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FREE LIVE NHRA Divisional Racing Action: Division 7 Lucas Oil Drag Racing At Firebird Raceway – Friday

Free live drag racing starts here and continues all weekend long from the NHRA Regional at Firebird Raceway in Arizona. We’re talking all kinds of Sportsman Drag racing which means wheels up Stock...

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More Radial vs The World Qualifying From Lights Out 17 at South Georgia Motorsports Park

If you haven’t been watching the livestream here everyday, you might have missed RVW qualifying from yesterday so here’s a highlight video you can check out to see all the action and...

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Like A Good Neighbor, Finnegan Is There. Check Out The Two Day Roll Bar Install That Finnegan And Joe Are Doing In This Chevy II.

If you are going to go quicker than 11.50 seconds in the quarter mile, and you are doing that in a classic car, then you are going to need a roll bar in that car. If you have one, you can then go as...

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Add Sensors Without Cutting Your Harness! The Holley EFI Power Tap Explained. Technology Is A Wonderful Thing!

Sometimes it boggles my mind when folks start cutting and hacking and rigging up electrical systems in their projects, only to find out that the solution to their problem or dilemma was right in...

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Look at All This Carnage! Cleetus McFarland’s Limo Engine Get’s Pulled Apart At Harrell Engine and Dyno, Plus Mechanical Fuel Inject Tech!

I’ve never known anyone that broke more stuff than Cleetus. He’s got a special talent for flinging the rods out of stuff, and I’m not even talking about the stuff he breaks on...

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This Is Italy’s ONLY Indy 500 Winning Car: The 1938 Maserati 8CTF takes on the Goodwood Revival.

With all of Italy’s accomplishments in motorsports, it is kind of hard to believe that the only italian car ever to win the Indy 500 is this 1938 Maserati. I guess it kind of makes sense since...

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Finnegan’s Garage: FINALLY FIXING THE WORLD’S DEADLIEST 2JZ-SWAPPED DODGE CHARGER!!!

Finnegan’s Death Metal Charger is arguably the scariest car that he and Newbern have in the fleet of fun. It is cool as hell, but it certainly isn’t easy to drive, comfortable, or...

Controversial No More: Mercedes Adds SUV Variant To Its EQS EV Portfolio

(By Tom Lohnes) – The Mercedes-EQ EQS came out to a lot of controversy. With un-Mercedes-like looks, an insane optional dashboard setup, and shocking numbers, not everyone totally agreed on...

Listen Up: The NHRA Insider Podcast – Here Comes Houston – Everything You Need To Know About The Springnationals

Tony Pedregon joins Brian Lohnes on this episode of the NHRA Insider to set the scene and the storylines for the NHRA Springnationals in Houston this weekend. The event planned to be the last...

Happy 4/20! Let’s Look At The Awesome Duesenberg 420ci Straight 8 – A Technological Marvel Of Its Day

It has been a few days since we clipped a displacement sweet spot on the BangShifty calendar but we were waiting for this one and the days to follow. Today we’re not talking about a V8 engine...

Wild Ride Video: If You Think Driving A Fuel Altered Is Hard Going Forward It Turns Out Reverse Is No Picnic Either

People love fuel altereds because they are highly unpredictable. They never go the same way twice, the drivers typically have to be really up on the wheel to stay ahead of their wild ways, and their...

Piston Powered Auto-Rama: Check Out All These Awesome Cars And Trucks!

Mike sent us a bunch of killer photos from the Piston Powered Auto-Rama in Ohio. There is a lot here to like, and some pretty unique rides that showed up at this awesome show, so check them out...

This Guy Has Raised The Bar On Pissing Off The Neighbors Up To Expert Level – Five Radial Engines

If you’re a gearhead, there’s not doubt that at least once in your life you’ve really pissed of the neighbors. Maybe it is working on the car late in the driveway, firing it up...

730-HP BBC ON 87-OCTANE!! HOW TO: 700-HP BIG-BLOCK CHEVY POWER COMBOS (ALL MOTOR, LOW COMP 540, SC 454 & TURBO 454)

There are so many times that I’m at an event and someone comes up to me to talk engines and wants to know how to make a given power output. Many ask about 600 horsepower combos for their muscle car...

Project Farm Tests Metal Cutting Blades: What’s The Best Metal Cutting Blade? “Dry Cut” vs “Abrasive” vs “Diamond” Blade. Diablo, DeWalt, Makita

Anyone who builds stuff from metal has to question what chop saw to use now that the world of metal cutting has come to know and love the dry saw. When companies like Evolution started selling a...

Rough Start: No, “Mangusta” Does Not Mean “Italian Mustang”. But It’ll Behave Like One!

Today is one of those days where the Rough Start rulebook is getting launched out of the window and instead we’re going to play loose and fast with our criteria. Normally we’d be looking...

Check Out This Jet Engine Trying To Take Off From It’s Test Stand! Fire, Noise, And Panic Oh My!

You know that moment right when things are starting go completely in the wrong direction? Everything just starts to slow down and you go into instinct mode. Well someone should have told these dudes...

Yikes Video: One More Tap Should Do It – This is NOT The Right Way To Take A Hydraulic Ram Apart

There are lots of dangerous things that can happen on a job site. Equipment malfunctions, engineering failures, wanton human stupidity, you know, all the normal stuff. This video is a quick one. Less...

The Spring Fling Million FREE Live Streaming Video Goes Through Saturday Night!

It’s that time of year folks, where we head to vegas for one of the biggest big money bracket races in the world, the Spring Fling Million. We love this event and are so excited to be providing...

Piston Powered Auto-Rama Car Show Pictures – Muscle Cars, Street Machines, Trucks, And More!

We’ve got a bunch more photos that Mike sent us from the Piston Powered Auto-Rama in Ohio. There is a lot here to like, and some pretty unique rides that showed up at this awesome show, so...