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The Parting Shift: Ever Heard Someone Beat Through The Gears With A GMC V6?

One of the biggest mysteries that came out of my time at “the yard” involved a late 1970s GMC truck. The squarebody was as they usually were in the later 1990s at the time in the Pacific...

Alloy, Ahoy! Let MAHLE Motorsport Educate You On The Difference Between 2618 and 4032 Alloy!

Forged pistons are forged pistons, right? Smack them out, machine them to round, and ship them to the customer. That’s the long and short of it, right? What’s so hard about this!? As it...

Aftermath and Insight: The Story Behind The Master Shredder Dyno Explosion and The True Level Of Destruction Is Amazing

This is one of the most stunning “follow-up” videos we have ever seen. When the Master Shredder truck from Industrial Injection blew up on the chassis dyno this year, it did so in a way...

Watch Noonan Race Engineering’s Screw Blown Billet LS Engine Make More Than 2,100hp On A Safe Dyno Tune

We remember when the crew at Noonan Race Engineering came to PRI a few years ago and displayed this incredible all-billet LS engine that was wearing a massive screw supercharger. It was a show...

Do Gen 3 Hemis Make More Power With An Aftermarket Cam? Of Course. But Which One Makes More? Early or Late Gen 3? Watch

With incredibly rare exception, swapping out the stock camshaft in an engine for one with more lift, duration, and different cam timing will make more power. But do similar camshaft upgrades make...

Quick Dyno Test: What Effect Do The Height Of Hilborn Injection Stacks Have On A 572ci Hemi?

As we all know, the smallest changes all have a measurable impact on how an engine runs, how an engine performs, and ultimately how much power it makes and where that power is made in the range of...

Breaking News: Your Briggs and Stratton Will Not Run So Great On Gunpowder

The Warped Perception YouTube channel is pretty neat. This guy does some of the most weird, fun, and off the wall mechanical experiments that you can possibly dream up and some, like this one, we had...

Check Out Ryan Tureck Getting His 11,000 RPM Judd V10 Dyno Tested In England – This Is Going In A Supra!

If you follow Ryan Tureck, you know the guy has always managed to build some cool and different cars in which to attack the drift course with. This guy has had multiple 1,000hp drift beasts and...

Hot Or Not? Dyno Testing The New Gen III Edelbrock Hemi Head Against Factory Stockers

Loads and loads of people in the high performance aftermarket have long been looking at the Gen III hemi as the sleeping giant in the room. Yes, the LS and now LT engines have a massive share of the...

Hot Rodding Is Fun Video: The Hagerty Straight Eight Buick Build Get Attention – More Fun Around The Shop

Hot rodding is fun because of so many reasons but the main one is the small personal challenges that every hot rodder deals with along the way. When you get your nifty speed parts and they...

Junkyard L99 V8 Gets Nitrous Thrown At It. Will It Live?!?!? This Baby LT1 Is Only 4.3 Liters!

Back in the day when everyone wanted at LT1 to swap into their hot rod, many unknowing folks looked at donor Chevrolet Caprices and thought they were all LT1 equipped when in fact they often had 4.3L...

Speedy Swap: This 1968 Meyers Manx Has EcoTec Power And Has To Be Fun As Hell

Engine swaps have been the lifeblood of hot rodding for near a century now and while we tend to totally freak out over the ones that make huge horsepower or engines that seem like they...

Horsepower Video: Don’t Fear The Valve – Watch This Boosted Vortec 4200 Inliner Pick Up Big Power On The Dyno

The Nelson family out of Pennsylvania is awesome. Chances are, if you read BangShift you have seen or heard of their exploits on Drag Week, at the former Ohio Mile, the Grassroots Motorsports $2000...

Supercharged Suicide: Adding A Blower To A Hot-Rodded Power Wheels

Behold, the blower. If turbochargers are the thinking man’s way of increasing the air in the cylinders on each stroke, and if nitrous is witchcraft, then the supercharger is the blunt-force...

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