Category Archive: ENGINES, Videos
Watch A 519ci Ford SOHC Hemi Roar Past 7500 RPM on the Dyno!
The Ford SOHC Hemi is one of the most vaunted and amazing products of the muscle car era. It is also the ultimate expression of Ford’s FE engine family. The wild cast iron heads were developed...
Have Interest In The Slant Six? Here’s Solid, In-Depth Information On The Leaning Tower Of Power!
Until 1987, the Slant Six was Chrysler’s go-to workhorse. The 318 made for a nice V8. The 360 provided grunt. Anything else provided thrills and smiles. But the Slant Six, be it the 170 cubic...
Quick Tech: Keep Your Older Fuel System Happy With A Tip From Uncle Tony!
We have had a pretty broad selection of cars that have come and gone at BangShift Mid-West ever since we moved into the place a few years ago. We have our late-model machines that are fuel-injected,...
Video: Watch A Twin Turbo 507ci Cadillac Air Boat Engine Get Tuned With Holley EFI – Frankenstein Greatness!
There’s no doubt about the fact that the EFI revolution is on these days. From the drags to the mud bogs and as this video proves, to air boats, everyone is jumping on the wagon of fuel...
Trabant Engine Fun: Let’s Watch The Rebuild Of The Pluggy Little Two-Cylinder Trabant Screamer
“I’m holding half the engine with one hand, that’s how light this stupid thing is.” More funny lines from our hero who we showed you tearing down the engine in his classic...
Mini Van: A B18 Swapped Mini…er, Van Is An Awesome Combination!
Minivan: A rolling breadbox best suited to shuffling about seven people around in some kind of comfort until the smell of stale French fries becomes too overwhelming to tolerate, at which point the...
Awesome Video: Watch This Dude Disassemble A Trabant Engine – Fun Stuff From An Admitted Non-Expert!
“I’m not a mechanic, this video is made for entertainment, not instruction.” That’s one of the best lines from this great video that shows a guy (an American guy)...
Watch Jesse Warren Make A 1,910hp Dyno Pull In His 6.0L Ford At UCC
When it comes to engines that wear their reputation around their next like a 50b weight, the 6.0L Power Stroke diesel is one of them. The early versions of the engines were flawed and suffered many...
4 Minute Thrash: Watch A Classic Customized 1957 Harley Get Completely Torn Down And Rebuilt In Minutes
Normally when we are showing you a cool Redline Rebuild video from Hagerty it is centered around an engine and just an engine. This time though, the engine is a part of the whole package as you are...
Cool Video: Diagnosing And Dyno Testing A 1,000hp Big Rig – Solving Fuel System Problems
There’s just something about seeing a hot rodded big rig on the dyno that gets our dander up. In this case it is a Peterbilt at the famed Pittsburgh Power company in Pennsylvania. The truck has...
Pull Start Pickup: This Dodge Ram 50 Is A Predator-Powered Freak Show!
Of all of the soft spots my heart has for specific models of vehicles, the Dodge Ram 50 might be the strangest yet most easily explained: it was the first vehicle I spent solid amounts of wheel time...
Dyno Catastrophe: Watch This Diesel Truck Explode And Burn At The Ultimate Callout Challenge
This is literally as bad as it gets. You are going to see the monstrously powerful DRD Diesel built pickup truck on the chassis dyno at the Ultimate Callout Challenge event in Indiana suffer a simply...
Two Wheels And One Cylinder: Time Lapse Rebuild Of A Kawasaki KE100 Engine Is Awesome To Watch
The ring-a-ting-ting of a two stroke engine is really something that fires the synapses of any gearhead’s brain. It is the sound of fun, really. Go karts, dirt bikes, and weird homebuilt...
