Video: Here’s The Best Twin Stick Big Rig Video We Have Ever Seen – Explanation and Operation
Over the years we have showed you a multitude of videos featuring truckers running twin-stick big rigs down the road. Some of them have been funny, some of them painful, but none of them have been really super informative as far as how the boxes were operating and why. Well, that all changes today with […]
The post Video: Here’s The Best Twin Stick Big Rig Video We Have Ever Seen – Explanation and Operation appeared first on BangShift.com.
Soaking Horsepower: This Film From The 1953 Gold Cup Regatta Shows Roaring Hydroplanes In Action!
While we’re not the biggest boat racing fans in the world here we do love old hydroplanes. They looked like proper waterborne hot rods, kind of like the Batmobile, and they always had massive engines in the front of them and a driver sitting out back, trying to manage it all. Basic and brutal, they […]
The post Soaking Horsepower: This Film From The 1953 Gold Cup Regatta Shows Roaring Hydroplanes In Action! appeared first on BangShift.com.
Amazing Video: Watch A Guy Turn An Automotive Air Conditioning Compressor Into A Running 3-Cylinder Engine!
A short while back we showed you a wild video where a guy took the little compressor from a refrigerator and made it into a little working engine. It as fun and crazy and required a lot of brains to pull off. Well that same guy is back and he has stepped up his game, […]
The post Amazing Video: Watch A Guy Turn An Automotive Air Conditioning Compressor Into A Running 3-Cylinder Engine! appeared first on BangShift.com.
Old Tech: This 1940 Video About WWII Piston Aircraft Engines Is Awesome – Internal Engine Tech, History, More!
Warning, you have to be a hardcore dork to love this. Warning, you have to love engines to love this. Warning, you will love it. This video is a study in the typical types of aircraft engines seen by WWII aircraft mechanics during the early parts of the war. What you will immediately notice is […]
The post Old Tech: This 1940 Video About WWII Piston Aircraft Engines Is Awesome – Internal Engine Tech, History, More! appeared first on BangShift.com.
Drag Racing History Video: Scotty Cannon’s Controversial 1992 Lumina Pro Mod in Action
The IHRA created the Pro Modified drag racing class in 1990. Born from the Top Sportsman bracket racing category, the ever plucky IHRA recognized the wild popularity of the various quick eight and quick 16 shootouts that were happening all over the eastern (particularly the southeastern) US and decided to bring that flavor of no-holds-barred […]
The post Drag Racing History Video: Scotty Cannon’s Controversial 1992 Lumina Pro Mod in Action appeared first on BangShift.com.
Extreme Engineering: Take A Ride Across The 120 Year Old, 800ft Tall Gokteik Viaduct Railroad Trestle
Our first reaction upon seeing the Goteik Viaduct train crossing was “no thank you” and then we read more about it and became enamored with its history so we’re kind of wanting to go check this thing out now. It is one of the world’s engineering wonders and the fact that it was built 120 […]
The post Extreme Engineering: Take A Ride Across The 120 Year Old, 800ft Tall Gokteik Viaduct Railroad Trestle appeared first on BangShift.com.
Don’t Think It Would Be Fun To Drive A Pulling Tractor? This Video Will Change Your Mind
While I realize that for many people, tractor pulling stands as a kind of enigmatic activity. Something that seems so basic and straightforward that it couldn’t possibly be hard or require much skill. Those people are missing the whole point and beauty of one of motorsports most nuanced activities. The fury of the pull itself […]
The post Don’t Think It Would Be Fun To Drive A Pulling Tractor? This Video Will Change Your Mind appeared first on BangShift.com.
Good Sounds: This Video Features The Best Sounding Straight Eight Engines In The World
We always key in on the sounds of engines, right? Whether something is running good or bad, whether we have ever heard one run before, or when we know it is an engine that just makes that sweet noise we want to hear more of. Straight eight engines are interesting in the fact that one […]
The post Good Sounds: This Video Features The Best Sounding Straight Eight Engines In The World appeared first on BangShift.com.
Wild Mechanical History Video: The Best Footage We Have Ever Seen Of The 1960s GE Walking Truck – Neat!
It is huge, slow, seemingly unstable, and ultimately it was a failure…so why are we so obsessed with this footage of the GE Walking Truck experiment from the 1960s. Developed over the span of five years at GE in what can only be described as skunkworks fashion, this thing was about as advanced a machine […]
The post Wild Mechanical History Video: The Best Footage We Have Ever Seen Of The 1960s GE Walking Truck – Neat! appeared first on BangShift.com.
Listen To A Hot Rodded 2.5L Mercury Marine V6 Scream To 10,500 RPM!
I don’t know lots about boat racing, but when there is a “Formula One” class, I’m going to assume it is pretty serious business. From what I can gather about the engine that serves as the centerpiece of this video, it is a highly modified 2.5L Mercury Marine V6 used in the Formula class to […]
The post Listen To A Hot Rodded 2.5L Mercury Marine V6 Scream To 10,500 RPM! appeared first on BangShift.com.