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Video: Have Uncle Tony And Pals Made It To The Bottom Of Why Hydraulic Flat Tappet Lifters Suck Now?
It is one of the biggest and frankly frightening parts of budget engine building these days. The seemingly awful failure rate of hydraulic lifters after cam swaps or in fresh builds. It has...
Make A Press Form To Emboss Sheet Metal With Only A Grinder, File, And Shop Press.
Wait, I lied. He uses a welder too, in order to weld a brace on the die and to weld together the female side of this press form. But in theory, you could bolt those parts together, it would just take...
Fire Safety: Finnegan Is Making Sure The Caddy Project Has All The Fire Protection It Needs
Anyone who knows me knows that racing safety is a very important thing to me, and that fire systems in particular are something I’m pretty passionate about. My friend Lyle Barnett was involved...
Adding Lights To Your Garage Door Can Make Your Garage So Much Nicer To Work In
The average garage has some fluorescent lights hung on the ceiling if you’re lucky, and while they may provide “okay” lighting while the garage is closed, opening the overhead door...
Custom Console Build: Step By Step Building A Console For A 1971 GMC Jimmy. This Thing Is Trick!
Another awesome project how to from Make It Kustom is right here. And if you are looking for some inspiration and technique to make your next console, then this is the video for you. I’ll be...
Edd China’s Workshop Diaries: His Custom Mini May Look Like An Orange, But It Handles Like A Lemon!
I’ve seen photos of his Outspan Orange before but had no idea what was really going on underneath this thing or how it came to be. It turns out these were promotional vehicles used to get people in...
FREE LIVESTREAM: Door Wars Footbrake Door Car Drag Racing Is On This Weekend.
Door Wars promises to be one hell of a drag race coming out of the famed Maple Grove Raceway. This is a cool event, featuring nothing but door cars and nothing but footbrake racing. No trans brakes...
Could This Little English Wheel From Eastwood Be The Perfect Sheet Metal Tool?
(Words by Charles Wickam) If you’re following along like every good Bangshifter does, you read the blog and watched the Make It Kustom video about English Wheel basics. Wait, what ?!?! You...
Alex Taylor’s Quest For The Sixes Means Lots Of Work In Little Time For The 1955 Chevrolet
These are the videos you have all been waiting for, the ones where the giant thrash in the final days of the 1955 Chevrolet build happen. There was a lot of trick stuff happening in very little time,...
Is It Bad To Start Off A Project Car Revival By Cutting It In Half? If So, Puddin’s Fab Shop Has Started Off In The Wrong Directi
When Charles sent me this blog item I had to laugh because I’ve been watching Puddin’s Fab Shop on and off for a while. He’s funnier than hell, actually builds some entertaining...
Watch Gary Ormsby Suffer A Massive Crash At Brainerd In 1989 – Also, His Sonoma Carnage!
Few people took a more tumultuous route to a top fuel world championship than Gary Ormsby. The California racer had been in the seat of top fuel cars for 25 years as the 1989 season dawned and his...
Metal Shaping 101: How To Make EASY Paper Patterns For Curved Panels !!
There is no shortage of metal shaping opportunities on a hot rod, race car, or custom project. It all just depends on what your vision is for the finished project, but regardless there is some sort...
Insane Record Run: Ride With Travis Pastrana As He Tears up Mt Washington – Bonkers!
This is one of those ride along videos that made us grip the arms of the chair about 10 times. The Mt Washington hill climb has been around something like a century or more. It has been on and off...
