Category Archive: ENGINES, Videos
Nelson Racing unveils 2000 Horsepower Twin Turbo Supercar #004
If 572 cubic inches of twin-turbo Big Block Chevrolet making 2000 horsepower doesn’t excite you, you should be checked for a pulse. And if having all that power stuffed into a sinister black...
SEMA Sneak Peek Video of GM’s SEMA 2010 Display Vehicles
GM has let us have a sneak peek at some of the cars and trucks debuting at SEMA 2010 in Las Vegas next week, and lucky for us it’s on video. BangShift.com will be at SEMA all week to bring you...
Detroit Speed Open House this Weekend: Plus their Chevy II Test Car Video
If you are going to be in the Charlotte, North Carolina, area this weekend, you are going to want to keep your Friday night open for the Detroit Speed Open House and BBQ. Just a hop, skip, and a jump...
Video: The Winged Express pulls off its craziest burnout yet!
Wild Willie Borsch and his famed Winged Express Fuel Altered were always known for smokey, sidewall deflecting, sideways burnouts, so it’s only fitting that the legend continues today. At this...
Video: Bill Caswell to Build Baja BMW at SEMA, We Help
Our rally pal Bill Caswell, of BMW jumping, crashing, and hooning fame will be at the 2010 SEMA show in the Miller booth. Caswell will be transforming a BMW into a Baja 1000 competition vehicle which...
More Diesel Death Video: A Land Rover Smoke Machine
We can’t help ourselves. After seeing the Toyota van run itself to death we kept on searching for videos and found one featuring a Land Rover that had just been started for the first time after...
Not Green: A Runaway Toyota Diesel Dies In a Massive Cloud of Smoke
The runaway diesel engine is an interesting thing. The condition can be brought on by a number of factors. In this case it was apparently caused by overfilling the engine with oil. With no throttle...
Video Update: Spectre Speedliner goes 415 mph at Mike Cook’s Landspeed Shootout
A few weeks ago we posted this item, but now there’s some cool video (below) to see. Already the fastest Cadillac powered vehicle in history, the Spectre Speedliner just went 415.7 miles per...
CackleFest Video from the 2010 California Hot Rod Reunion at AutoClub Famoso Raceway
If you saw our live broadcast of all the racing action at the 19th Annual NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion presented by Auto Club of Southern California, and Justice Brothers, you know that Nostalgia...
Vintage Flopper Video Bonanza: 1980s Funny Car Racing From Englishtown and New England Dragway
Dean Papadeas is a name that many avid drag racing fans don’t know but they should. Papadeas was the man who single-handedly changed the way that drag races were filmed and presented on...
Freakshow Video: A Monster Truck and a Jet Dragster Duke it Out on the Strip
When Berserko Bobby Doerrer called us up and said that he was helping out with a jet car that had just matched raced a monster truck at Palm Beach International Raceway, we asked him to place his...
Wild Video: The 2010 World Power Wheel Standing Championship From Byron Dragway
The 16th annual World Power Wheel Standing Championship is in the books. The brain child of Byron Dragway owner/operator Ron Leek, the contest has grown from small freak show to massive drag racing...