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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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Best Car Wheel Theft Deterrent Lug Nut? Can Any Wheel Lock Prevent Theft? Let’s find out!

When wheel locks started to become a real thing in the 1970s nobody realized that these devices would in fact be the reason for their own demise. You see within the first week of the first 100 sets...

The 1955 Chevy Apache Pickup Rebuild: The ’55 Stroker Gets a DIY X-Pipe Exhaust

So much has been done to this truck to get it ready to drive all the way back to Canada, and man is it cool. In this installment, the exhaust is going together as this bad boy gets closer and closer...

HOW TO: CHEAP SBC MODS THE $1000 QUESTION? WHAT MODS ARE WORTH THE MOST POWER AND WHAT DO THEY COST?

So what does $1,000 get you if you use it right to upgrade your small block? We know that LS engines are all the rage, and with good reason, but there are jillions of small blocks out there in...

Low-Profile Exhaust Manifolds For Your Gen III Hemi Swap – Fit A HEMI In Anything With These!

If you have a project in need of a Gen 3 HEMI, and the fit is going to be tight, then these are the manifolds for you. There are a lot of Mopar engines that were pretty tight in the engine...

WHERE’S THE TORQUE? HOW CAN I MAKE MORE LOW SPEED TORQUE? WHO MAKES THE BEST LOW-SPEED TORQUE CAM?

What’s a torque cam? What do I need to do to get the right cam to make big low end torque in my junkyard ls? The answer might surprise you, because there is no magic science in a camshaft that...

Goodguys Del Mar Car Show Photos: Here’s Our Final Gallery Of Rides In The SoCal Sun

The Del Mar Goodguys Show never fails to deliver, but here is our final gallery of photos from Wes Allison, and if you missed our previous photos then use the link below to check them all out too....

Indianapolis World Of Wheels Car Show Photos: Another Great Midwest Car Show Full Of Cool Hot Rods, Customs, Muscle Cars, And More.

If you missed any of our previous galleries from Jim, you should click the link below, because we’ve tot all kinds of great stuff from the Indianapolis World of Wheels show that we are sharing...

NHRA Baby Gators Photos: More Awesome Sportsman Drag Racing From Grippo

Here’s the sixth gallery from Grippo, and if you missed any of the previous galleries there is a link down below to check them out as well! He got great photos from Gainesville while enjoying...

5 Things To Pay Attention To For Your Drag And Drive Suspension: Race Only Control Arms May Not Be Enough

When I started doing Drag and Drive events way back in 2005, the number of people who tried to complete them with cars that featured mostly race-only parts was staggering and that meant lots of them...

Gearhead Video: The Restoration Of This Weirdly Awesome 100 Year Old Ball Shaped Electric Motor Rules

We all seemed to have loved the recent restoration video about the Maytag gas engine last week so it is only right that we follow it up with something even more interesting and different. The...

Dumb Fun With Cars: These Guys Beating An LS2 Swapped Subaru Legacy Station Wagon Like A Mule Is Entertainment

On a day where I’m lusting over a 1963 Plymouth Savoy station wagon, my son Tom shot me this link to some guys beating on an LS2 powered Subaru Legacy wagon in some snowy crappy weather. This...

Happy 4/18! This In-Depth Look At Building A 418ci Dirt Modified Engine Is Awesome

When it comes to circle track racing, horsepower is still the king in so many different parts of the sport. You need to to run competitively on asphalt and on dirt and not only do you need to have a...

ARP Says: Read The Instructions! The Best Fasteners In The World Need Proper Installation

We all know that ARP makes the finest high performance fasteners in the world. We have toured their shop, shared their stories, used their products, and talked to you about why these things are just...

Goodguys Del Mar Car Show Photos: More Hot Rod Fun In The Sun In SoCal

The Del Mar Goodguys Show just keeps delivering. Here is another great gallery of photos from Wes Allison, and if you missed our previous photos then use the link below to check them all out too....