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WATCH FREE LIVE Streaming Drag Racing From Santa Pod RIGHT HERE! The Festival Of Power Is ON This Weekend!

This weekend at the famed Santa Pod Raceway in England, there’s a big drag race called the Festival of Power going on, and all the action is LIVE right here! This event is a pre-cursor to the...

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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: The Spring Fling Million! Big Money Bracket Races From Las Vegas – $30,000 Saturday!

It’s time to finish off the Spring Fling Million in Las Vegas, after one heck of a Million Dollar Friday!!!! It’s that time of year folks, when the country’s big dollar bracket racers head...

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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: The Spring Fling Million Dollar Main Event! Big Money Bracket Races From Las Vegas – Million Dollar Friday!

It’s Million Dollar Friday!!!! It’s that time of year folks, when the countries big dollar bracket racers head to Vegas for one of the biggest big-money bracket races in the world, the Spring...

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$43,000 to Win!!! Cleetus’ AWD vs RWD Shootout At Bradenton Motorsports Park was INTENSE, Fun, And Surprising! Who Took It All?

When Cleetus first put up the challenge to pit the best two wheel drive no prep rides up against the best all wheel drive no prep rides, the world lost its mind. The arguing, smack talk, bragging,...

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Stories N’ Steel: Rick Lefever – From a small town to becoming one of the countries most sought after fabricators.

Our friend Brad King, an amazing pinstriper and letterer, is back with another Stories N’ Steel episode where he is interviewing another legend of the hot rodding world. This time it’s...

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ROAD TRIP GOLD with David Freiburger and an AMAZING SURVIVOR 1961 Plymouth Belvedere

Man these cars are something. Ugly? Kinda. Weird? Absolutely. 100% Mopar? You ain’t kidding. There is something about the 1950s to mid 1960s Mopars that makes them really stand out. Styling...

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BangShift Project Spotlight: An Awesome Home-Built V8 RX7 That Hauls Ass

There’s nothing quite like seeing a guy build a killer project at home with his own two hands. BangShift member Weedburner has constructed one of the neatest RX7 V8 conversions we’ve ever...

Wreckage Video: How Drag Racing Your Truck Across a Meadow Can End Really Bad

High speed antics with friends are best left to the drag strip, especially the paved drag strip. This video shows why driving full tilt across a field in a drag race with your buddy ain’t the...

Racing Junk Find: Jim Yates Racing Pro Stock Operation

Jim Yates is a two time NHRA World Champ in the Pro Stock division. Currently he works with up and comer Shane Gray as opposed to operating his own team as he had done in years past. We saw that Jim...

New Gallery: Saturday Pit and Strip Action From the PRO Winter Warm-Up!

Well, our weekend of nitro bathing is 100% over. We’re back on our respective coasts picking flecks of rubber out of our ears and noses. There is really nothing to compare modern nitromethane...

Nitro Gallery: Flamin’ Photos From the Stars of the NHRA at the 2011 PRO Winter Warm-Up

While our live broadcast of the 2011 PRO Winter Warm-Up was cooking along, we were also shooting photos along the wall at Palm Beach International Raceway. Since virtually every car on the grounds is...

Video Poll Question: Did Chrysler’s Detroit-Themed Super Bowl Ad Kick Ass or Fail?

Chrysler had one of the most talked about ads amongst gearheads and car guys at the Super Bowl. The ad shows the new Chrysler 200, but more importantly it features footage from in and around the city...

Video From the PRO Winter Warm Up – Biggest Nitro Pre-Season Test of 2011

BangShift.com will provide free, live streaming video coverage of the PRO Winter Warm Up pre-season NHRA nitro test session February 4/5 from Palm Beach International Raceway in West Palm Beach,...

Thursday UPDATE: Vote for Team BangShift at Road Tour Express.Com

Last week an intrepid group of BangShifters took to the roads of California to compete and revel in the Road Tour Express. The event is part cruise, part scavenger hunt, part excuse to goof off for...

Awesome Drag Racing Video: Eddie Hill in His Prime

As we gather our things and prepare to head toward Palm Beach International Raceway for our live broadcast of the PRO Winter Warm Up pre-season test, thoughts of Top Fuel greatness are on the...

Great Tech Thread: How to Remove the Motor of Your 4th Gen Camaro/Firebird From The Bottom

BangShift member Buddy blew the LT1 engine in his Camaro up about a year ago while ripping through the gears. This was not going to be a quick fix, the plant had to be pulled out of the car. At that...

Engine Builder and Muncie Dragway Operator Dave Himes Passes Away

It is with a heavy heart that we report the passing of Dave Himes, track operator of Muncie Dragway in Muncie, Indiana and high performance engine builder. Himes and his family did an amazing job of...

Racing Junk Find: A Cummins Diesel Powered Funny Car

With all the talk of dragsters and funny cars around here recently, we went shopping for one on RacingJunk. After seeing several “normal” floppers, we saw this car, which we have read...

Legendary Funny Car Racer Pee Wee Wallace Passes at Age 79

Pee Wee Wallace, one of the great funny car racers in drag racing history passed away on January 28th, 2011. Wallace’s accomplishments included winning the NHRA Division One Funny Car...

New Product: Meziere’s New Super Duty Electric Water Pump for Blown Modular Fords

Meziere water pumps have long been a staple on high performance engines. They manufacture and develop pumps for all kinds of severe duty, high performance, and all out racing engines. The company...