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FREE LIVE NHRA Divisional Racing Action: Division 7 Lucas Oil Drag Racing At Firebird Raceway – Friday

Free live drag racing starts here and continues all weekend long from the NHRA Regional at Firebird Raceway in Arizona. We’re talking all kinds of Sportsman Drag racing which means wheels up Stock...

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More Radial vs The World Qualifying From Lights Out 17 at South Georgia Motorsports Park

If you haven’t been watching the livestream here everyday, you might have missed RVW qualifying from yesterday so here’s a highlight video you can check out to see all the action and...

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Like A Good Neighbor, Finnegan Is There. Check Out The Two Day Roll Bar Install That Finnegan And Joe Are Doing In This Chevy II.

If you are going to go quicker than 11.50 seconds in the quarter mile, and you are doing that in a classic car, then you are going to need a roll bar in that car. If you have one, you can then go as...

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Add Sensors Without Cutting Your Harness! The Holley EFI Power Tap Explained. Technology Is A Wonderful Thing!

Sometimes it boggles my mind when folks start cutting and hacking and rigging up electrical systems in their projects, only to find out that the solution to their problem or dilemma was right in...

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Look at All This Carnage! Cleetus McFarland’s Limo Engine Get’s Pulled Apart At Harrell Engine and Dyno, Plus Mechanical Fuel Inject Tech!

I’ve never known anyone that broke more stuff than Cleetus. He’s got a special talent for flinging the rods out of stuff, and I’m not even talking about the stuff he breaks on...

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This Is Italy’s ONLY Indy 500 Winning Car: The 1938 Maserati 8CTF takes on the Goodwood Revival.

With all of Italy’s accomplishments in motorsports, it is kind of hard to believe that the only italian car ever to win the Indy 500 is this 1938 Maserati. I guess it kind of makes sense since...

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LS Fest 2016: Speed, Steering And Stopping…The Baer Brakes/Super Chevy 3S Challenge!

Speed, steering and stopping. Sounds easy, right? That’s the basic rundown of racing…you get up to speed as fast as possible, corner without balling the car up, and stop before you test...

Trans Tech Tuesday: How Does A Manual Transmission Work Anyway?

Don’t laugh. There are a lot, and I mean A LOT of people who have no clue how a manual transmission actually works. And we’re not judging them for it. After all, it’s not like most...

Zora Would Be Proud: Check Out This C4 Corvette Hazing Out The Skidpad At Bindoon!

Right now the automotive media is soiling their drawers over what is known as “Project Emperor”, a.k.a. the mid-engined C8 Corvette. Yeah, we know that mid-engine ‘Vettes have been...

Screaming Passengers Edition? Watch the Alfa Romeo Guilia Quadrifoglio Tear The Nurburgring A New One!

We know that Nurburgring lap times are essentially a gigantic measuring contest for the world’s manufacturers and don’t mean jack squat to all but the hardest of the hardcore racer owners...

This Modified Eldorado Looks Angry, But Does It Have Bite To Its Bark? [Probably Not]

Before they introduced the CTS-V in 2004, no one could ever accuse Cadillac of building an aggressively styled car. And while this 1991 Eldorado “GT” likely isn’t really a performance car with...

Autocross Action From Holley’s LS Fest 2016 Starts Right Here

The best of the best are on site at Holley’s LS Fest in Bowling Green Kentucky, going for the overall championship that rewards the one car who’s driver put it through all the paces...

Thermite Weld Porn: Welding Railroad Tracks Is Awesome

I’ve seen, and done, a lot of different welding including some pretty heaving industrial and construction stuff. But this is a whole different deal and it’s bad ass. These two guys have a...

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Carburetor Tech: How To Tune Your Edelbrock Performer Series Carb

This video from the crew at Jegs is going to show you just how to make your Edelbrock Performer Series carburetor perform at it’s best. It covers Idle Mixture, Choke, Metering Rods, Jets,...

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Watch A Guy Drive A $2.5-Million Aston Martin DB4 GT Like He Stole It And Then Bop The Tire Wall At The Goodwood Revival

There are few things more fun to watch than a legit slice and dice road racing battle. If you take that action and add in some insanely valuable and iconic cars you have an even better time! Last...

Watch An Outlaw 10.5 Car Run 4.18 and Stop The Clocks On The Rear Tires!

(By Jason Mazzotta) – One of the most exciting aspects of outlaw racing is the wheelie. Whether it is a Drag Radial car that launches and puts it on the bumper, or a twin turbo outlaw 10.5 car...

Giant Powerstroke Ford Nitrous Explosion On The Starting Line!

So apparently this Ford 6.0 Powerstroke is having some trouble starting behind the water box on the starting line at Salt Lake City. Well some of that may have been due to the nitrous that was being...

You Can Buy This Rare Dutch Sports Car On CraigsList

In the last two decades, the Dutch have made a couple of bids to enter the sports car realm. The first came from Spyker, a firm that built high-performance sports cars and even competed in Formula 1...

BangShift’s Class-By-Class Preview of Hot Rod Drag Week 2016

Hot Rod Magazine’s Drag Week is  the most intense form of street-car racing in the world. The competition pits street cars, some of which really push the boundaries of that phrase, to run...

LS Fest Outtake: The Crunched Camaro That Was Still Going To Race

All Adam Prante wanted to do was to come down to Bowling Green and have a good time at the 2016 LS Fest with his late-model fifth-gen Camaro SS. Entered into the Grand Champion set of events, he had...