Bonneville 2011 Galllery: Friday and Saturday on the Salt and at the Cruise!
Well, it’s on! Speed Week has begun and thanks to the great folks at Spectre we have an opening salvo of photos to show you. Chad will be on the salt ad delivering dispatches as of tomorrow but...
The Parting Shift: A Regular Guy Shows GM How Powershifting Really Goes
In the blog item just below this one, we showed you a video from GM on how they test their manual transmissions “Woodward Ave” style. Those tests are designed to recreate the kind of...
Cool Video: How The Brutality of Woodward Avenue Still Lives in GM Manual Transmission Testing
Woodward Avenue in Detroit is one of the most hallowed spots of ground for gearheads like us. It was literally the scene of the musclecar crime in the 1960s with roaming bands of factory engineers in...
The Raybestos GTO-R Hits the Strip – You can Win This Car!!
The dudes at Raybestos have really out done themselves with their awesome 1964 GTO-R build. It is packing a 700hp LSX454 engine, $20,000 worth of NASCAR spec brakes, killer suspension, lots of custom...
Funny Video: Eight Minutes of Pace Car/Safety Car Fails
One of the great gearhead movie exchanges of all time went down between Robert Duval and Tom Cruise in, “Days of Thunder”. Duval tells Cruise to pull out on the track and hit the pace...
2011 Orlando World Street Nationals “Rescheduled” until 2012
The 2011 Orlando World Street Nationals have been effectively cancelled and the race may be run again in 2012 according to a press release on the Orlando Speed World Dragway website. Carl Weisinger...
Big Fire Video: A Mustang Blows a Transmission Line and Lights Up Like a Roman Candle!
This video, shot at the currently dormant Gateway International Raceway just outside of St Louis does a great job of depicting the volatility of transmission fluid when it hits red hot exhaust parts!...
Project Car Video Update: The 1983 Mustang GT Packing 545ci of Big Block Ford Prepares for Drag Week!
About a year ago, BangShift forum member BigBlockRanger decided to switch project gears and ditch the little truck that housed his large block Ford mill and find something that he could...
eBay Find: A 5hp Oldsmobile for More Than $33,000
Yesterday we told you about a Camaro on RacingJunk that was selling for $100k and came with three super powerful engines. Today we’re spinning the dial in the other direction and inviting you...
Bonneville Video: Amir from Spectre Talks Us Through a 350mph Streamliner Run
The Speed by Spectre ‘Liner will be running at Bonneville next week and we’ll be there to cover it. Chad will be bringing the fight to the salt starting on Monday. But we digress. If...
Project Car Update: The 454 Powered 1970 Caprice Gets Some Tire Fitment Mods, a Clean engine bay, a Tuned Carb, and a Transmission Fix!
Regular BangShift readers will recognize the name Scott Liggett. He’s our SoCal photo maven who contributes lots of great shots from shows and cruises from the land that rust (kind of) forgot....
Instructional Video: Don’t Put Your Face There Kid
Being a gearhead, especially a young one, means living through many rites of passage. The first time you push a wrench with a closed fist and rip all the skin off your knuckles, the first time you...
Pick Sides: Will the Future of OEM Engines Be Dominated by Superchargers or Turbos?
You don’t need to be a rocket genius, or even a regular genius to know that the future of OEM engines is about small displacement and boost. There are major manufacturing companies lining...
