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Happy New Year 2026 From BANGshift.com! Here’s To A Happy, Healthy, And Fun New Year Full Of Horsepower, Tire Smoke, And More!

On behalf of the entire BANGshift Family, I want to thank you all for being a part of our 2025 and hope that your 2026 is even better! We are super thankful for such a great year of racing in 2025...

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More Big IHRA Moves: IHRA Purchases Rockingham Speedway and Shares Long-Term Vision for “The Rock”!

Well, we thought that the news about Heartland Park Topeka would be the last big IHRA announcement of 2025, but they squeaked another one in under the wire with a New Year’s Eve announcement...

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If You Could EV Swap An Old Ride For Cheap, Would You? This Mercury Comet Had One Donor Vehicle And Cost Less Than $6,000

I know everyone likes to bash on electric vehicles, and I’m clearly not the market they are aiming for, but there is something kind of cool about guys doing EV swaps on certain rides. Sure, I...

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Drag Racing HISTORY: The Hot Rod Hoarder’s Best Vintage Drag Cars of 2025 Are All Right Here!

We love all the folks that we regularly showcase here on BANGshift.com and one of our favorites is Tommy Lee Byrd, the Hot Rod Hoarder. He hits great events, features some great historical race cars...

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Build Your Own Magnetic Clamping Table! This Magnetic Lifter Shop Hack Is A Game Changer for Grinding Or Sanding Sheet Metal!

Clamping stuff to the workbench so you can grind or sand on it is a pain sometimes. And if you are having to move and flip and rotate your part to grind on multiple surfaces, it can really take some...

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IHRA Acquires Heartland Motorsports Park In A Move To Resurrect Yet Another Abandoned Race Track!

The International Hot Rod Association has been making huge waves in the drag racing community with some pretty unbelievable announcements and purchases over the past year and there is no sign of them...

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Frostbite Sale: Save Big On Parts To Keep Your Hot Rod, Trucks, Or Racecar Cool!

Holley’s Spring Clearance Sale features all kinds of great stuff from their Frostbite brand of cooling system components. I run Frostbite in our 1,000 plus horsepower drag and drive car, daily...

FREE LIVESTREAM: The Spring Fling GALOT LIVE All Week Long!

Big Money Bracket Racing LIVE!!! That’s right, it is Spring Fling time and that means some of the hottest bracket racers in the country are going to be battling it out for big money at Galot where...

Amelia Island Concourse d’Elegance: The Variety Of Cars At This Show Is NOT What We Expected! Real Customs!

We’ve got another great gallery of photos from Amelia Island thanks to Joe Grippo. If you missed any of our other photos, use the link below to check them all out. (Words and Photos by Joe...

The Race Of Gentleman At FlaBob Airfield Was Spectacular. Here Are More Photos!

We’re nearing the end of our epic photos from The Race of Gentleman at FlaBob and can tell you that every single one of them makes me want to plaster them all over my house. What awesome...

How To File Fit Rings For Any Engine (And Some GM Gen V LT-Series Tips and Tricks)

Video Description: If you want to maximize performance when building an engine, then you need to be file-fitting your piston rings. If you are adding boost or nitrous, then absolutely MUST file fit...

Featured Product: Hi-Tek Deep Transmission Pans For Ram Trucks From B&M

Parts Description: Outfit your 2013-2023 1500 or 2019-2023 2500/3500 Ram Truck’s ZF 8HP-series transmission with a bigger and better transmission pan from B&M. A Hi-Tek deep transmission...

ARE LOW-BUCK BBC HEADS A GOOD DEAL? 1/2 THE PRICE BUT 1/2 THE HP GAINS! AFR VS SPEEDMASTER OVAL PORTS.

So, is the deal really the best deal? Is the cheaper part really the way to go? Sometimes, yes! But how about when it comes to a big block Chevrolet cylinder head comparison? We’re talking...

Real Good At Doin’ Stuff Video: Cleetus Mcfarland Wins A No Prep Event!

This look into the No Prep racing world, through the eyes of Peter Harrell and Cleetus McFarland’s Mullet race El Camino is one you won’t see everyday. Either people don’t want to...

Cool Video: The Interesting History Of Tony Stewart’s Last Winning NASCAR Stock Car

Race cars are ultimately tools or implements designed to get a specific job done in a specific way. They are not things that have feelings, a brain, or the ability to communicate. Well, sometimes we...

Happy 4-27: We’re Celebrating with Ford and Chevy 427 Dyno Videos!

This is the best “displacement week” of the year in our opinion. We get the click off some of the best engines the big three ever produced in this one series of days.  Other than the 426...

How To Build A Channeled Hot Rod: The Working Man’s Model A Sedan Part 20 – Building The Rear Suspension

The body is mostly done, the patch panels are in, the floors are done, the firewall has been setup and all kinds of stuff is getting close, but now it is time to start on suspension so that this...

Flying Sparks Starts Working On The Rough C6 Corvette’s T56: Part 5 – Installing And Testing To See If It Works Now!

It had lots of broken parts, they took them out and installed new ones, and now this thing is going back into their C6 Corvette to see if it actually works. We’ve all been there, building...

Tre5 Customs Twin Turbo C10 Feature: Low, With Twins, And Lots Of Attitude

The guys at Tre5 build some pretty cool trucks, and I always like watching their feature videos that come along when a project is ready to get delivered to the owner. These aren’t super sexy...

Junkyard Finds: 1956 Buick Station Wagon, A 1960 Chevy, A Dart And A Duster, Just To Name A Few!

Chad is back at it! More junkyard crawls as he scours the midwest looking for more cars and trucks to add to his awesome wrecking yard. Check out these cool finds. They may be rough, but they are...