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STREET WEEK SWEDEN LIVE in the United States For The First Time! Get Your All Access Pass To Drag And Drive Greatness Right Here!

That’s right folks, we’ve been talking about it for a few weeks but now is the time to sign up for your livestream from Street Week Sweden! I’ll be there, announcing, interviewing,...

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Cataclean Diesel: Restore DPF Performance & Reduce Emissions On Your Late Model Diesel Truck!

Everyone I know that buys a newer diesel tow rig has a love and hate relationship with their truck because the love they have for the diesel power and efficiency is sometimes matched by the hate they...

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We Tour The Pomona Swap Meet With Our Friend Dane from The Burndown Channel! Check it out!

There are many things that I miss from living in Southern California, and one of them is the Pomona Swap Meet. Unless I was out of town at a race, I was there with Crosby and Jay and the crew, window...

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Turning a Survivor 1950 Pontiac into the Perfect Cruiser. It’s Easier Than You Think and the Results are Awesome!

1950’s American cars have historically been the basis of the majority of true customs, and for good reason. The lines flow, the shapes lend themselves to chopping, sectioning, and frenching,...

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THE VAULT: Exploring Hot Rod & Racing HISTORY Underneath the Petersen Museum. You Gotta See This!

Our friend Tommy Lee Byrd recently got the chance to visit the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, and the very special section, underneath this HUGE space that is called The Vault. It’s...

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4th of July SALE! Visit Ridetech.com Between Now And July 7th for 10% Off Late Model Suspension During July 4th Weekend Sale!

That’s right gang, if you are looking for some real savings this 4th of July weekend, to celebrate 250 years of American pride, then now is your chance to save 10% off your late model...

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Caption This Photo: Listen Up, Dummy!

When I first entered the 2011 PRI show, a few minutes after the doors were opened, many companies were still thrashing to get their booths and displays set up. I was walking down one of the aisles...

Dyno Video: Watch an LS Powered S10 Truck Scream With Open Pipes on a Mustang Dyno

Outside the main convention center building here in Orlando there are several dynos set up. Virtually every dyno company we’ve ever heard of his a display at the show, but a few of them took...

MORE: ENGINES, Videos

Sexy Parts: The Harrop Performance Hurricane Individual Throttle Body Intake Manifold For LS3-LS7 Engines

We completely understand that the point of bolting high performance parts to your hot rod is to make it faster, but hey, looks still count for something. Proof of that came to us in the form of this...

Dana Corp Rolls Out New Crate Axle Line – From the 30 to the 80 They are All Available

When gearheads get together and talk about axles (and yeah, we do that from time to time) the Dana Corporation name pops up frequently. Jeep guys love their 30s and 44s. Drag racers and Mopar freaks...

Jet Hot Will Host Their Own Autocross Series and Run Goodguys Schedule

We were drawn into the Jet Hot booth here at PRI like a moth into fire when we spotted their wicked LS-powered, Detroit Speed suspended, Malibu staring at us. Outside of their already world renowned...

2011 PRI Show Coverage: Our Big Thursday Gallery

We hit the floor of the 2011 PRI show here in Orlando, Florida hard today. This gallery will kick off our coverage and we’ll follow it up with a bunch of specific blog items on cool cars,...

Dyno Video: PAR Racing Engines Builds a Brodix Based Small Block – Makes more than 1100 Horsepower

While we’re throwing the whole “small block” term around here on the blog today, we wanted to show you a real romper stomper of a motor built by the dudes at PAR Racing Engines....

MORE: ENGINES, Videos

GM Builds 100-Millionth small block engine — Not V8 – Just Engine

The GM PR department shot out a release the other day announcing that the General had produced their 100-millionth small block “engine”. That last part is important. They didn’t...

Crazy Video: Evidence of Why Russian Drivers Suck Ass at Driving

We’ve run a ton of videos featuring the ineptitude of Russian drivers. They suck on dry pavement, the rain, especially in the snow, and telling you they blow on ice would just be wasting...

Updated: The 2011 Houston Autorama – Galleries One-Two- and Now Three!

Last weekend the Houston Autorama went down and our man Charles Wickam was on the scene to cover the show literally from setup to tear down. The man went bat poop crazy with his camera, submitting...

Breaking News: Austin Healey Involved in 1955 LeMans Wreck to be Auctioned – Most Dubious Surviving Race Car in History

The Austin Healey 100S driven by British racer Lance Macklin in the 1955 24 Hours of LeMans, and more importantly, the very car that Pierre Levegh hit before cartwheeling into the grandstand and...

Driveway Tech: Attempt One at Freeing Stuck Piston Rings – Did We Succceed?

Everyone says that buying a ganny fresh old car is the best. They are one owner, low mileage gems that granny ony drove to bingo and her Wednesday hair appointment. There can be a problem with...

Cool Video: Brett Voelkel of Air Ride and Lingenfelter Performance Engineering Hook Up To Hot Rod A CTS-V

Here’s a video that falls into the “how to make a good thing better” department. When our pal and OG BangShifter Brett Voelkel scooped up a used Cadillac CTS-V we knew that it would...

MORE: MISC, Videos

BangShift Question of the Day: What is the Most Important Race in the World?

By the time you read this, I’ll be in the sky, on my way to the 24th annual Performance Racing Industry show in Orlando, Florida. For the rest of the week the blog will be filled with racing...