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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Chassis Fabrication: Back In The Shop With Shannon Campbell For A New Build

Shannon Campbell is back at it after King of the Hammers in California, and despite breaking some stuff during the Race of Kings, he’s ready to get back at it with some new projects at the...

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Leah Pruett Makes Her Dodge TSR NHRA Top Fuel Return After Two-year Hiatus, Teams Up with Four-time Champ Matt Hagan at Season-opening NHRA Gatornationals

Leah Pruett makes her NHRA Top Fuel return, after a two-year break, at the upcoming NHRA Gatornationals on March 5-8 in the nitro-burning Tony Stewart Racing (TSR) Dodge dragster Pruett, a 12-time...

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Can Ryan Make This Fairmont Run 6’s In The 1/8 For Under 6K? How About Naturally Aspirated With A 5.0?

I love budget builds. Hell, everything I own is a budget build. But sometimes I think folks are just trying to make things harder on themselves. I mean Ryan’s mismatched Fairmont is a GREAT...

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Lights Out 17 Testing Livestream And Video: It’s Time For Radial Revolution 2026 At South Georgia Motorsports Park

It’s time for Lights Out 17, Winter’s favorite radial race, and thanks to NC Promoder we can all watch testing and highlights as Monday and Tuesday had teams doing shakedown hits to see...

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Save $800 With This Harbor Freight Tool Box Hack! Build Your Own Custom Big Box On The Cheap

Harbor Freight is now the largest retail tool store in the country, and for good reason. They have been offering tools at cheap prices for decades, but in recent years took full advantage of the...

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First Round 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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TX2K21 Day Two: A 7-second Viper, 4-Rotor Mazda, And All Kinds Of Crazy!

It’s Day 2 coverage from TX2K21, thanks to our dudes at 1320Video. Kyle and Fred and the crew were running around taking it all in, racing Kyles car, and just having an awesome time. We love...

Weird, But The Good Kind Of Weird? The Canoo Electric Pickup Is Looking To Bring Forward Control All The Way Back

(By Tom Lohnes) – Have you ever wanted an old VW Type 2 Pickup, except modernized and with 600 electric horses? Now you do. Meet the Canoo Electric Pickup, yet another upstart in the EV truck...

Engine Autopsy: This Detailed Disassembly And Analysis Of A Blown UP Twin Turbo LS Engine Is Awesome

We have seen many engines broken and torn down here at Banghift but this video from Australia is pretty great. Why? Not only do we see the engine pulled down but we also see the data acquisition...

The Start Of The Beginning or The Beginning Of The End? This 1989 SUV Buy’er Guide Video Shows The Start Of The SUV Craze

In an automotive universe completely dominated by the SUV, CUV, and LUV (lame utility vehicle) segment, it stands to reason that this whole ball got rolling somewhere, right? Well, that somewhere is...

Meziere Enterprises Bottle Clamps For Variety Of Racing Applications

Clamps may seem like one of the simple items in and on your race car and something that you probably shop at the lowest possible dollar but allow us to gently tell you that if  you’re doing it...

Is Lancia Coming Back To The USA? It Sure Seems Like It – What Models Will They Bring?

(By Tom Lohnes) – Lancia has had a seemingly tough couple of decades. From making the Group B rally monsters of the 1980’s, and even some cool cars from the 90’s, Lancia makes one car, and...

Finnegan Finally Drives His Body Dropped C10 After The 6 Day Thrash!

It’s about time! The boys thrashed like mad men to get the truck ready for the road trip to MRC Fabrication where they were supposed to show up with it and then pick up the Cadillac....

TX2K Day 1 From 1320Video: 200mph races, Kyle’s FIRST R8 passes, & MORE!

TX2K is a huge event nowadays, but I remember the early days when almost all of the coverage you’d see from the event was coming from 1320Video and most people hadn’t even heard of it....

Full Pro Mod Recap From The Mid West Drag Racing Series Xtreme Texas Nationals!

This weekends Xtreme Texas Nationals at XRP in Ferris Texas was the first stop for the Mid West Drag Racing Series in 2021 and boy was it a good one. With Funny Cars, Pro Mods, Top Dragsters, Top...

Making Formed Carbon Fiber Parts At Home! This Is Super Cool And We Want To Do It!

We’ve featured Carbon Fiber fabrication videos from Street Bandito before, but this one is cooler yet. The process for building this small part can totally be replicated for something bigger,...

Repairing a 10,000hp Top Fuel Billet Engine Block – Not Horribly Hard, But Easy To Do Wrong

Aluminum top fuel blocks from Alan Johnson Performance Engineering, Brad Anderson Enterprises, and the like are all machined with “windows” that are thinner areas of the block that are...

The Raddest Rigs of King of the Hammers: Gambler 500 Benz, Chevy Blazer and Rock Crawlers

I’ve repeatedly told you all just how cool King of the Hammers is, and here is even more proof. Besides all the killer race rigs, there are TONS of killer rigs that regular folks show up in to...

The Car Hauler Trailer Rebuild Continues: Demo Is Done, Design Is Coming Along, And New Stuff Is Being Delivered!

They are back with Part 2 of the trailer rebuild and we can’t wait to see this thing come along. What’s the plan? Take one useable but not pretty gooseneck car trailer and add some living...

Richard Is On The Hunt For More Wrecking Yard Engines. Will He Find The Elusive Ameri-Barra?

Nobody does a better job of finding engines in the wrecking yard than Richard Holdener. He’s got a nose for it. Of course our very favorite late model wrecking yard helps because they have a...