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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Chassis Fabrication: Back In The Shop With Shannon Campbell For A New Build

Shannon Campbell is back at it after King of the Hammers in California, and despite breaking some stuff during the Race of Kings, he’s ready to get back at it with some new projects at the...

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Leah Pruett Makes Her Dodge TSR NHRA Top Fuel Return After Two-year Hiatus, Teams Up with Four-time Champ Matt Hagan at Season-opening NHRA Gatornationals

Leah Pruett makes her NHRA Top Fuel return, after a two-year break, at the upcoming NHRA Gatornationals on March 5-8 in the nitro-burning Tony Stewart Racing (TSR) Dodge dragster Pruett, a 12-time...

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Can Ryan Make This Fairmont Run 6’s In The 1/8 For Under 6K? How About Naturally Aspirated With A 5.0?

I love budget builds. Hell, everything I own is a budget build. But sometimes I think folks are just trying to make things harder on themselves. I mean Ryan’s mismatched Fairmont is a GREAT...

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Lights Out 17 Testing Livestream And Video: It’s Time For Radial Revolution 2026 At South Georgia Motorsports Park

It’s time for Lights Out 17, Winter’s favorite radial race, and thanks to NC Promoder we can all watch testing and highlights as Monday and Tuesday had teams doing shakedown hits to see...

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Save $800 With This Harbor Freight Tool Box Hack! Build Your Own Custom Big Box On The Cheap

Harbor Freight is now the largest retail tool store in the country, and for good reason. They have been offering tools at cheap prices for decades, but in recent years took full advantage of the...

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First Round 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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Caption This Photo: An Unfortunate And Highly Ironic Scene At BS Eastern World HQ

(Photo by Kerri Lohnes) – This horrifying scene greeted my wife as she entered my son Tom’s room yesterday. It was both hilarious and totally ironic. Obviously, I am a freak for the sport...

BangShift Question of the Day: What’s the Largest Engine You’ve Ever Hung Around With?

When Chad posted the photo of the incredibly huge turbocharger the other day, it got me thinking about the biggest engine I have ever been around. That monster is show below. It is a 600hp powerplant...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: Hot Rod Ford – The Swingin’ Demons (Year Unknown)

Here’s a good Rockabilly jam from a band called The Swingin’ Demons singing about a hot rod Ford. It is good Friday music because hopefully you’ll be cruising your own hot rod or at...

POWERSHIFT LIVE TONIGHT 6PM PACIFIC/9PM EASTERN – BRIAN AND CHAD TALK ABOUT ALL THE BANGSHIFTY NEWS OF THE WEEK AND MORE! – CLICK HERE TO WATCH

That’s right, we’re back with another weekly installment of Powershift, our live and totally interactive show that covers all the big news of the week. Chad and I are going to bring the...

BangShift Exclusive Video: Accufab Racing 5.4L Cobra Jet Engine Makes 1600 Horsepower!

We happened to stroll into Westech Performance Group the other day, and John Mihovetz and the Accufab crew were there testing a 5.4L Cobra Jet Engine. After exchanging the normal “They’ll...

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Criagslist Find: A Running Chevy Small Block Equipped With A Cool Old Magnacharger MC-220 Twin Blower And Dual Carbs!

If you are looking for the wildest induction setup we have ever seen, look no further because it is for sale on Craigslist in the Tulsa, Oklahoma. Thanks to a tip from BangShift reader Jack Wayne we...

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Caption These Photos: We Found A Prius Hearse Prowling The Highways Of California

If you’ve ever said that you wouldn’t be caught dead in Prius, make sure not to die in the Bakersfield, California area or else your last ride may actually be in one. I had forgotten...

RacingJunk Find: A Blown, Pro Street 1978 AMC Pacer X That We Put On Our DO WANT List!

If you are someone looking for attention, this is the way to get it. The 1978 AMC Pacer  shown below and in even more detail after you hit the link to the RacingJunk ad is a pretty unique machine....

Caption This Photo: What Were They Thinking? C10 Abuse Revealed Thanks To Comp Cams

They guys at Comp Cams, and Trent in particular, seem to post some of the craziest stuff on their Facebook page, including this hideous C10 Chevy pickup. Yes, it is a C10. And it’s horrible. I...

Event Coverage: Viva Las Vegas, The Road Trip, The Cars, The Girls

BangShifter Newell Ruggles sent us some great photos from Viva Las Vegas 2013, along with his adventure in getting there behind the wheel of the “Black Widow” 1960 Plymouth Valiant with...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Do You Have Any Cool Shop Art? (Otherwise known as neat stuff you won’t ditch but will never use)

This cool little Stromberg WW carb came off of the Studebaker I technically still own but have neither the means or resources to do anything with currently. The carb is super cool looking and while I...

Turbo Video: A Cool Explanation Of How Wild Pulling Tractors Run 4-Turbo Compound Setups For Huge Boost And Power

While we all like to marvel at cool twin turbo setups on drag cars and stuff, the guys who run professional level pulling tractors have been doing insane things with turbos for decades before the...

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BangShift Daily Tune Up: Call Me The Breeze – Lynrd Skynrd (1974)

It’s a Skynrd kind of day in BangShift land today. We dug up this freaking awesome live concert footage of the band playing one of the great driving tunes of all time “Call Me The...

Awesome Video: Bubba Watson’s New Hovercraft Golf Cart – We Want One!

Bubba Watson is one of the best golf players in the world. He’s sponsored by Oakley, which is one of the coolest companies in the world because they commission stuff like a freaking hovercraft...