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Engine Teardown Nightmare! This Crankshaft Welded Itself To The Balancer! Watch How Peter At HED Get’s This Thing Apart.

Over the years I’ve pulled a few engines apart that surprised me because they had damage inside that you would think might keep it from running, or at least running as well as it seemed to in...

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US Street Nationals Testing: Testing And Qualifying Action From Bradenton Motorsports Park. It’s Time For The Drag Illustrated Winter Series!

It’s time for the Drag Illustrated Winter Series in Florida to continue! The US Street Nationals are on this weekend, and while the rest of the easter half of the country will be freezing, the...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 IMSA 2026 BMW M Endurance Challenge, Michelin Pilot Challenge, And Whelen Mazda MX-5 Cup at Daytona International Speedway | Race 1 | Daytona Beach, Florida

There is so much racing that is going on in Daytona this week, leading up to the famed Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona which starts on Saturday. There have been a full week of races and practice so far,...

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King of the Hammers 2026 Is Coming! The Livestream Starts With This View Of Hammertown Coming Together LIVE From Johnson Valley.

That’s right, it’s January and that means that King of the Hammers is coming! King of the Hammers 2026 officially starts on January 22nd and will continue for more than two weeks. It...

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Joe Grippo’s 2025 Year In Review: More Of The Best Street Cars, Hot Rods, Race Cars, Drag and Drive, and Drag Race Action of 2025!

Here’s Photo Gallery #2 from Joe Grippo, as we’ve got even more to share from his Best Of 2025. Check them out below and if you missed the first gallery, we’ve got a link below to...

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Joe Grippo’s 2025 Year In Review: The Best Street Cars, Hot Rods, Race Cars, Drag and Drive, and Drag Race Action of 2025!

Joe Grippo is one of BANGshift’s longest running contributors and has covered everything from junkyards to car shows and drag races to drag and drives, and so much more. He drags his lovely...

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Donut Derelicts: SoCal’s Coolest Cruise-In Has The Christmas Spirit

(Photos by Wes Allison) It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, even at Donut Derelicts cruise-in! It’s still cruising weather in SoCal and that means Donut Derelicts baby! Wes hit up...

How Much Power Does A NASCAR Impact Gun Make? The Torque Test Channel Customizes And Tests One!

NASCAR impact guns are some badass pieces. They are not just a stock impact gun, but rather one that has been blueprinted, ported, and more so that they can run on much higher air pressure and way...

PRI Show Photos: Here’s Our Last Blast Of Photos From The 2021 PRI Show In Indy!

This is it, our last gallery of photos from the PRI Show! We’ve got a lot of galleries from the show, so check them all out. And if you are just getting started with our coverage, don’t worry...

Big Power And Torque Gains For Your Duramax LP5: Introducing The Pulsar V3 Tuner

More, more, more! More power, more torque, more control. The latest crop of Duramax-powered trucks have amazing horsepower and torque and are absolutely the most capable GM trucks in history, but...

Survivor Excalibur Boogie Van FOUND at Auction!! Make It Kustom Risks It All To Buy And Save This Throwback

Custom vans are cool, and even if they aren’t all the style you like you have to appreciate the amount of work that went into these things in the 1970s and 1980s. These are much larger inside...

Metal Fabrication How To: Fitzee Builds A Bitchin Roll Pan For A Datsun Pickup

Fitzee builds some cool stuff and is the man when it comes to simple and stout sheet metal fabrication and repair. He’s a bad ass when it comes to rust repair, but the best thing about Fitzee...

Everyone Sucks At TIG Welding The First Time They Do It, But Here Are Three Tips That Will Help You Not Suck For Long

With rare exceptions, you kinda suck at everything you do for the very first time. Trying to ride a bike? Yep, you suck. But you did have mom and dad there with you giving you tips and tricks in an...

FJ45 Rock Crawler Project: Cutting And Wedging The Bed On This Unicorn Almost Makes Me Cringe…Almost.

If you know old Toyota Land Cruisers then you know that an FJ40 is an iconic off-roader. Like a Jeep CJ, it’s a short wheelbase little utility ride that can be built into anything. The FJ60 on the...

Free Livestream: The SFG Christmas Bracket Bash 2021 Starts Today!

Bradenton Motorsports Park has been the epicenter of awesome when it comes to racing these past few weeks and it’s awesome to see that even more greatness is going on before the Christmas...

Buyer Beware: This $130,000 1970 Hemi Plymouth Superbird Is A Giant Orange Collection Of Problems

This is an interesting video. Hoovies Garage is a huge YouTube Channel and it’s a good channel as well. My sons like watching it and the dude who founded it and runs it seems to be a salt of...

Five in A Row To Make It Go: This Video Looks At The Largest Five Cylinder Engines In The World

When we think about “oddball” engine layouts the inliners don’t typically enter the conversation. The W-style engines, the large displacement, small cylinder count V engines, and...

American Powertrain Parting Shift: Watch Joel Steele Set The H-Pattern Stick Record In The 6.80s At Over 210mph!

One of the coolest things about drag racing is the clean way that “records” can be followed and tracked. There are a billion of them. Unlike road course style records that can get...

Radial Of A Different Kind: This Guiberson T-1020 Diesel Radial Is The Perfect Christmas Gift

The last several years it has been radial this, radial that, right? Well, that’s in the world of drag racing. In the world of engines, radials have been a thing for a long, long time. Radial...

2021 Through The Lens: Our Final Batch Of Fantastic David Whealon Images From The Racing Year That Was

(Photos by David Whealon) – Whether it was the wet Virginia countryside or the pastel colored Florida sunsets at Gainesville, David Whealon was there and armed with his picture taking machine...