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Motion Raceworks Rocky Mountain Race Week Daily Coverage: Day One Action From Thunder Valley

Sep 25, 20211320 Event Coverage, 1320 Spotlight, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, DRAG RACES, Event Coverage, RACING & ACTION, Videos

Motion Raceworks Rocky Mountain Race Week Daily Coverage: Day One Action From Thunder Valley

Rocky Mountain Race Week is in the books, and we were traveling the route with all these folks so we could bring you the FREE livestream that we had going all week long. It was a week full of fun, adventures, carnage, and more, but even if you were there you wouldn’t have been able to see it all. There is that much going on! But thanks to the folks at Motion Raceworks we’ve got more cool video coverage from the entire week and we’re going to share it all with you one day at a time. They were on-site with their parts merch trailer and were helping people out with great stuff all week long. This is the first video from Day One at Thunder Valley in Noble Oklahoma, which means everyone is racing and there is no on road carnage or anything yet. This is the day where everyone thinks everything is great and that they can win this whole thing. Spirits are high. At least until the racing gets going.

Why? Because some of these poor folks are going to tear their stuff up before they ever get to leave the first track. The good news is that they have all night to work on them because we don’t leave for the next track until the next morning, and the drive isn’t horrible from Thunder Valley to the Texas Motorplex in Ennis. Plus, there is the World’s Largest Summit Racing Equipment store on the way and it’s full of great parts to fix most anything.

Between Summit and the Motion Raceworks trailer full of parts, there was no shortage of new stuff going on hot rods Sunday night.

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: The 2nd Annual Independence Showdown From Maple Grove Is LIVE!

Jul 03, 20211320 Event Coverage, 1320 Videos, RACING & ACTION, Videos

FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: The 2nd Annual Independence Showdown From Maple Grove Is LIVE!

Nothing is more American on the 4th of July weekend than drag racing! At least for the folks who have headed out to Maple Grove this weekend for some great bracket racing. It’s the 2nd Annual Pep Boys Speed Shop and Off Road Independence Showdown, and the car count is great. Racers from all over have shown up to race for real money this weekend, because what is better than winning big on Independence Day?

Here is the video description from our friends at MotorManiaTV:

For the first time on MMTV, we welcome the 2nd event from the FRBR Promotions team. Known for their Door Wars race in the fall, last year they decided to expand to 2 races with the Inaugural Independence Showdown. With $15,000 going to Top Eliminator, $7,500 to No-Box and $1,500 to the Jr Dragster class each day, there will be plenty of happy people by the end of the weekend!

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Update: We Got More Info On Wes Littrell’s Home Built Retro Drag Special. Its Ford Powered, Blown, And Hauls Ass. We Love It!

Apr 20, 20211320 Cars With Doors Feature, 1320 Drag Racing Feature, 1320 Spotlight, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, RACING & ACTION, Videos

Update: We Got More Info On Wes Littrell’s Home Built Retro Drag Special. Its Ford Powered, Blown, And Hauls Ass. We Love It!

I wish I had more to tell you about Wes Littrell’s bitchin machine, but it was like pulling teeth to get any details from the guy that sent us the video link. What I do know is that this sucker is home built, has the feeling of an C-cab roadster with a touch of comp coupe and some funny car thrown into the mix. Who knows what the inspiration was, but I do like it. The video below shows a couple of runs at Bonne Terre Dragstrip In Bonne Terre, Missouri where this bad boy is running in the 4’s. I think these are some of the first runs with this one because it is a little soft early and definitely not running as hard as we bet it ultimately can. It certainly doesn’t seem like he’s leaving off the trans brake, so I think these sucker will be a bad ass when set on kill.

We do know that it has 588 cubic inches of Ford between the frame rails, and the blower on top of it is a 14-71 which we totally approve of. The mechanical injection isn’t a bad touch either. I know nothing about the trans and the rest of the drivetrain, but I expect it’s got a C6 and a 9 inch.

Editor’s Note: After posting this up yesterday we got an email from Wes with more info about the car, as well as some cool photos.

Here is what Wes sent us.

This is Wes Littrell the owner of the truck. It’s completely homemade 588 ci BBF powered, A460 block, 10.5-1 comp,   Trickflow A460 heads, eliminator blower intake, Littlefield hi helix mag blower, 15% over. 14 lbs of boost. Very mild tune. Powerglide transmission built by me with all parts and converter supplied by BTE. It weighs around 2900 with the driver. I built and fabricated everything. Engine, transmission, narrowed the rear axle, strut front end and all the chassis. The 4.90’s passes were footbrake with slicks that are completely shot. I appreciate you sharing the footage. Here’s a picture from a couple years ago from Street Outlaws. It was when it was a pickup with a straight axle and 618 alcohol injected engine. Ran 5.30’s back then. I have three race trucks. One had the 618 in it and looks very similar and the other one is the twin engine that looks like the pickup. I believe that you guys shared a video of them a couple years ago. I also have three homemade tow rigs. I just enjoy fabrication and being different.

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Happy 4/21 – Let’s Celebrate The Mighty Pontiac 421 That Melted Tires From 1961-1966

Street Racing Action From The Small Tire Short Notice KC Cash Days In Mexico

Apr 18, 20211320 Videos, RACING & ACTION, Videos

Street Racing Action From The Small Tire Short Notice KC Cash Days In Mexico

The Wyco Racing Small Tire Short Notice Cash Days event looked to have a very diverse group of racers ready to throw down on the street. The location was interesting as well, and in this great video from Urban Hillbilly Videos you’ll get to see all the action from start to finish. And like I said, there are some interesting cars at this one. Sure you are going to see Camaros and Mustangs and Novas oh my, but you are also going to see interesting imports, Mopars, trucks, and more. This is a cool video that is fun to watch. And the road? WTF are they thinking? This thing goes up and then down before a huge hill after the finish line. I guess it helps you slow down quick, but man it looks like a weird place to race.

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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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This Snowmobile Vs. Jetski Chase Video Proves That Anything Goes In Finland!

Nov 29, 2020FUNNY STUFF, RACING & ACTION, Videos

This Snowmobile Vs. Jetski Chase Video Proves That Anything Goes In Finland!

I should’ve known it from the moment I saw the action kick off. Two jet ski riders and a guy who is driving…not skipping across, like we’ve seen, but actually driving…a snowmobile on water. Like it’s a normal freaking thing…it’s just another day in Lahti, or Kuopio, or Kajaani, nothing to see here. Intended to be a Hollywood style chase scene, what we really have is a Finn on a sled, on water,  telling physics to eff itself. At several points we were expecting to see the snowmobile dip just a little bit too far below the water and risk hydrolock, but the rider, Joni Maununen, does a superb job of keeping everything together and right at sea level.

I’m calling it right now: the only reason you don’t see Finnish actors in American action movies is due to the language barrier. That’s it. And that’s sad. If Arnold Schwarzenegger can overcome a thick Austrian accent and do all that he did, certainly a wiry Finn with little regard for personal safety can make it big as an action star.

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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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Classic YouTube: An Odd Fight Between A 5.4/5-speed Crown Victoria and…a Mercury Villager

Sep 02, 2020RACING & ACTION, Videos

Classic YouTube: An Odd Fight Between A 5.4/5-speed Crown Victoria and…a Mercury Villager

From Sanair Super Speedway’s dragstrip in Quebec, we bring you one of the strangest heads-up races we’ve seen in a while. In the left lane is a 5.4-powered Ford Crown Victoria that has been converted to row-yer-own by using a Tremec 3650. Pier, the man behind the YouTube channel “p71c1” is well-known in the Panther world as one of the big proponents of doing the manual-trans swap on the big cars and he builds them to drive…violently. Given the number of Crown Vics that he’s messed with (according to my research), it’s impossible for me to tell which particular car he’s running, but it sounds healthy and launches off of the line cleanly.

In the other lane? A Mercury Villager. Yes, that rolling abomination of a minivan is in the other lane. But it’s packing one pissed off 351 and is in a hurry to dispatch the big Ford with prejudice. The result of this race? The Vic ran a [email protected] with a 1.989 sixty foot. The Mercury blasted out a [email protected] MPH. Take it from me, I’d love to watch Brian announce this particular race in person.

Click play and watch a lead sled with muscle take on a minivan on ‘roids!

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Bonneville Speed Week Video: Record Setting Runs And Muscle Cars On The Salt During Speed Week 2020

Aug 30, 2020Event Coverage, LAND SPEED RACES, RACING & ACTION, Videos

Bonneville Speed Week Video: Record Setting Runs And Muscle Cars On The Salt During Speed Week 2020

What truly makes Bonneville Speed Week special is the variety of vehicles that you see hauling ass down the salt. Different body styles, different engine combos, and different visions are what Bonneville Speed Week is all about, and it is what people who come for the first time always comment on. There are so many classes, so many combos within those classes, and so much flexibility in how you build your perfect race car for Speed Week, that there is no way that any two are exactly the same. Streamliners, Lakesters, door cars, roadsters, and sports cars just scratch the surface as there are so many different classes, variations, and interpretations of each of these classifications. When you watch the two videos below, one that is all record runs from Bonneville Speed Week 2020, and the other that is nothing but Muscle Cars on the salt, you’ll get to see just how cool this place is and just how cool the racing is.

Watch and see what you think and tell us what vehicle in these videos is your favorite. Would you rather drive a streamliner down the salt? A lakester? That’s like a streamliner but with the wheels hanging out. Or a door car? Maybe a roadster?

Watch and tell us what you think.

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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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