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Does A Battery That’s Better Than Energizer And Duracell Actually Exist? Putting Batteries To The Test To Find Out What’s Best!

You can buy AAA batteries for pennies each, or you can spend dollars each, and I always wonder if the cheap ones are actually worth buying or not. And then the cheap ones you get included in...

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Featured Products: KBS RustSeal Easily Stops Rust, Delivers a Beautiful Finish, and Stands Out with 11 Color Options

For Immediate Release: RustSeal Easily Stops Rust, Delivers a Beautiful Finish, and Stands Out with 11 Color Options RustSeal makes it easy for DIYers and professionals alike to permanently stop and...

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Racing With Heavy Hearts…..The KSR Crew Heads To Bradenton Motorsports Park’s Christmas Tree Drags 2025!

Kevin and the KSR Performance and Fab crew headed out to Bradenton for Cleetus McFarland’s Christmas Tree Drags, but like most folks in the motorsports world it was with a heavy heart after the...

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The One and Only Greg Biffle: A Fitting Tribute From His Friend, Fellow Racers, And Family Man, Cleetus McFarland.

The unfortunate and tragic death of Greg Biffle made news worldwide but for Garrett Mitchell, aka Cleetus McFarland, the news hit home much harder. Biffle and his family were on their way to Florida...

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The Boys Found A Rare Snowcat and Trippled the Power! What Could Possibly Go Wrong? This Is Going To Be Fun

I have lots of friends who drive winter beaters, and while some of them drive the same one for several years I also have friends who buy something every year or two and drive them like assh@les...

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Bad Parts? Wrong Oil? NEW Data Reveals WHY Modern Engines FAIL Prematurely! This Info Might Scare You.

New engines are significantly better than older engines in many regards, but not in all of them. And new engines being better than old engines doesn’t mean that old engines aren’t good....

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BangShift Question Of The Day: What Race Track Or Location Do You Most Want To Make A Lap Of?

Since the NHRA Winternationals are under way we’re back to thinking about racing and our upcoming adventures for the 2013 season. Those adventures will take us to drag strips, road courses, mud...

AutoTrader Find: Is This The World’s Cleanest 4-Speed 1980 Malibu? And Is It Worth $20,000?

When we located this amazingly clean 1980 4-speed Chevy Malibu on Craigslist the other day the first thing we did was to contact resident G-body dorkenheimer Dave Nutting and perform a photo analysis...

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BangShift Daily Tune Up: I Gotta New Car – Big Boy Groves (1955)

I am a 32 (soon to be 33) year old Irish guy from Boston but I really love old R&B music and early rock and roll. This song combines all that great sound with awesome lyrics, some automotive...

No PowerShift Tonight, Folks — We’ll Be Back Next Week

It is Thursday night and normally we’re on the air with our weekly live, rollicking show called PowerShift. This week due to an unforseen family- related issue (no neither of our wives ditched...

Fun With Numbers: American Powertrain’s Speed Analyzer Let’s You Tailor Your Transmission Choice

There are lots of calculators on the internet for car stuff. You can figure you compression ratio, displacements, extrapolate horsepower from drag strip time slips, and even determine the payments on...

BangShift Question of the Day: What’s The Coolest Four Door Car?

This question comes right out of a discussion going on in our forum section right now among the members who are debating the merits of hot rodding and modifying four door cars. Obviously you know...

Bitchin’ Video: A Mash Up Of Good Tunes, Tommy Ivo, Vintage Hot Rod, Drag Race, and Dry Lakes Footage From Levi’s Jeans

We were kind of shocked to see that Levi’s jeans had made this totally awesome video highlighting old hot rodding, drag racing, and dry lakes footage that uses voice overs from the likes of...

Craigslist Find: A Shopping Cart Kart

File this under, “Stuff we want to piss off the neighborhood with” although we certainly have enough junk that already does it, this would be pefect for barnstorming the sidewalks and...

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Gallery: The Brock Yates Cannonball Run Exhibition At The Saratoga Auto Museum

(Photo by Joe Grippo) – Brock Yates is a guy we openly idolize here at BangShift. He’s one of the most important and influential automotive journalists ever and his list of books,...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: Green Onions – Booker T and the MG’s (1962)

If we were creating the “soundtrack of our lives” we’d have this song playing in the background every time we walking into a room. The tune may not be a dedicated “car...

Video: The Places They Raced – Episode One – Fantastic Racing History From California

A week or two ago we told you about an upcoming documentary series based on the great Where They Raced books by Harold Osmer. We’re happy to report that the first episode of the series has been...

Event Coverage: PSCA Record Breaker Nationals Wheels Up Photos

Thanks to BangShifter Dave Stoltz, we’ve got some great photo coverage of the 2013 PSCA Record Breaker Nationals. Dave shot plenty of on track and pit shots all weekend, and this is our first...

Bitchin’ Video: A Cool, Stylized Look At Jet Hot’s El Toro, California Autocross Event – Cool Cars and Camera Angles

BangShift Jet-Hot High Performance Coatings have made themselves a big presence at autocross events all over the country. From the Goodguys series to their own Get Started Racing series, the company...

BangShift Question of the Day: What’s Your Favorite Non-Mainstream Engine?

After watching those two killer drag motor dyno pulls, our thoughts wandered off the beaten path to engines that we’ve owned, wanted to own, or will own in the future. While a small cadre of...