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Engine Teardown Nightmare! This Crankshaft Welded Itself To The Balancer! Watch How Peter At HED Get’s This Thing Apart.

Over the years I’ve pulled a few engines apart that surprised me because they had damage inside that you would think might keep it from running, or at least running as well as it seemed to in...

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US Street Nationals Testing: LIVE Testing Action From Bradenton Motorsports Park. It’s Time For The Drag Illustrated Winter Series!

It’s time for the Drag Illustrated Winter Series in Florida to continue! The US Street Nationals are on this weekend, and while the rest of the easter half of the country will be freezing, the...

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Joe Grippo’s 2025 Year In Review: More Of The Best Street Cars, Hot Rods, Race Cars, Drag and Drive, and Drag Race Action of 2025!

Here’s Photo Gallery #2 from Joe Grippo, as we’ve got even more to share from his Best Of 2025. Check them out below and if you missed the first gallery, we’ve got a link below to...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 IMSA Whelen Mazda MX-5 Cup at Daytona International Speedway | Race 1 | Daytona Beach, Florida

There is so much racing that is going on in Daytona this week, leading up to the famed Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona which starts on Saturday. There have been a full week of races and practice so far,...

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King of the Hammers 2026 Is Coming! The Livestream Starts With This View Of Hammertown Coming Together LIVE From Johnson Valley.

That’s right, it’s January and that means that King of the Hammers is coming! King of the Hammers 2026 officially starts on January 22nd and will continue for more than two weeks. It...

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Joe Grippo’s 2025 Year In Review: The Best Street Cars, Hot Rods, Race Cars, Drag and Drive, and Drag Race Action of 2025!

Joe Grippo is one of BANGshift’s longest running contributors and has covered everything from junkyards to car shows and drag races to drag and drives, and so much more. He drags his lovely...

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Steve Magnante Is Back And Truck Week Continues. Truck Week Feature #7 – GMC EM5700

Here’s the seventh video of Steve’s Truck Week series! This time it’s a GMC EM5700. This 1967 GMC is something interesting and Steve is going to teach us about it, and more! Watch and if you...

Jeff Lutz Returns To Drag And Drive! Florida’s Sick Week 2024 Starts Now! | Sick Week Day 0

It’s winter in Florida and that means it is time for Sick Week 2024, the first Drag and Drive event of the year. This event is always a good time, features some great heavy hitters, and is a...

How To Step Up Your Fabrication Game With A Few Simple Tips, Tricks, And Techniques That Don’t Require Any New Tools!

When you see a car or truck that you really dig, that has custom fabrication work on the chassis, suspension, etc, the custom touches are what catches your eye. With that said, it isn’t always...

Safety First! Strap In With Harnesses, Seats, And More From RaceQuip. Check Out All The Options Here!

We’re big on safety around here and are sticklers on having the right safety equipment in the car and on ourselves, for the type of racing we’re doing. While a lot of the gear does cross...

Rumble Guts: Watch The Fancifully Massive PT Boat Engine Powered Packard Bentley Fire Up!

This is pretty awesome, if not totally off the wall. You are about to see the incredibly and fancifully massive PT Boat engine powered Packard Bentley fire up. This is one of those cars that a guy...

Watch The Violent End And Aftermath Of This 8.3L Cummins Powered Minneapolis-Moline Pulling Tractor

Boost. It is that magical thing which turns mundane, run of the mill, engines into heroic piles of iron and aluminum. It can also turn those heroic piles of iron and aluminum into broken and costly...

This 1964 US Army Progress Report On The Development Of A Universal Engineering Tractor Rules

Here’s some cool footage for all of you heavy equipment dork out there like me. I found this 1960 US Army progress report on the development of a universal engineering tractor and it is pretty...

The Alfarrari Project: New Intake For The Ferrari Engine, Making Things Symmetrical, And A Better Hood Bulge.

The Alfarrari project is coming along great, but it needs some enhancements and Jeff wanted a different intake manifold and just found one. This intake is going to allow for more symmetry under the...

Vice Grip Garage Is BIG BLOCK Swapping A 80’s Built Drag Car and will the Independence Chevelle make a return?

Derek is back at it, with a big block swap that has to happen if the car was going to make it to Sick Week. This time he might have bitten off more than he can chew, because it sounds too simple of a...

Finnegan Got His CSI On And Sherlock’d His Dead Big Block Chevy and Found Out Why It Broke!

Finnegan is back at it, in the garage and tearing stuff apart. This time it’s the 632 cubic inch Big Block Chevrolet that he broke. But what broke? Sometimes you tear up something so bad that...

How Different Are 1939 Ford And 1939 Mercury Coupes? Ford And Mercury Are The Same Right? Or Are They?

Many of us are used to Ford and Mercury models of cars sharing a ton of style and bones. There were a ton of them that shared platforms and architecture in the 1960’s and beyond, but how about...

CARBURETED M90 LS TEST-HOW TO: RUN A CARB ON A CHEAP M90 SUPERCHARGER! JUST CUT A HOLE IN THE TOP!

Richard has been testing these low buck M90 Superchargers like a mad man and has found the limits of their performance, along with simple ways to run them on just about anything. It’s awesome...

Steve Magnante Is Back And Truck Week Continues. Truck Week Feature #6 – The High Class Diamond T Rig

Here’s the sixth video of Steve’s Truck Week series! This time it’s a Diamond T. These were high dollar rigs back in the day. Check it out. Our friend Steve Magnante has been out of commission...

Iron Trap’s Hidden 1938 Ford Convertible Hot Rod: Mocking Up The 331 Cadillac Engine In This 1938 Ford Convertible Hot Rod.

In a previous video we shared the 1938 Ford Convertible Hot Rod that the guys at Iron Trap Garage found stashed away in an old garage, gave a first wash, and discovered had a seized engine. But lucky...