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FREE LIVESTREAM: IHRA Outlaw Nitro Racing Series Action From Virginia Motorsports Park

It’s time for more IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series racing action baby! They are back at it, coming to you from IHRA Virginia Motorsports Park in Dinwiddie Virginia, where racers are going to be battling...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Division 2 Divisional Lucas Oil Sportsman Drag Racing At South Georgia Motorsports Park – Friday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 2! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. If you like Sportsman Drag...

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The TRUTH About Oil Additives Revealed, With Real Test Results From The Motor Oil Geek

There are too many Oil Treatments and Additives to count nowadays, and many of them make claims that are hard to believe. Over the years there have been so many of them and while some have good...

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Aftermarket Gossip: Is a Manual C8 Corvette Actually Happening? TREMEC’s Aftermarket Chief Tells All!

I realize the numbers are small, but there are people out there that would like a C8 Corvette with a clutch pedal. And as a guy who drives a stick shift car most days, I understand the allure. But I...

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First Drive Video: Westen Champlin’s Cummins Swapped Rolls Royce Is Something Special. Absurd, But Special.

I like a good Cummins as much as the next guy, but this is a bit over the top. Of course it won’t surprise you since it is coming from Westen Champlin, but at the same time it is taking the...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: Wednesday Testing from Virginia Motorsports Park with IHRA’s Outlaw Nitro Series

If you are fired up about the 2026 IHRA Outlaw Nitro season, you are not alone! The second race of the season is coming up at Virginia Motorsports Park and we can’t wait to see what’s in...

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Moroso Tech Video: Here’s The Theory And Practice Of Oil Pan Trap Door Baffling

It’s Wednesday so we figure that the collective brain of BangShift nation is firing on all cylinders today and is ready to learn. We came across this killer video from Moroso that explains the...

This 216ci Pontiac SD4 Racing Engine Makes More Than 500hp Naturally Aspirated!

Yesterday it was an 800hp, 301ci, naturally aspirated V8 engine and today it is a 500hp, 216ci naturally aspirated four banger. I guess I am on an NA kick these days or like every day I am on an...

Best of 2018: This 1936 Chevrolet Standard Coupe Pick-Up Is A Vision To The Past

I could’ve sat there in the grass for an hour, just staring at what I was looking at. This could’ve easily been the 1930s…there was no noise except for my breathing and a slight...

Merry Christmas From All Of Us At BangShift.com!

On behalf of Brian Lohnes, Chad Reynolds, our families and our BangShift.com sponsors, we would like to wish all of our friends and you, our readers, a very Merry Christmas today. We are going to be...

Best of 2018: Somebody Please Get This 1985 Cadillac Coupe de Ville Racer Back On The Track!

We love the freaks here at BangShift! Ok, maybe it’s more that I personally love the freaks, but one look at this 1985 Cadillac Coupe de Ville and you should at least understand why I’m...

Best of 2018: This Guy Drove Over 20,000 Miles In A TVR Chimera To Hit The Most Northern And Southern Pubs!

Sometimes you hop in the car and take off with no destination in mind…you just drive for the hell of it, stopping at places along the way and generally enjoying the trip, not caring about the...

Best of 2018: This Chevrolet Lumina Z34 Has The One Major Problem Fixed!

(There’s no time like the present to RWD swap every FWD machine! -ed.) I never thought the Chevrolet Lumina looked bad as a two-door, especially as the Z34. Sloping, aero-ish nose? Spoiler and...

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Best of 2018: This Little Lady Is Restoring Her Own Volkswagen Beetle!

A common thread that pops up about once a month is how the car community is doomed because “young folk” aren’t into the hobby. “Young folk”, which essentially means...

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Best of 2018: Watch as Mario Racicot’s 24-Cylinder Freightliner Argosy Threatens To Take The Weight Sled Home!

Information on what you’re going to see here is thin, but here’s what we have: You’re looking at a 2014 Freightliner Argosy that started out as a glider truck…that means you...

Listen To These Old Diamond P Sports Music Beds And Smile Like Us!

So about a week ago I wandered into a YouTube channel that had virtually every awesome music bed from the old American Sports Cavalcade and Diamond P Sports days of television greatness in it....

Best of 2018: This V6, Rear-Drive Converted Dodge Charger Has Been Built Right!

(Photos: Brad Zeidler) What’s the basics of hot rodding? You take something nobody wanted, and you make it faster, better and desirable. It worked for old Fords in junkyards when hot-rodding...

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Best of 2018: Watch This Steam Tractor Pull A Lowboy Trailer With A Crawler Tractor On It Through An Intersection!

We have all been at a traffic light when a big rig comes around the corner with a lowboy style trailer hooked onto the fifth wheel and some sort of dreadfully heavy piece of equipment on its back....

Best Of 2018: 2018 Dodge Durango SRT: A Two-Step Program The Whole Family Can Enjoy

The sports-utility vehicle might have started off as a short pickup with a roof over the bed, but by the time I had become aware of cars, their role as a replacement for the venerable station wagon...

Best of 2018: The Lights Out 9 Crash The Whole World Has Been Talking About

DJ McCain and Jeffrey Schlein had one of the most memorable runs at Light Out 9. Unfortunately those memories were caused by some crazy carnage. McCain in a Datsun known as Bowser went into an insane...