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Watch This 4.6L Jeep Stroker Engine Make Solid Power That Would Have Your Jeep Roasting Mudders

We all get hung up on engines that makes a zillion horsepower or are made of solid billet and cost as much as a small aircraft. The nature of this stuff is to zone in on the shiny stuff that makes...

Christmas By Firelight: Hoonigan Has Your Christmas Background Here, With Music And Hoonicorn Flames!

In a few short days, it’ll be Christmastime. The family will gather, the food will be served, the presents will be unwrapped and joy will be had throughout the world. And if your Christmas...

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Decade of Spills: Jet Carnage Action Video From Indy 2011 – A Friday Night Mess

It had been many years since the NHRA had jet cars at a national event so when the sanctioning body announced that they would have jets at the US Nationals to close the show on Friday and Saturday...

Lo Car VS Hi Car: Can A $450 Brake Upgrade Hang With A $4,500 Brake Upgrade?

There are certain truths that we hold to be self evident here at BangShift. The first is that physics and the laws therein are pretty damned accurate. The second is that hot rodders always want to...

Video: Check Out These 10 Amazing Engines From The 2019 PRI Show – Horsepower!

The 2019 PRI show was packed to the rafters with new parts, cool race cars, industry celebrities, and activity galore, but the most important thing it was packed with? Awesome engines! This video...

Caption This: “Engine Test Successful. Engine Replacement Required.”

Here’s a bit of insight into my former life as a helicopter tech: For each maintenance-required item, a code in the form of a symbol was entered on the paperwork each aircraft carried in a...

Practical Application: Can the EcoVette Actually Meet The 40MPG Goal In Traffic?

A little while ago, we tipped you off to a project involving a C5 Corvette with a six-speed and the promise of this car making the 40 miles per gallon mark. For comparison, that would equal the same...

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Reindeer Games: This Fun and Goofy Video From Holley Is ALL About The Tire Smoke!

Every year Holley Performance comes up with a funny video for their “Happy Holley Days” promotion which carries the company through the Christmas season. This year is no different and...

Cringeworthy: This VICE Documentary Looks Into New York City’s Car Culture And Is Hard To Swallow

New York City has always been fascinating to me personally with regard to cars. It’s this place with millions of people and yet it has always had a KILLER car culture. Guys in the different...

BangShift Movie Car Chase: Chevrolet Corvette Stingray vs. De Tomaso Pantera in “Challenge”

An early C3 Stingray Corvette and a De Tomaso Pantera, tearing up the roads near Asheville, North Carolina in the early 1970s…doesn’t sound too implausible, does it? If it weren’t...

One Step Too Far: Engine Failure At 50 PSI For This Camaro!

The current automatic power recipe goes a little like this: find LS engine in junkyard. Swap cam, valve springs. Add boost. Done. I’m simplifying it a bit but you know what I mean…the...

Goodwood Video: Here’s The 10 Best Moments Of The Last 10 Years At Goodwood

There have been hundreds of different cars that have run up the hill at Lord March’s house in England during the Goodwood Festival of Speed and the Goodwood Revival over the last decade. The...

Classic YouTube: A Collection Of Nasty Fox Bodies From 1999

It is a damn good thing that I never bothered to buy any kind of video recording device in 1999. That was the year I left home, and found myself more-or-less unsupervised, off of any kind of leash,...

Squeezing The Six: More In-Depth Work With Uncle Tony’s Slant Six Build!

It’s a Friday night, you’re standing around the car that’s got something torn down to be fixed, you’re probably enjoying a nice sip of something, and the BS is starting to get...