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How Dangerous Is A 10hp Belt Grinder? The Fireball Tools 5HP Go Kart Belt Sander Is A Scary Machine Now!

The Fireball tools go-kart belt sander is something special, that’s for sure, and with 5 horsepower you’d think that it could hog away any material needed. And it does. But more power is...

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Painting Raised Letter Valve Covers Can Be A Pain, But When Done Right The Results Are Worth The Steps Taken

We’ve all owned a set of valve covers or a timing cover or some other automotive part that has raised letters on them. And sometimes they have a different color of paint on those raised...

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Nitro Video: FUEL ALTERED QUALIFYING FROM THE 2026 IHRA SEASON OPENER AT DARANA MOTORSPORTS PARK

We shared Funny Car action from the IHRA Season Opener at Darana Motorsports Park, formerly GALOT, yesterday and loved the IHRA Nitro action. Fuel Altereds are part of the Nitro show as well, along...

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TX2K26 Day 4 From The Texas Motorplex: The FASTEST Drag Pass in TX2K History & Leroy goes #1

Here’s the Day 4 video from The Texas Motorplex and TX2K26! If you missed any of the previous videos, just click the link below to check them out too. With the sale of Houston Raceway Park three...

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Pavement Pounder Events Announces “Motor City to Wheel Hub Live” 2026 Road Trip And We’re Excited To Be Their Official Media Partner!

Pavement Pounder Events is back in 2026 in a HUGE way, with an incredibly exciting road trip event that will be starting in the Motor City and heading to Wheel Hub Live! That’s right, you get...

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Cordless Ratchet Testing And Review: The New DeWALT XR And New Milwaukee Ratchets Face Off

It’s time for some more tool testing and this time it is one of my favorite cordless tools, even though it took forever for me to start using one. I, like many of you out there, seem to reach for...

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Drag Challenge 2019: Australia’s Grand Drag Racing Tour Kickoff Party!

As the leaves continue to fall and the frost continues to form on our quickly freezing arses, the Australians are just cracking their necks and preparing for the summer racing season....

Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: Post-SEMA Randomness

It’s been a week filled with travel, photography, glamour and cheap dinners, cars and reunions with friends and associates. And mercifully, it’s over. My poor work boots have never been...

SEMA 2019 Gallery: Morning Roaming, Including The Optima Alley

Is there such a thing as SEMA hangover? There’s the SEMA plague, which I think I managed to avoid this year. There’s the SEMA crunch, which I’m not going to be in danger of finding...

Vintage Truck Project Perfection: This 1946 Federal Truck Is All There And Begging For A Restoration

In a never ending bid to cause me personal harm through an automotive purchase, my pal Alan Reinhart threatened to buy this awesome 1946 Federal Truck. I’ll give the guy credit, he has good...

A Legend Abroad: This Story Of Roland Leong Tuning An English Nitro Funny Car Is Spectacular

(Photo: Dean Smith/Automobile Magazine) – When Roland Leong fell in love with drag racing as a kid in Hawaii, he could have never known that the sport would provide him a life and a living for...

Spills, Chills, and Destruction Video: This Is The Wildest Collection Of Pulling Fails We Have Ever Seen

Now this right here is an all-star compilation of wackiness. You are going to watch a seemingly endless chain of pulling crashes, pulling explosions, and pulling failures that include classes...

BangShift Project Files: Not One, But Two Of The Mythical 1977 Chevrolet Chevelle SE Unicorns!

A couple of years ago, while spending the early-morning hours buried somewhere in the depths of the Internet, I came across a car that I had never seen or heard of before…and that rarely...

The World Street Nationals Is LIVE From Orlando! Watch All The Action LIVE Right Here!

This year marks the 26th running of the World Street Nationals in Orlando and you can watch all the action, start to finish, right here! The history of this event, the records that have been set, and...

Build & Battle 3: Gymkhana GRID Challenge Builds With A 350Z And A 3rd Gen Camaro!

Remember about a decade ago, when those early Ken Block videos hit the Internet, back when he was driving Subarus around an airport somewhere in the desert? Those were badass videos. And if...

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BangShift Question Of The Day: EV Hot Rodding…Do You See It As The Future?

It wasn’t the biggest story of SEMA…that had to have gone to the Quintin Brothers’ Challenger theft/pursuit/recovery tale that led to a wicked, 1,000 horsepower Dodge with body...

From Weak To Wicked: A Young Gun Building A V8 Mazda Drift Truck From Scratch!

If you are worried about young automotive enthusiasts or, more precisely, the abilities and will of the young automotive enthusiast, don’t. Just come to terms with the fact that they might not...

SEMA 2019 New Products: Mahle Motorsports’ New Pistons For Ford, GM, VW and BMW/Toyota!

Mahle Motorsports is all about making your engine as stout as it can be. They want the slugs that you intend to run in your engine to be the most stout pieces in your drivetrain. They know their...

Watch This Awesome Old Chevrolet Sleeper Van Take On A Shelby GT500 – Does It Kill The Mustang?

We loves us some sleepers around here and while the rear tires and exhaust note of this van may be a bit of a tell, we’re still enamored with the unique primered box on wheels. This awesome old...

Rough Start: 1974 Ford Thunderbird – Needs More Blower Through The Hood.

The profile of the machine cuts like a knife as it sits on a dark, cold and rainy Detroit night. In the few faint glimpses of light, the red paint flashes on an otherwise equally cold and dark...