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Punish the Pad New Zealand Burnout Competition Video: Destroying Tires, Lighting Fires, and Entertaining The Masses!

Australians get all the credit for big burnout competitions, but their neighbors the Kiwis also know what they are doing when it comes to creating big tire smoke. With huge “Australian...

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Land Speed Racers Chasing Speed at El Mirage: Here Are The 2025 Southern California Timing Association Season Highlights!

While Bonneville gets the most fame and attention, and is the most iconic land speed racing location on earth, the dry lake bed at El Mirage is home to land speed racing and arguably the toughest...

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Why Is Torx So Bad And So Good At The Same Time? Testing Torx Bits And Explaining How They REALLY Work.

Anyone that works on cars and trucks is familiar with Torx fasteners and bits, as are anyone who’s done any DIY, deck, fence, or construction projects in recent years. There are some big...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Custom Fender Flares Built For Punishment! Truly Custom Fabrication.

Shannon is back at the fab work on the FJ40, with the rear bumper done, it’s time for fender flares. But these aren’t just any flares, as they will tie into the bumper out back for...

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Marketplace Find: This Survivor 1985 Chevrolet Suburban 2500 Is Big Block Powered Gold! Big Block, TH400, 3.73, And 68K miles!

Wow what a score this one will be for someone. With less than 70,000 miles on the odometer, and interior and paint that look near mint, this big block 2500 Suburban will make a great family cruiser...

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My Best BARN FIND Yet? Chip Foose Explores A Hot Rodders Collection And Finds One He Just Can’t Believe.

Chip Foose is no stranger to cool cars, whether in the project stage or finished or anywhere in between. But what you might not think about is that Chip is a hot rodder just like the rest of us and...

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BangShift Approved: MIT Kids Build Space Camera For Pocket Change

One of life’s great ironies is that simple solutions to problems are often determined by brilliant people. Such was the case when two MIT kids came up with an idea for a cheap, and we mean...

SEMA 2010: Horsing Around

Lots of serious business goes down at the SEMA show every year. Hell, we conducted some of our own. That being said, by the end of the week virtually everyone is looped out on a lack of sleep,...

Project Goliath Update: We Install All Six of Our New Firestones!

After picking our freshly refurbished wheels and newly mounted Firestone tires from the tire shop, we hot footed to the airport for SEMA 2010. Having not installed them before we left on the trip,...

Dyno Video: Everything Was Fine Until He Hit the Gas

This dyno video starts with lots of promise. Seeing what looks to be a Pro Mod style car with twin turbos bolted to the front of it guarantees some type of entertainment. There’s lots of...

SEMA 2010 Question: Is this Cool or Lame?

A company named Innovation Retrokits had two vehicles on display at the 2010 SEMA show. Both were 2010 Camaros. One wore the nose of a 1969 Camaro standard nose and the other wore that of an RS....

BangShift Approved: New Air Boxes in the Spectre Performance Pro Fab Line

The Spectre Performance booth was busier than all Hell last week at SEMA. The Speed by Spectre streamliner was on prominent display as was the huge display trailer…still connected to the big...

SEMA 2010 Video: We Tour the Cherry Bomb 1968 Disturbing the Peace Camaro

When Cherry Bomb’s Matt Graves told us about the company’s “Disturbing the Peace” Camaro at SEMA 2009 we were cautiously optimistic. Matt told us that there were several...

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Event Coverage UPDATE: SEMA 2010 Thursday Show Car and Truck Gallery

We’re here, we’re working, and we’re reveling on what looks to be a mighty good 2010 SEMA show. Everyone who is everyone is here at SEMA 2010, there are new parts and cars galore,...

Come on Down: We’re Welding With Bill Caswell on Friday at SEMA

Friday morning we’re going to be hanging out with our rally pal Bill Caswell on Friday morning at the 2010 SEMA show. There will be welding involved, so it may be worth a visit. Caswell has...

Detroit Speed and Engineering Collects Great Award, Thrashes to Get Car Repaired

BangShift.com pals Kyle and Stacy Tucker at Detroit Speed and Engineering collected the prestigious Business of the Year award from the Hot Rod Industry Alliance at their annual Industry Awards...

Bangshift Approved: Moroso’s New LS-Series Water Pump Adapter

We spent some time with the boys in the Moroso booth and they showed us some really cool new stuff. Our favorite new product in their arsenal is the new LS engine series water pump adapters. These...

Aeromotive Unveils The Universal Stealth Pump Assembly

The guys and girls at Aeromotive were showing off their new Universal Stealth Fuel Pump assembly today and we were all ears. To this point, the incredibly popular “Stealth” line of...

Video: Ridetech Unveils New Coil-Over Shocks at the 2010 SEMA Show

The 2010 SEMA Show is full of high performance manufacturers who are unveiling their newest parts to the public, and some of them come up with some shockers. One of the big shockers at the show this...

Holley Releases A Slew of New Products: We Check Them Out

We got a cool new product tour from the guys at Holley at the 2010 SEMA show. These guys have really been working on some awesome stuff. Everything from engine dress-up stuff to fuel rails, to intake...