Ridetech.com Coverage of Goodguys in Kansas City, 2009
BangShift.com sponsor Ridetech attends almost all of the Goodguys shows, and the latest coverage on the suspension-maker’s site is of the Mid Western Nationals held September 4-6, 2009, at...
Edelbrock Has a New Site Just for its Aluminum Foundry
Everyone knows about Edelbrock and all the company’s speed parts, but did you know that Edelbrock owns and operates its own foundry to make intake manifolds, heads, and anything else...
Vortech Blower for Inline 5-Cylinder GM Engines!
The guys at Vortech are totally cool with us, and now they’ve got a new part we need to beg them for. Did you know you can get superchargers for the General Motors 3.7L inline five-cylinder...
MSD Coverage of the 40th Crandon World Championship Off-Road Races
Over Labor Day weekend 2009, Crandon International Off-Road Raceway in Wisconsin held its 40th annual World Championship Off-Road races. This is closed-course, high-action racing with trucks up to...
Kruse International Auctions Teetering on the Brink of Financial Collapse
Kruse International, the major leagure auction company that hosts a yearly car auction that it bills as the “world’s largest” is on the verge of financial collapse as it is staring...
Lunati Stroker Cranks for GM Gen 3 and Gen 4 V8s
Lunati has expanded its line of stroker cranks for the hot GM LS-series V8s. Looks like you can build some mondo cubic inches with these things! Here’s the text of the official press release....
Friday Excuse to Go Home Early and Drink: Rise of the Weiner-Mobiles
It’s time to stock up on as much older full-sized iron as you can get your hands on because little econo-box weiner cars are going to become the major focus of seemingly every automaker outside...
Great Read: A Short Biography of Mickey Thompson
The Internet is a funny place. Seemingly out of nowhere, there are great stories to be found and read, even in the most unlikely of places. We stumbled upon this great story about Mickey Thompson on...
Event Gallery: Hemmings Muscle Machines Musclepalooza X
Hemmings Muscle Machines Magazine held Musclepalooza X at Raceway Park, located in Englishtown, NJ on September 5 and 6, 2009. The event, a car show and drag race, looks to have been a...
CraigsList Pick of the Week: Neat Panel Delivery Vega Drag Racer
The Chevy Vega is a little car that scores big cool points in the hearts of hot rodders. Anemic, unreliable, and built of a steel designed to dissolve, the cars were not exactly well regarded when...
John Force Fined $10,000 for Indy Altercation
John Force has been fined two crankshafts, or in normal speak, $10,000, by the NHRA for making physical contact with an NHRA official during his shouting match with Tony Pedregon at Indy. Force is...
Website of the Week: Norwegian Drag Mag Shotgun Magazine
We got tipped off to the hella cool homepage of Norwegian Drag Mag Shotgun by the ADRL’s Ian Tocher. He told us to make sure we checked out the videos, and that was a totally worthy...
Nitrous Oxide Cited as a Major Threat to the Ozone Layer. Not Good.
Here’s some news that sucks. Scientists have recently concluded that nitrous oxide is now the most “ozone depleting” gas in the air. Its use in cars is not cited as a problem (yet),...
Illinois Man Designs Revolutionary New Engine
It’s been a while since we’ve seen a good ol’ “revolutionary” engine story. This one from the North Central Illinois News Tribune goes into some length of detail about...
