Site of the Week: No One Rides For Free.com
NoOneRidesForFree.com bills itself as “Boogie Vans and One Night Stands”. It is a blog that celebrates the free and wild culture culture of “vanning” in the 1970s. For decades...
Alan Johnson Develops Bad Ass Pro Mod Hemi Engine, Incredible Head Flow Numbers
Most people know Alan Johnson as one of the greatest nitro drag racing crew chiefs of all time. Many however, do not know that Johnson is one of the leading developers and suppliers of top level drag...
Baldwin-Motion is Back: 2011 427ci and 454ci Camaros to Hit the Market
Every BangShifter worth his big block knows the names of Joel Rosen, and Baldwin-Motion. Rosen built and tuned the burliest, most well thought out super cars of the 1960s and early 1970s until he was...
AFCO introduces cool new products for 2011
BangShift.com has spent the last couple days hanging out with the finest companies in the automotive aftermarket at SEMA’s Motorsports Parts Manufacturer’s Council and have been checking...
Crane Cams is back and bigger and better than ever before.
After a dramatic 2009 that found all their assets for sale on the auction block, Crane Cams rose from the ashes like a Phoenix and spent 2010 dusting themselves off and getting back to work. The...
Wreckage Video: Two Cars Tangle Badly at the Top End of the Strip
This is a very violent wreck that illustrates some of the dangers that lurk at tracks which are not constructed to modern safety standards. When this pair of four second, eighth-mile door slammers...
eBay Find: A Hemi Powered 1971 Dodge Colt
One of the most infamous car and engine combinations in the history of drag racing was the deadly match of a Chrysler Hemi and the tiny Dodge Colt in the early 1970s. Prompted by the ass kicking laid...
New From DART: 427 Cubic Inches of Small Block Ford Muscle
Dick Maskin and the rest of the Dart team are back at it with even more great SHP combos for both Ford and Chevy fans. With 427 cubic inches of small block power available for the Blue Oval and...
Racing Head Service: Leading the LS Revolution
When the Comp Performance Group brought back the Racing Head Service RHS brand, the aftermarket, and Car Junkies world wide, were excited to hear that a brand name associated with killer performance...
The Single Greatest Photo Ever: Vangina
We realize that this is completely random, but we simply had to post this photo. The picture turned up in our forum section when a discussion thread made a left hand turn into van-ville. The fact...
Event Gallery: The 2011 Northeast Motorsports Expo – Philadelphia, PA
Indoor car shows and expos keep northern BangShifters from going completely insane during the icy clutches of winter. Recently, Joe Grippo hit the 2011 Motorsports Show held annually in Philadelphia,...
BangShift Question of the Day: Is This Honda Cool?
Honest question, is this Honda cool? The little Civic has a turbo and intercooler hanging off the front of it, has big drag slicks fitted to the front end and it shoots fire like a mother. Kevin...
Photo of the Day: Wretched Excess in the Flesh
Well, we started today with an Econoline that had a small block Ford hanging out of the bed and we’ll end it with another small block Ford, this time spilling out of a Cub Cadet lawn tractor....
BangShift Project Spotlight: Plugging a Vortec 350 Into a 2000 Chevy S-10 Xtreme
If you’re a funny car driver who works at a high performance machine shop and your daily driver truck takes a dump, simply fixing it is not an option. Such was the case with our pal Jon Wall,...
