Category Archive: Apex Video, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, ENGINE, ENGINES, Tech Stories, Videos
Buick Straight Eight Rebuild Update: The Valves Get Installed and A New Project Emerges
Last we left you, Davin had made progress on the bottom end of the Hagerty Buick Straight Eight build and things were looking pretty good. He got the crank in, camshaft installed, and even test...
Classic YouTube: The Callaway C6 SuperNatural Corvette LM – Swinging For The Fences In 1994!
In 1989, Callaway Cars did what many consider the impossible: they made a C4 Corvette run 254 miles per hour. The “SledgeHammer” Corvette is still one of the most wicked machines...
Classic YouTube: The 1965 MotorTrend 500 At Riverside – Gurney And Foyt Battling It Out!
It’s hard to not look back at old NASCAR footage and not muse about how the days of racing real “stock” cars are long gone, isn’t it? After the late 1980s, all the cars seem...
Double Down: Watch This Naturally Aspirated Jeep Inline Six Make 395hp – Twice The Stock Rating!
It’s one thing to build a hot rodded version of a cool engine. It’s another thing to combine all your skills as a fabricator, engineer, and engine builder to take a platform and double...
Godzilla Roars! Watch This 7.3L Ford V8 Make 789hp Naturally Aspirated As It Awaits A Blower
Ok, this is really starting to get awesome. Brian Wolfe the legendary Ford engineer, drag racer, and blue oval horsepower maker has really started to stand on his 7.3L Godzilla development engine and...
Hitting Peak: This 1994 Video Showing Off The New S-10 and GMC Sonoma Represents The Little Truck At Its Best
Small trucks have always been an interesting things to us. Obviously we are back in the middle of a small truck war as we told you about the new Ranger Tremor that Ford just released but the small...
Listen To The Man: John Force Talks About Missing Indy, Not Racing In 2020, and More
It was and is one of the biggest stories in the world of NHRA drag racing. When John Force announced that he was parking his racing operation for the balance of 2020 the whole world was wondering...
Technical Zen: This Guy Explains How He Created A Digital Dash For His Eagle!
Sometimes, the stock gauges in a car just suck. They don’t have a full compliment of useful gauges. The speedometer was woefully unprepared for what you had intentions for, or worse, was one of...
Classic YouTube: Maynard Troyer’s Monster Rollover At The 1971 Daytona 500
Maynard Troyer’s NASCAR career was short. He only had two active years, 1971 and 1973. Two years before calling it quits seems strange, but not so strange as the gap year in between, right?...
Classic YouTube: The Pilot Of This BO-105 Helicopter Has No Fear Whatsoever!
I’m sure I’m gonna hear from a lot of people I used to work with for saying this, but it’s a reality: not every helicopter pilot is a great pilot. Safe, sure. Competent, absolutely....
How To Sell A 1965 Chevrolet Impala: Stick It On A Rock In The Middle Of The Surf!
Selling a car on a television commercial isn’t as easy as it looks. Just plopping the car down and rattling off what it does have and how much it costs isn’t exciting. Exciting might...
Psychosteer: The 1984 Cadillac Eldorado ETC Has To Be The Most Unhappy Car In A Corner!
Until the Cadillac CTS series of cars appeared, nobody should have ever looked at a Cadillac product and thought, “You know, I bet that would make a bitchin’ corner carver!” I have...
Making Big Power With A 500 Inch Caddy! GM’s Biggest Factory Offering Makes More Power Than You’d Think Stock, But What Will Some Parts Do For It?
I’m a huge fan of 472 and 500 inch Cadillac engines. I’ve been a part of what would become the world’s fastest Cadillac powered vehicle, I’ve built Caddy powered street cars,...
