Category Archive: Tech Stories
AN Fittings 101: Get Your Hose On! What You Need To Know Before Getting Started On Your Car.
AN fittings are one of those parts that everyone loves to have on their cars, but not everyone understands. Sure, it’s a type of fitting for hoses that may be used for virtually any fluid, but...
Driveway Tech: How To Tune Your Carb Like A Pro With An Air/Fuel Ratio Gauge – We Show You How!
(Words and photos by Scott Liggett) – If you have ever tuned a car with EFI, one of your basic tools used is an AFR gauge. Did you know you could use the same AFR gauge to tune a car with a...
Basic Tech: Rebuilding A Rochester B Carburetor
Goliath, our lumbering 1966 Chevy C50 project truck, is equipped with a 292ci straight six engine. That workaday mill is not exactly what you’d call a performance piece in stock condition. That...
No Voodoo… Just Voltage: The Shocking Truth About Alternators
For some reason, there are several systems in your average hot rod that seem to baffle folks. Electrical systems seem to be one of those, and at the heart of every street electrical system is a...
We Test The NVX JAD900.5 Amp And NSW102 Subwoofers: Serious Bang For Your Buck!
Do you like your music clean and loud? We do too, and thats why we tested out the NVX JAD900.5 5-channel amp and NSW102 Subwoofers to see if they could give us good clean sound that even our old tow...
How To Disassemble, Clean, and Rebuild A Muncie 4-Speed Transmission
The name BangShift.com didn’t come by accident. When trying to figure out a name for the site, I had a giant list of possibilities, but it was not by accident that BangShift was one of them. I...
Harmonic Balancer 101: The Fun And Exciting World Of Vibration Damping
You know that big spinning thing on the front of your crankshaft? The one that holds the pulley for your fan belt? Some people refer to them as balancers, and others call them dampeners or dampers....
Hacks of the Week: Hose Clamp Lowering Kit and Vice Grip Engine Mount
The only proper way to lower a car is to use the proper pieces: lowering springs, spindles, etc. But for every car you’ll see done right, I’ll find you ten that have been done in a...
Water Pump 101: What’s Really Going On With The Water Inside Your Engine
When Larson and I were deciding on parts for the World’s Quickest Street Car, the S10 pickup we took on Drag Week, we had to put some serious thought not only into making it fast, but more...
BangShift Tech: We Revamp Our Entire Dash Using Auto Meter Gauges To Replace No Name Junk That Failed – Bonus BangShifty Tricks Applied
Let me start by laying out the scenario for you: There’s pressure to get your project done, whether it be due to the end of the driving season looming (If you’re from a part of the...
Y Ask Y, Part 1: We Build A Big Inch Stroker LS3 So We Can Make Big Power With A Supercharger!!
(Ok, this guy seems a little TOO excited about the prospect of adding a Vortech supercharger to the stroker LS3, but who can blame him?) Words & Photos By: Richard Holdener – OnTheDyno.com...
More 4-Cylinder Briggs And Stratton Build Videos: This Sucker Is Amazing And Is Almost Done
It’s Day 3 of our series on the build of what we assume to be the only 4-cylinder Briggs and Stratton engine in the world. These guys have taken 4 Briggs engines, and chopped, cut, welded,...
Bottom Dollar Blazer – Episode 7: It’s Time To Start Thinking Paint, BangShift Style.
Well, it’s been a while since I posted my last update to the Blazer project. Class is wrapped up at Assabet Valley Tech, and I got a ton of the grunt work done. Now it’s time to think...
LS Power Improvements: How The Wally’s World GTO Got A Bunch More Ponies
It’s been a while since we did an update on the Wally’s World GTO Project, mostly because we’ve been slacking, and also because all the new horsepower has been a lot of fun out on...