NHRA Insider Podcast: A Crew Chief and A Top Fuel Champion Tell All – Rob Flynn and Steve Torrence
On this episode of the NHRA Insider Podcast, crew chief Rob Flynn and top fuel world champion Steve Torrence join Brian Lohnes. Flynn tells his story of how he got into drag racing, how he worked his...
Playing With Blocks: This Update On The Hagerty Cadillac Build Concentrates on Block Machining, Piston and Rod Assembly, More
The Hagerty Cadillac 365 engine project that we’ve ben following has been updated! This video is all about measuring, boring, and preparing the important basics of any engine for a long life....
Garage Fab Project: Building Rock Sliders For Your Off-Road Rig At Home
When you are first starting on your fabrication skills you typically start off with small brackets and projects that are of a smaller scale. But when it’s time to step up and start doing bigger...
Cheap E-Bay Caddy Blower For LS Engines Made Easy! Pump Gas Boost Baby!
These Cadillac superchargers that came on the STS-V and XLR-V, with the 4.4L LC3 Northstar engine, are a pretty cool little supercharger and they are flooding the market for sale cheap. Apparently...
Check Out All The Custom Cars, Classics, And Muscle Cars From Lone Star Throwdown 2021
LST is known for being one of the best custom truck shows in the country, and has been for years. And yes, there are jillions of custom trucks of all kinds there, but there are also a fair number of...
Plasma Cutter Or Steel Cutting Circular Saw? Which One Is Better, Straighter, Smoother, Faster, Easier?
Everyone who ever fabricates anything out of metal wants to own a plasma cutter. They are cool, make pretty quick work of cutting most anything, and they are way faster that using a cutoff wheel all...
Timing Tech: Here’s How You Recurve An MSD Distributor. It’s Easier Than You Think, And You Can Do It In Minutes With Just A Couple Tools
Making changes to a distributor has always been one of those jobs that people seem to be afraid of for some reason. Maybe it is because you typically remove the distributor before doing this to it,...
Watch Mike Skinner Lay Down One Of The Quickest Runs In Goodwood History Driving His NASCAR Truck!
As amazing as the Goodwood Festival of Speed is for the pageantry, the history, the setting, and the collection of cars that show up, there’s another element that can kind of get lost and that...
This Is What It Looks Like When A Top Fuel Dragster Clutch Explodes – Nightmare!
A top fuel dragster is an amazing piece of machinery that when working right can do things in an almost beautiful way. The arching chassis, the huge slicks growing as the car heads down the track,...
Wild Carnage Video: Watch Aussie Racer Peter Gratz Spit The Entire Rear Axle Assembly Out From Under His Car
The Australian National Drag Racing Association has a great YouTube page where they post videos from current day races and footage from the era before YouTube. Yes kids, there was an era before...
BangShift Reader Brawl: What Is Your Favorite Magazine Feature Car Of All Time?
As a kid I read all kinds of magazines (still do…not sure if that is OK to admit!) and can remember loving all kinds of feature trucks in 4-Wheel and Off Road, muscle cars, hot rods, and drag...
This Barn Find Z28 Camaro Is Finally Rinsed Off, Checked Out, And All The Extra NOS Parts Inventoried
Last week we showed you this 1974 Z28 Camaro that Chad at Nobody Else’s Auto bought from a guy who’s had it since the 1970’s. They talked about the history and how long the owner...
TIG Welding For Beginners Part 3: Welding Corner Joints Is Fun!
We’ve been sharing a great series on TIG Welding for beginners, and this is the third installment. In the first two videos, which you can get to with the link below, some very important lessons...
