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Alex Taylor Q&A Session: What’s The Name Of The New ’55 Project? Why Are You Doing It That Way? And All Kinds Of Other Questions, Answered Right Here.

Apr 20, 20211320 Drag Racing Feature, 1320 Project Cars, 1320 Spotlight, 1320 Videos

Alex Taylor Q&A Session: What’s The Name Of The New ’55 Project? Why Are You Doing It That Way? And All Kinds Of Other Questions, Answered Right Here.

Alex Taylors New 1955 Chevrolet project is being built with two goals. One is to run in the 6’s in the quarter, and the other is for it to run 200 mph at the same time. Will it do it? Why a twin turbo big block? Why built it all yourself? What is the car’s name? These are just some of the jillions of questions that have been coming in hot and heavy since the start of this project and so this video is going to answer a ton of those questions as Alex and Dennis sit down to tell you even more about this awesome and fun project. If you haven’t been following along on the build, then click the link below to see all the episodes.

And if you have been watching, stay tuned as there will be plenty more build episodes coming over the next few weeks. This thing is supposed to be racing in May!

CLICK HERE IF YOU HAVE MISSED ANY EPISODES

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The Twin Turbocharged Good Luck Charm: This Video Profile Of A Ferrari F40 and Its Owner Rules

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FREE LIVE STREAMING DRAG RACING! We Are LIVE From The Southwest Showdown In Tucson All Weekend!

Mar 06, 20211320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320

FREE LIVE STREAMING DRAG RACING! We Are LIVE From The Southwest Showdown In Tucson All Weekend!

 

That’s right folks, we’re super excited to bring you our FIRST live streaming video broadcast of 2021 starting this Thursday afternoon from Tucson Dragway, home of the Southwest Shootout. With tens of Thousands of dollars on the line, including two special events within the event, someone can take home serious life changing cash this weekend. We’ll be on site setting up Thursday and going live Thursday evening for the first special event of the weekend, the Silver State Refrigeration Stimulus Race. Worth $8,000 to the winner, and with entry included for anyone that enters the entire weekend race and test and tune session Thursday, this is going to be one to watch. I can’t wait. I’ll be on site streaming the entire thing for all of you at home that can’t watch!

Big thanks to Silver State Refrigeration for being our live stream presenting sponsor, and to Holley for continuing to support all our live streaming video efforts in 2021. We also want to thank K&N, Jegs, and all the other sponsors. This weekend promises to be a great event and we are very excited to come back to this event after missing it in 2020. Jim, Matt, and all the staff at Tucson Dragway are super cool folks and great to work with, so we know the event will be a riot. If you are ready for some great racing, then tune in Thursday evening!

And if you aren’t already, then become a Subscriber on our BANGshift YouTube Page. Ring the bell and you will get notified when we go live!

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Long Lost Film Of ’66 Winternationals Found! Sunday Eliminations With Packed Pomona Grandstands!

Jan 31, 20211320 Event Coverage, 1320 NHRA News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320

Long Lost Film Of ’66 Winternationals Found! Sunday Eliminations With Packed Pomona Grandstands!

(Film and Words by Darr Hawthorne ) In 1965 Santa brought me a new 16mm Bolex film camera, rather than using my dad’s cameras any-longer. The first opportunity I had to use it was on the Pomona Raceway starting line at the 1966 NHRA Winternationals, I’d been granted an NHRA photo/media credential with my best friend, at 14 years of age, lucky I know. It was my third time on the line at the Big Go West.

These ten minutes of original footage shows off some of the Top Fuel legends like the Greek, Don Prudhomme, Tom McEwen and Tony Nancy and event winner Mike Snively in Roland Leong’s Hawaiian. Leong recently said of the win, “Thats my wagon (at the end of the video). Must be 1966 and yes we won.” Leong added, “ After that we were on our way out of town going on tour to our first date and a ’55 Chevy towing a ’55 Chevy racecar side swiped a short bridge (while) passing us and then served into us. Wagon ended up upside down, trailer broke off and went about 1/4 mile into the desert. Both ’55 Chevy’s ended up upside down. Thankfully NO ONE got hurt.” Adding, “Thats my story and I’m sticking to it”. 

1966 also presented a showcase to the early evolution from stock-bodied cars into nitro funny cars; Jack Chrisman’s red Comet, Gas Ronda’s Mustang, Maynard Rupp’s rear-engined Hemi-Powered Chevelle, Don Gay’s blown GTO, Steve Bovan’s altered wheelbase Nova, Joe Davis’ Colt 45 Mustang, Preston Honea’s Marlin and Bob Davis in the Jolly Green Giant Impala. These lumbering giants were relegated to the dragster classes, since NHRA had not yet recognized a true funny car class.

Along with them, was Super Stocker Bill “Grumpy” Jenkins in his ’66 Nova and event winner Shirley Shahan’s “Drag-on Lady” Plymouth Fury, the first woman to win a National Eliminator, at this Winternationals. 

There’s Big John Mazmanian and Stone Woods & Cook with a bunch of AA/Gas Supercharged monsters as well as some early Modified and Comp Eliminator cars too, in front of the packed Pomona Raceway grandstands. 

Grab a hot dog and a cold one for ten minutes in the Way Back machine for some long misplaced film from the ’66 Winternationals.

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Small Block Ford Intake Testing – Single vs Dual Plane On Both 351 Cleveland And Windsor

Jan 16, 20211320 Engine Tech, 1320 Tech Story, 1320 Videos, Apex Engine Tech, Apex Tech Stories, Apex Video, ENGINE, ENGINES, Tech Stories, Videos, XL Engine Tech, XL Tech Stories, XL Videos

Small Block Ford Intake Testing – Single vs Dual Plane On Both 351 Cleveland And Windsor

The world of intake manifolds is a diverse one, where dual plane, single plane, tunnel ram, IR, cross ram, long runner and short are available for just about every popular engine combo. And because modern intakes have gotten more and more modular, there are lots of ways to configure intakes for your particular application. But with the increasing number of throttle body fuel injection systems, and the still much larger number running carburetors, the age old discussion of dual plane vs single plane is a valid one. There has always been a belief that single planes are for racing and dual planes are for street cars, but with the ever increasing performance potential that we take advantage of, our street cars are getting more and more powerful all the time. So does the rule still apply? Is single really only good for the race track? Are dual planes only good for a cruiser?

Thanks to our friend Richard Holdener, we’re going to see the results of some testing with both a 351 Cleveland and a 351 Windsor on the dyno at Westech Performance Group. Watch, look at real data, and listen to the conclusions Richard has come to after years of dyno testing. Then use the info to help you make the right parts decisions for your bitchin Ford build.

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Watch The American Door Slammer Nationals LIVE Right Here!

Nov 21, 20201320 Event Coverage, 1320 Spotlight, 1320 Videos

Watch The American Door Slammer Nationals LIVE Right Here!

I’ve driven dragsters, but my first love are door cars. They are fun, can be as quick as you want to go, and they just feel right. I do like the occasional roadster as well, but prefer those with the driver on one side or the other instead of sitting in the middle like a funny car or altered. Good thing for me that the American Door Slammer Nationals are LIVE this weekend thanks to our friends at MotorManiaTV. Any door car. Any left hand drive roadster. Any reason to have fun. This is a must watch event that you won’t want to miss this weekend.

Held at the famed Piedmont Dragway, this Loose Rocker Promotions event is one of the highlights of 2020. During a year where we have all been cooped up and have had so many cancelled events, this is one of those that feels really good to see happening before we get into the final weekends of racing for 2020. This is going to be a year to remember for sure, and whoever wins this event is going to remember it because of the real money they got to put into their pocket.

Watch all the racing LIVE today and tomorrow right here. And thanks again to MotorManiaTV for sharing this great action with the world for FREE!

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Awesome Build: Watch This Operational Scale Model Of A Rotary Engine Constructed With Lego Blocks!

Nov 09, 20201320 Videos, Apex Video, BangShift 1320, BangShift APEX, ENGINES, FUNNY STUFF, MISC, Videos

Awesome Build: Watch This Operational Scale Model Of A Rotary Engine Constructed With Lego Blocks!

This is easily one of the most awesome Lego builds we have ever seen. We know we had some rotary stuff on the front page today already but this is in a different league. The whole engine is custom built from the imagination of the guy snapping the blocks together, to start. This is not a kit, this is not something already made a video about. From the creation of the rotor itself to the fact that this thing has “spark plugs” intake and exhaust ports, the right eccentric travel and the list goes on and on, your mind will be blown like ours.

There may be kids who watch this video and have a lightbulb come on in their minds about how one of these weird little engines work. In fact, they aren’t so weird when you see a happy little version of one, built of out of Lego blocks whirring away. This guy even went so far as to include the tip seals on the rotor in his build!

The addition of the “spark” light is a big one here because there are some animations that show the cycle of a rotary engine but when he dims the lights and then cranks the engine up with the little cam and rocker arm to trigger the light up block, things go from interesting to completely awesome.

We have no idea how many hours are in this build but what a teaching tool. I watched this with my kids and both of them were able to see what exactly happens inside the engine and they were both 100% more understanding of a rotary engine than they were after I explained it to them 100 times.

THIS is great!

Press play below to see this incredible scale model rotary engine built from Lego!

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The 2nd Annual Working Man’s Ten Grand Race Is On And LIVE Right Now! $10,000 To Win Saturday

Aug 29, 20201320 Event Coverage, 1320 Videos

The 2nd Annual Working Man’s Ten Grand Race $10,000 To Win Sunday

The Working Man’s Ten Grand is a great drag racing event. In it’s second year, this event has been moved to Kil-Kare Raceway just outside of Dayton, Ohio and is drawing the best and the brightest this weekend to see who can throw down and take home today’s $10,000 winner’s prize. In a time when a few races a year have hundreds of thousands, or even millions of dollars on the line, the $10,000 to $50,000 bracket races sometimes don’t grab the public’s attention as much, but $10,000 is no chump change. I remember when the biggest hitters in the bracket racing world first started making over $100,000 per year by winning $10,000 – $25,000 races throughout the year. You have to remember, that in the bracket racing world it is a crap shoot as to whether or not the pot gets split and when. Some guys may split with 8 cars left and the winner only get’s $5,000 or something. There is a lot going on besides all the talent and action on the race track and that makes it interesting that’s for sure.

Thanks to our friends at MotorManiaTV, we have great coverage coming to you all day from Kil-Kare, so if you are in the mood for some good drag racing, here it is. Door cars are my favorite, and there are great varieties running here this weekend, so stay tuned in and watch.

Below is Sunday’s video player, and below that is Saturday in case you missed any of the action.

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The Green Light: WebMD Highlights Paul Lee’s Journey Back To Driving A Funny Car After A Heart Attack.

Jul 18, 20201320 Spotlight, 1320 Videos

The Green Light: WebMD Highlights Paul Lee’s Journey Back To Driving A Funny Car After A Heart Attack.

When our friend, and owner of McLeod and FTI, Paul Lee had his heart attack back in 2016 the NHRA Drag Racing community was shocked. Paul was one of these in-shape guys that you never expected to have a massive heart attack. When it became clear that this heart attack caused major, life changing, damage, Paul went into get back to living mode. That meant massive amounts of physical therapy, conditioning, and more, but with the understanding that none of it would ever allow him to race a Nitro burning hot rod again. His racing career was over, after years of working to get to the very spot he was in right before the heart attack.

He had just signed a deal to race a third Kalitta Motorsports Funny Car and was looking forward to his career in racing moving onward and upward. And then the heart attack took that all away.

We talked to him multiple times afterwards, and can tell you that his attitude toward life and business and growth was amazing, even though he had a very real and apparent disappointment in never getting behind the wheel again. Most people would not have handled it so well.

Imagine his surprise though, when the doctors said his recovery was so good maybe he could make a hit in the race car again! Well that was all he needed to start pushing harder and working with medical staff to see if that could become a genuine reality. Watch this great short film from WebMD to see the journey and learn the story. It’s pretty awesome.

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Rough Start: Add An Extra Grand To The Budget For This Ballsy Dakota R/T!

Project Bottle Rocket Coronet: Uncle Tony’s Featherweight Mopar Project Finally Sees The Track!

Jun 22, 20201320 Videos, BangShift 1320

Project Bottle Rocket Coronet: Uncle Tony’s Featherweight Mopar Project Finally Sees The Track!

I’ve been looking forward to this video more than I think Uncle Tony and Lamchop have…and that’s probably underrating how badly they’ve wanted this video to happen. The “Bottle Rocket” Coronet, their stripped-down taxicab Dodge that’s packing a 318 that acts like a pissed-off 340, a four-speed swap, and a ton of tricks that come straight from the catalog of DeFeo’s book of witchcraft, has been patiently waiting for a chance to hit a drag strip. Now, originally, this should’ve happened months ago, but besides the pandemic, there’s been another wrench in the plans: Lamchop’s cancer treatments. No matter how badly they wanted to get the car to the track, and how badly they wanted to see what it would do, his health takes priority over all. So it’s taken until the start of summer to get the Coronet lined up at the tree.

Now, why was I so antsy to see this? In my back catalog of cars is an infamous item: a 360, four-speed swapped 1987 Dodge Diplomat ex-cop unit that was known as “Warhammer”. When I saw the Coronet rock through the shifts the first time, I had flashbacks like you wouldn’t believe. Warhammer was the first car with any kind of mentionable power that I took to the dragstrip. At a test-and-tune at Temple Academy (read: Little River Dragway), the Diplomat’s one balls-out lap went like this: at the green, I stalled it trying to soft-launch the car. I restarted the car, tried again…and stalled again. I fired it off again and I let the car go fully unleashed. I lost the timeslip years ago, but the ballpark was low-17 seconds at over 110 miles per hour in the quarter. That meant that the Diplomat was nice and potent for an everyday-driver kind of car, and that with a check of tune, some cooler temperatures and a driver that actually knew what the f**k he was doing with three pedals and a shifter, that the Diplomat would be a rocker. The car never saw the strip again. So there is a bit of admiration (and a touch of jealousy, it must be said) for the learning curve that Lamchop is enjoying, because it’s something I didn’t do. Don’t cry for me, I’m planning on rectifying that soon enough.

Now, be sure to listen to the first part of the video…don’t skip ahead straight to the action. And understand that the Coronet isn’t going to be a sideways, smoking bucket of violence the first time out. This is the introductory lesson for Lamchop, and a sorting session for the Dodge. But enjoy it for what it is!

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Unhinged: The Noose Left In Bubba Wallace’s Garage (Warning: Language)

Stealing The Show In Orlando: Watch The Quickest Side By Side Pro275 Pass Ever And Mark Micke’s Record Shattering 3.82 Run!

Jun 01, 20201320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, BangShift News, HISTORIC, MISC, RACING & ACTION, Videos

Stealing The Show In Orlando: Watch The Quickest Side By Side Pro275 Pass Ever And Mark Micke’s Record Shattering 3.82 Run!

There are certain times in drag racing where you can actually pinpoint the moment where a class or category put itself onto the map for good. That moment for the Pro275 class happened last weekend at Orlando Speed World Drag Strip in Florida during Donald Long’s Covid-8 race. The best Pro275 cars in the country were on hand and they were taking advantage of a well prepped course to set records and put on one heck of a show.

These cars are mostly machines from the Radial vs The World class that have elected to run on the smaller 275 width tire and at more weight than they’d be competitive at in RvW. The horsepower, technology, and ability of the cars and the teams is exactly the same as is found in the “bigger” tire class and since so many high profile teams have “made the switch” to the 275 class, its specter in the sport has grown. Now this being said, some of those well known teams struggled to get the hang of the smaller tire and while we knew it wouldn’t take them too long a time, it was a hot second before we saw a weekend like we just witnessed.

Mark Micke wresting the record from the hands of Ron Green was pretty awesome. The former RvW record holder ran 3.82 to better the 3.83 second mark that Green had set during the US Street Nationals in Bradenton, Florida earlier this year. You’ll also see the quickest side by side in the category’s history as well here.

Pro275 is no joke. It never was and it never has been. Now though? Now things have changed. It’s not growing up anymore. That class has officially arrived!

Press play below to watch record setting Pro275 passes at Orlando Speed World –

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