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The Goodwood Festival Of Speed Is LIVE Right Here Right Now!

Check this out! If you haven’t ever seen the Goodwood Festival of Speed, then you have been missing out. But this event gets better and better each year, with more and more coverage and content, which means it has never been better for all of you to check it out and see the action, the history, and the cars. This is a special event that is unlike anything else. It is all about historic race cars and driving them up a “driveway” at speed without crashing them. It’s ultra-famous and is one of THE must attend European motorsports events, right up there with Monaco, Silverstone, and other epic F1 races. Check it out.

Here is the video description:

After a hiatus in 2020 the Festival of Speed presented by Mastercard is back! This is the full live stream of all four days of action from the legendary Goodwood Hill. In it you’ll find the stars of F1, the latest supercar debuts, celebrations of The Meastros – Motorsport’s Game Changers, Mario Andretti, Roger Penske, Lotus, and the whole history of motorsport. The weekend will be rounded off as usual by the incredible timed shootout, so don’t miss a second.

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Awesomely Weird: This 1970s Chevrolet Parts Film Stars Evel Knievel And Literally Makes No Sense

Apr 24, 2021Apex Video, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, FUNNY STUFF, HISTORIC, MISC, Videos

Awesomely Weird: This 1970s Chevrolet Parts Film Stars Evel Knievel And Literally Makes No Sense

We’re guessing someone lost their job for this one. You are going to watch this 1970s Chevrolet parts film which stars Evel Knivel and makes literally no sense at all. The theme of the film is “conflict” and it is illustrated by a series of scenes where animals eat other animals, black and white movies are shown, and Evel Knievel jumps stuff on his motorcycle, sometimes crashing, sometimes not. Throw in a dose of 1970s Anchoman-level hilarity with a bikini-clad woman, and you have yourself one of the most singular odd things we have ever seen.

Make no mistake, Knievel would never turn down a gig, especially one with Chevrolet that likely was a great payday for reading some cue-cards. The company definitely did not hire him for his suave acting ability because this dude is straight up stiff while narrating the action. By action, we mean the bizarre things we are shown on screen.

Oddly, while Chevrolet parts are mentioned a handful of times there’s barely (if ever) a Chevrolet car shown as a prop in the film. This whole thing is some weirdo theater of the mind that was likely schemed up by an executive’s kid. “Hey Johnson, get my son a job in the media department and let him run wild!”

Obviously, Knievel was majorly famous at this point and his star only grew bigger. Note that he mentions that someday, “I’ll jump a mile….” we all know how that quest ended.

You have to see this one to believe it.

Press play to see the weirdest Chevrolet Parts video ever made, starring Evel Knievel!

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Wicked Fast Isle Of Man TT Motorcycle Racing Footage – Near Miss, Crazy Action

Apr 03, 2021Apex Spotlight, Apex Video, CRASH & BURN, RACING & ACTION, Videos

Wicked Fast Isle Of Man TT Motorcycle Racing Footage – Near Miss, Crazy Action

The Isle of Man TT is arguably the most bad ass motorcycle race on the planet. It just is. Held on public roads, with bikes of all kinds in a variety of classes, the entire place shuts down during race time and the spectators line the roads like little school kids waiting for the ice cream man. This is some epic stuff here folks and if you have never seen it before then be inspired to do something crazy right here. Keep in mind, the Isle of Man is not some place full of modern 4 lane roads and a road course like when a Grand Prix comes to a major city. No, we’re talking small roads, rock walls, lots of bumps that become huge jumps, and very very few barricades. That means that lots of people are standing with nothing but the small farmers fence or small wall around their yards between them and motorcycles going 150-200 mph. Yeah, it’s that kind of awesome.

Watch the video, love the action, and also enjoy the reactions of some of the people who have never been this close to the action before. You’ll see the look of shock on their faces, their hair blowing in the wind as bikes go by at break neck speeds, and the fun things that come out of their mouths after seeing them go by. This is fun stuff.

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Ever Want To Know What Goes Into Building A 410 Sprint Car Engine? World Of Outlaws Power Starts Here!

Feb 22, 2021Apex Engine Tech, Apex Spotlight, Apex Tech Stories, Apex Video

Ever Want To Know What Goes Into Building A 410 Sprint Car Engine? World Of Outlaws Power Starts Here!

410 Sprint Car engines are pretty bad ass bullets that make more than 900 horsepower, naturally aspirated, on methanol. When you bolt one into a car that weighs just 1,400 lbs, you can imagine that the rate of acceleration is somewhere around “Oh Hell Yeah!” Or maybe it’s more like “No F’ing Way!”. I’m not sure, I haven’t driven one yet. But I can tell you that I’ve seen 410 sprint engines on several occasions and there is nothing about them that is left to chance. These engines are highly sophisticated works of art that feature mechanical fuel injection, trick aluminum heads, plenty of compression, and the ability to spin like none other so as to pull of the corner as hard as possible. They are works of art, and this is a rare glimpse into what really goes into making one tick.

Check out this great video from Speedway Motors, you’ll dig it.

Here is the info from the video description.

How do you build an engine capable of powering a Sprint Car on the Outlaw tour? Or one worthy of the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame? Running at 8000rpm night after night requires a pretty trick set up. Engines in this class get the best of the best. Zach Woods, engine builder at Speedway Motors Racing Engines, built this beauty from the block up. We could listen to Zach talk engines all day. Zach starts with a beautiful aluminum Donovan 410 block, a Callies Magnum XL crankshaft, Clevite coated bearings, Dyer’s rods and CP Pistons. A Huggins camshaft actuates the Manley titanium valves in 1 Way Technologies’ Type 60 heads. Isky EZ-Roll Red-Zone Lifters, steel T&D Rocker Arms, Trend pushrods and Manley Super Finish valve springs get installed for guaranteed endurance and stability at high rpm’s. Zach tops this work of art with a Kinsler SBC Beast injector and Speedway Motors Racing Engines valve covers. Like just about every other sprint car on the Outlaw tour, Zach runs an MSD Pro Mag.

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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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Classic YouTube: Rod Millen And Nobuhiro Tajima Running Pikes Peak In 1996

Nov 04, 2020Apex Video, BangShift APEX, HISTORIC, RACING & ACTION, Videos

Classic YouTube: Rod Millen And Nobuhiro Tajima Running Pikes Peak In 1996

If you are sitting at the starting line for your chance to tear up Pikes Peak, have no doubt in your mind that you are either exceptionally talented or exceptionally brave. Or both. Without question, every year the pack of racers will be a group of “best of the best” drivers who will attack the mountain course with all that they can muster out of themselves and the machines they have sank hope, hours and tons of emotions and money into. No matter that the entire highway is paved…that means precious little when you can look off the edge and see a drop that will require you to take a breath in-between screams before you hit the bottom. But that doesn’t deter drivers…if anything, it entices them as a challenge.

Two names that are strongly tied to Pikes Peak are Rod Millen and Nobuhiro “Monster” Tajima. Millen has held the fastest time on the mountain five times and had ran the course before partial paving projects removed some of the dirt sections of the course. His goal was to break the ten-minute mark, but he never made that. Still, watching him fling around monsters like this radical 850 horsepower Toyota Celica sillouhette racer on the dirt was something to behold. The Celica had an underfloor diffuser that sucked the Celica to the ground, causing the car to blow up rooster tails of dust wherever it went.

Tajima ended up breaking Millen’s speed record, one that stood for thirteen years, in 2007. He broke the ten-minute time in 2011. “Monster”, his nickname, has run cars with dual engines, heavily turbocharged mills, and electric race cars. This was a man who built his own car, that might have used a grille from a Suzuki Escudo (Sidekick) and pretty much nothing else, and was powered by two 1.6L four-bangers that together made a snorting, pissed off 900 horsepower. Tajima did not screw around with his designs.

From start to finish, these two titans went after each other, the mountain and the clock, trying to hit that seemingly mythical sub-10 minute time. Hit play below and check it out!

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Master Class: This Video From Full Boost On Building High Horsepower Street Engines Is Spectacular

Sep 22, 20201320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, Apex Video, BangShift 1320, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, ENGINE, ENGINES, MISC, Tech Stories, Videos

Master Class: This Video From Full Boost On Building High Horsepower Street Engines Is Spectacular

This is the opposite of a kind of wham-bam engine building video. If anything this is a slow moving, artfully edited, content packed trip through the mind, manner, and process of a truly awesome engine builder as he assembles a killer street engine for a customer. We’re talking about an 800hp naturally aspirated engine that lands in an amazing Ford Falcon XB in Australia.

The engine builder is also a well known Aussie in the form of Frank Marchese at Dandy Engines. We have shown you zillions of videos from Australia that have dandy engines front and center in drag race cars, street cars, burnout cars and more. This time it’s a killer pro touring style car that gets the bullet he builds.

This video isn’t about torque specs and that kind of thing, it’s way more about creating the package that will make the power and make it in a way that the customer can use and enjoy. There’s a great walk through the parts and pieces, the processes that Frank employs, and all of that good stuff.

To us, this is an engine video on the next level. If you truly appreciate the time and effort that go into crafting something like this, you’ll dig the video. Much like building an engine, the stuff that takes time and requires an eye for detail can define the ultimate success of the project. This is a wonderful piece to watch.

Press play below for a legit master class in engine building – wonderful video –

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Teardown Video: Watch A Chrysler A-833 Four-Speed Come To Pieces (On Purpose)

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Back On The Buick: Here’s A Lost Episode Of The Hagerty Straight Eight Redline Rebuild Series

Jun 18, 20201320 Videos, Apex Video, BangShift 1320, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, ENGINE, RACING & ACTION, TECH, Tech Stories, Videos

Back On The Buick: Here’s A Lost Episode Of The Hagerty Straight Eight Redline Rebuild Series

We’ve been jonesing for an update on the Hagerty Buick Straight Eight Redline Rebuild project from Hagerty of late. With the whole social distancing and other junk it’s stopped a lot of these projects in their tracks. Thankfully there was some footage that had been overlooked and has not been found. This episode takes us back to the machine shop and shows a few interesting things regarding the cylinder head  that is going back on the engine.

Between the CC work that is done, the porting and polishing, and other touching that’s handled on the head, the different in volume is interesting. There’s actually some CC volume to be made back with a fresh set of modern valves as the factory ones have a huge dish in them and actually add a fairly large amount of volume to the chamber.

This is neat stuff as we have never messed with an inline eight. Having not been down this road before we get the feeling that we learn something from every one of the series videos. This engine has been a toughie since the start of the project but the progress, while slow, is being made.

The head looks at lot better at the end than at the start. Sporty!

Press play to see an update on the Buick Straight eight Redline Rebuild –

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