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RideTech Mecum Auction Update!
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GM Claims ZL1 Camaro Will Be Faster Than Mustang GT 500 Despite Horsepower Defecit
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Wild Video: Helmet-Cam Video of a Dirt Bike Rider Scaling a Mountain
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Neato Video: Running a Flathead V8 Without a Cylinder Head!
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Drag Video: Running 8.70s with a Turbocharged and Nitrous Injected 1.8L Motor!
RideTech Mecum Auction Update!
(Words and photos by Bret Voelkel) - Ridetech Update 2 The Ridetech crew is at the Mecum Auction selling our 1967 Chevelle SS. Bret Voelkel, president of Ridetech, sent in his second report from the Mecum auction this afternoon:“I’ve been to the Barrett-Jackson auction in Scottsdale several times…that is one fun event, I don’t [...]
GM Claims ZL1 Camaro Will Be Faster Than Mustang GT 500 Despite Horsepower Defecit
The Mustang/Camaro cat fight is heating up with GM’s recent claims that the ZL1 Camaro, despite what will amount to a 70hp disadvantage, will sprint to 60mph quicker than the upcoming 650hp Mustang GT500. Chief Al Oppenheimer also mentioned the fact that both Ford and GM have run their cars around the ‘Ring over in [...]
Wild Video: Helmet-Cam Video of a Dirt Bike Rider Scaling a Mountain
Tiny HD sports/action cameras have truly revolutionized the way us gearheads get to experience the triumphs and follies of our fellow brothers in arms. With companies like ReplayXD cranking out cameras that are about the size of a common battery and can be mounted anywhere, we get to go places that we have never gone [...]
Neato Video: Running a Flathead V8 Without a Cylinder Head!
This video cracked us up and had us pressing play multiple times just to gawk. It starts with a closeup shot of a running Ford flathead V8 that sounds as though it has a big time miss. As the camera man pans around the mill we quickly discover it does have a big miss, because [...]
Drag Video: Running 8.70s with a Turbocharged and Nitrous Injected 1.8L Motor!
It seems like we’re on an Aussie drag racing video kick, but bitchin’ stuff keeps jumping off the computer screen at us. Since the whole seasons thing is a swap with the southern hemisphere, the guys down in Oz are in the middle of summer and rightfully are racing like their hair is on fire. [...]
The Parting Shift: Gear Banging Awesomeness in a 1964 Impala!
Posted in RACING & ACTION January 27, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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There’s nothing cooler than a full-boogie barge with a stick box. This in-car video, taken at Atco Dragway in New Jersey shows a really beautiful 1964 Impala race car getting hammered on the strip by a flat footed racer. The car sports what looks like a full stock interior, roll bar, and a five speed [...]
Question of the Day: What is the Most Boneheaded Thing You Have Ever Done While Showing Off in Your Car?
Posted in BangShift Question Of The Day?? January 27, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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With all the news coming out about the sinking of the cruise ship Costa Concordia, the root cause is looking more and more like a simple act of bad judgement on behalf of the captain who may have been showing off to impress someone or a group of people. While his gaffe is one of the [...]
Racing Junk Find: A Big Tire 2010 Camaro that DOESN’T Look Like a Pro Stocker
Posted in General News January 27, 2012 by Chad Reynolds
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If you can’t get lost on Racing Junk and spend countless hours looking at stuff you want, dream about, or need, then you should probably be reading another website. Try Edmunds or Motor Trend. When we opened up RJ this week, the thing that first grabbed us was this cool 2010 Camaro. Unlike most big [...]
Wild Rolling Wreckage Video: A Vintage Road Racer is Saved From Certain Death By a Good Cage
Posted in CRASH & BURN January 27, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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A couple weeks back we showed you video of a replica Shelby Cobra racer cheating death when his car rolled. That guy did not have any sort of roll cage protection around him, but the guy in this video does. The wrecks are eerily similar in the fact that a rear end failure caused them, [...]
New Product: Twisted Wedge Track Heat 170 Small Block Ford Heads from Trick Flow
Posted in General News January 27, 2012 by Chad Reynolds
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At the 2012 Motorsports Parts Manufacturers Council Media Conference, we’ve had the chance to touch and feel some great new parts. Trick Flow Specialties announced their new Twisted Wedge and Twisted Wedge Track Heat 170 heads for Small Block Ford at the 2011 SEMA Show, but this was our first chance to really put our [...]
Caption The Photo: The Traction at This Place Sucks!
Posted in General News January 27, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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BangShift reader Ronnie Mankins sent us this wild photos of Oregon’s Woodburn Dragstrip under a few feet of water. We know of several strips that are built close to water and occasionally become ponds, streams, and rivers. Lebanon Valley Dragway in New York, Beech Bend Raceway in Bowling Green, Kentucky, the old Red River Raceway [...]
Cool Product: American Powertrain’s X-Factor Universal Stretch Cross Member
Posted in Sponsor News January 27, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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After cruising the halls of the MPMC conference all week and checking out all kinds of cool transmissions, fitment questions are swirling in the front of our minds. There are lots of near crash boxes out there, but for the average guy, getting all the necessary pieces to actually bolt them into a car can [...]
Bitchin New Product: McLeod Racing Unveils the Baddest Big Power Clutch on Earth
Posted in General News January 27, 2012 by Chad Reynolds
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Let’s face it, we are easily excited around here, and have exaggerated on a few occasions. This is NOT one of those times. Without question, the new McLeod Pro Series Clutch is the baddest of the bad. This bad boy will handle up to 3000, yes 3000 horsepower and is available with a single, dual, [...]
RideTech Mecum Auction Update!
Posted in General News January 27, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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(Words and photos by Bret Voelkel) - Ridetech Update 2 The Ridetech crew is at the Mecum Auction selling our 1967 Chevelle SS. Bret Voelkel, president of Ridetech, sent in his second report from the Mecum auction this afternoon:“I’ve been to the Barrett-Jackson auction in Scottsdale several times…that is one fun event, I don’t [...]
BangShift Engine Tech: How a programmable ignition can make anyone look like a pro
BangShift.com is proud to announce that we have partnered with Westech Performance Group to bring you killer engine tech in 2011! From the complicated to the just plain fun, we’ll have it all right here at BangShift.com, so stay tuned for more. We started off with two solid days on the Superflow Dyno, along with [...]
Bonneville Video: The Flower of Scotland – An International Streamliner Team on the Salt
Posted in RACING & ACTION January 26, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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The lure of the Bonneville knows no bounds and creates some interesting partnerships among gearheads. This video is a very neat look at the Flower of Scotland streamliner team and profiles their efforts to set a 300+ mph record on the salt with a motorcycle powered ‘liner. The team is led by an Englishman, has [...]
ADRL SuperCar Showdown Class Open to Far More Than Chevy/Dodge/Ford Models
Posted in General News January 26, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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In a recent announcement, the ADRL sought to clarify their upcoming SuperCar Showdown class. We, like lots of other people took this class to be a haven for the factory drag race cars from the Detroit manufacturers, when in fact is is open to an amazing array of vehicles. The ADRL recently sent out a [...]
Traxxas Sponsorship Brings Back $100,000 Top Fuel and Funny Car Shootouts!
While we were working the annual MPMC show here in Los Angeles, just down the road in Glendora, the NHRA was dropping a huge news bomb and for once in recent memory, it was good news! It turns out that Traxxas has stepped up to become a major sponsor for the NHRA and within that [...]
Death Wish Video: Dirt Bike Rider Tempts the Grim Reaper on the Peak of a Mountain
Posted in RACING & ACTION January 26, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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Yesterday we showed you video of a dirt bike rider scaling a huge “mountain” of dirt and rocks. Well, that video was child’s play compared to this one, which features the same rider driving along the peak of what looks to be another massive mountain. There are times that this guy almost loses it and [...]
eBay Find: A Bizarre 1933 Ford Pickup Made Completely of Teak Wood
The 1970s were a strange time. New cars were all total crap, gasoline was stupid expensive, inflation was hauling ass, and people were building classic cars out of wood. We’ve seen more than one wooden car in our time trolling eBay over the years but this creation, a 1933 Ford truck set on a 1970 [...]
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