BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is The Best Innovation Created By An American Car Company?
Dec 20, 2022Brian Lohnes10
So yesterday you all got the pitchforks and torches out as your railed against the biggest automotive rip offs of all time. Today we’re taking things in a more positive direction and asking you...
Southern Fried Drag Racing Video: Check Out The Action From 1977 At Roxboro Dragway – Glidden, Fulton, More!
Dec 20, 2022Brian LohnesComments Off on Southern Fried Drag Racing Video: Check Out The Action From 1977 At Roxboro Dragway – Glidden, Fulton, More!
A couple years back Roxboro Dragway, now Roxboro Motorsports Park was in the news as the facility was auctioned off to the highest bidder. Having sat dormant for a little while, we were nervous that...
Watch This Austin Healey 3000 Mk1 Jam Wheel To Wheel With Ferraris, Jags, and More – The Big Six Sings!
Dec 20, 2022Brian LohnesComments Off on Watch This Austin Healey 3000 Mk1 Jam Wheel To Wheel With Ferraris, Jags, and More – The Big Six Sings!
Donald Healey was a brilliant guy who built some awesome cars in his day. In many ways, his masterwork was the Austin Healey 3000 Mk1. Powered by a “Big Six” 3.0L inliner, it was a...
PRI Show Photos: Take A Look At All The Race Parts And Race Cars We Saw In Indy
Dec 19, 2022Chad ReynoldsComments Off on PRI Show Photos: Take A Look At All The Race Parts And Race Cars We Saw In Indy
We were in Indianapolis for the 2022 PRI Show and man there was cool stuff going on. Thursday we got to the show, judged the featured products, saw some awesome stuff we’d never seen before,...
Polishing Turds: Part 13, Finally Dyno Testing The Polishing Turds Traditional Small Block Build!
Dec 19, 2022Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Polishing Turds: Part 13, Finally Dyno Testing The Polishing Turds Traditional Small Block Build!
In this new episode of the Polishing Turds series from HED you are going to see the assembled engine getting tested! Can you guess how much power it is going to make on the dyno? Pete covered...
Car Guy Confessions With Jeff Smith – Funny Car Champ ‘Fast Jack’ Beckman, Plus Wally Trophy Misconceptions
Dec 19, 2022Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Car Guy Confessions With Jeff Smith – Funny Car Champ ‘Fast Jack’ Beckman, Plus Wally Trophy Misconceptions
If you haven’t been watching the Car Guy Confessions podcast with Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty then you are missing out. These guys are great and they have a good time doing the...
Who Makes The Best Car Jump Starter In 2022? Jump Start a 5.9L Diesel & 7.4L Big Block? NOCO, Autogen, Yesper, Gooloo
Dec 19, 2022Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Who Makes The Best Car Jump Starter In 2022? Jump Start a 5.9L Diesel & 7.4L Big Block? NOCO, Autogen, Yesper, Gooloo
I remember when little jump packs started to become a thing a few years ago after previously having to carry around a jump pack that was the size of a car battery with jumper cables hanging from it....
Twin Turbo Hellcat Swapping A Foxbody – Part 1
Dec 19, 2022Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Twin Turbo Hellcat Swapping A Foxbody – Part 1
Is it weird that the LS engine has become so commonplace in a Foxbody Ford that it seems weird to swap in anything else? I mean the GM LS is already outside the family, so why does a Gen3 HEMI seem...
Fastest: An Oral History of The 1992 Hot Rod Magazine Fastest Street Car Shootout As Told By The People Who Were There!
Dec 19, 2022Brian Lohnes1
In 1992 Hot Rod Magazine gathered a collection of the fastest street cars in America for a showdown in Memphis, Tennessee. The reverberations of this event are still being felt today as it helped to...
Ever Wonder How They Bend 2x4x.188 Frame Rails?
Dec 19, 2022Chad Reynolds2
Bending round tubing smoothly is a relatively simple process and there are a lot of machines and tools that will do those bends in your garage. But bending square or rectangular tubing is a...
Pontiac Power Video: 535ci Of Butler Performance Built Blower Motors Cranks Out More Than 800hp!
Dec 19, 2022Brian LohnesComments Off on Pontiac Power Video: 535ci Of Butler Performance Built Blower Motors Cranks Out More Than 800hp!
This is the cure for the common LS engine. You are going to watch an awesome 535ci, Butler Performance built Pontiac engine whine and grunt out more than 800hp and more than 850 lb/ft of torque on...
This Quick 8 Video From Shuffletown Dragway 1989 Is Spectacular – The Way It Was
Dec 19, 2022Brian LohnesComments Off on This Quick 8 Video From Shuffletown Dragway 1989 Is Spectacular – The Way It Was
You can almost hear the cars at zMax from the abandoned, crumbing remains of Shuffletown Dragway. Sure, zMax is one of the most opulent strips in the world and it always packs the fans in but it is...
Watch This Ladder Rack, Plow Frame Equipped Chevy Work Truck Drift And Dominate At A Maine Track
Dec 19, 2022Brian LohnesComments Off on Watch This Ladder Rack, Plow Frame Equipped Chevy Work Truck Drift And Dominate At A Maine Track
Maine’s Beech Ridge Motor Speedway is no stranger to the electronic pages of BangShift. The 1/3 mile flat oval has been featured here several times for the antics that happen during the...
The Alfarrari Project: The Ferrari Powered Alfa Gets Power Steering
Dec 18, 2022Chad ReynoldsComments Off on The Alfarrari Project: The Ferrari Powered Alfa Gets Power Steering
The Tunnel is in, as are the engine and trans, but there is still a lot to do. I mean a lot. Before we get into all the work that is going into building a set of headers for this thing, we’re...












