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How To Replace U-Joints With Impact Sockets: Eastwood Shows Us How!
I’ve been changing my own U-Joints for as long as I can remember, and when I was growing up my grandpa changed them all the time in his autoshop. Between him and my dad, that’s how I...
Lawrence Tolman Regears The 8.8 In The COYOTE KILLER For Better Acceleration
Ford’s 8.8 inch rear axles have become a very popular performance choice in not only the cars and trucks that came with them, but also a lot of other rides receiving swaps. Sure, the Ford 9...
In The Market For A New Rearend For Your Ride? Before You Purchase A Rear End Housing…… WATCH THIS!
No matter where you purchase your rear-end housings from, there are some basic questions, measurements, etc that are required before you make an order. With that said, there are also some decisions...
The Alfarrari Project Continues: More Fabrication, More Metal Replacement, And Prepping For Power!
Here are the next 5 videos in the series on this one and it just keeps getting better. I’m feeding you multiple videos at a time so you can make some real headway, and get hooked really easily,...
Stick Shift Tech: How To Index Your Bellhousing For Perfect Manual Transmission Operation
When you buy a manual transmission, a bell housing, a clutch, and the linkage to make it all work, you quickly realize during the installation that there is a lot going on here. It’s not...
Stunning: The All-New Gordon Murray Automotive T.33 Is A Masterwork Of Design And Performance
(By Tom Lohnes) – Professor Gordon Murray is a man of many things. Having designed many Formula 1 cars, and the car nearly everyone heralds as the single best automobile ever made, the Mclaren...
Oil Pan Build: Watch The Neat Transmission For a 1965 Mini Cooper Go Back Together
Learning stuff, whether in person or remotely is pretty awesome. For us, this video fit that bill perfectly because having never climbed under a classic Mini, we had no idea that the transmission was...
Old School Assembly: Watch This Vintage Frankland Quick Change Rear Axle Get Assembled
When it comes to dirt track racing, land speed racing, and even old school drag racing, quick change rear axles have been a thing for many, many years. The ability to make simple, efficient, and...
Saving The Subie: Giving A Bug Eye Subaru WRX A New Lease On Life With A Budget JDM Engine Swap!
(Words and photos by Steve Baur) – Long before I had seen one on the road, I was driving them in the PlayStation game Gran Turismo and watching them race in the FIA World Rally Championship....
Pro Touring Truck: This Profile Of The QA1 New Blue 1972 Ford F100 Will Make You Want A Corner Burning Rig
There was a time a few years back when someone building a pro touring pickup truck was kind of a fun anomaly. The world of hardcore pro touring cars was dominated by traditional machines like...
Moroso Tech Video: Here’s The Theory And Practice Of Oil Pan Trap Door Baffling
It’s Wednesday so we figure that the collective brain of BangShift nation is firing on all cylinders today and is ready to learn. We came across this killer video from Moroso that explains the...
BangShift Tech: Here’s How To Install A Tremec T56 Into A G-Body
(Words and photos by Scott Parker) – As anyone that has perused a G-body or Pro-Touring forum can tell you, there is an easy and established way to transplant a Tremec T56 into a G-body. In...
In The Shop With Emily Video: Watch The Roxy GTO Get A New Mantic Twin Disc Clutch
It has been a while since we’ve heard from our pal Emily Williams who is the woman behind “In the shop with Emily” a web series that follows her adventures of wrenching on and...
Transmission Tech: We Take Two Junk T56 Transmissions, Spare Parts, And New Pieces From American Powertrain To Make One!
(Words and photos by Scott Parker) – There’s just something about taking what other people consider junk, and making something beautiful out of it. We shared this sentiment with Greg Lovell...