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The American Station Wagon Is Coming Back…From Korea – The Genesis G70 Wagon Looks Like It Might Be Awesome

May 05, 2021Brian LohnesBangShift APEX, BangShift News, BangShift Road Test

(By Tom Lohnes) – Genesis, the modern-day 2000’s BMW, is really killing it right now, with the sporty G70, the Luxurious G90, the G80 that mixes the 70 and the 90, as well as 2 SUVs that are eating up sales. Well, what if I told you that there will be a more practical version of the G70 that isn’t the GV70 crossover? That’s right, It’s a wagon!

Why exactly Genesis is doing this I have no idea, but I have to thank them because wagons, especially sportier ones like the G70 3.3T are very hard to come by in the US. This isn’t some lifted wagon that poses as a crossover either, this is an honest-to-God family hauler, and I love that. Spyshots by Motor1.com suggest the G70 wagon will take the handsome styling of the sedan version and translate it nicely into the long-roof version. The interior should also be the same, just a bit more spacious, because this is a wagon after all. Under the hood will lie a choice of a 2.0-liter turbocharged 4-cylinder, which makes 300 horses and gets the job done, but upgrade to the optional 3.3-liter twin-turbo V6, and you get 368 horses, as well as 360 lb-ft of torque to get your wagon to 60 in the high 4-second range.

German brands, take notice. If Genesis sells enough of these things, we may see limited quantities of the BMW 3-series touring and Audi A4 Avant start to pop up here, and maybe even some M340iTs and S4 Avants. We can only hope.

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20 Year Time Traveler: This 2001 Neon Has 68 Miles On It, Leather, A Stick, and a Sky-Rocketing Price Tag

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Boost Makes Better: This Build and Dyno Test Of An 8-71 Blown 427ci LS3 Is Awesome – Airboat Engine!

Apr 27, 2021Brian Lohnes1320 Engine Tech, 1320 Tech Story, 1320 Videos, Apex Engine Tech, Apex Tech Stories, Apex Video, BangShift 1320, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, BangShift XL, ENGINES, MISC, Videos, XL Engine Tech, XL Tech Stories, XL Videos

If you are going to build a kick ass airboat engine, you need a few things. The first is obviously some horsepower, the second is a deep reservoir of torque, and the third is reliability so you are not gator food out there somewhere in the wilderness. This video is a comprehensive and awesome look at the build of just such an engine. In the typical fashion of the channel, Jeff at Horsepower Monster takes us through the build from the block on up to the end results of dyno testing. Starting with a Dart LS-Next block and stuffing the whole thing full of the best parts in the aftermarket, the engine is a 427ci power maker topped with Prestige Motorsports (the engine builder here) own design LS3 11-degree cylinder heads. Breaking news: they work.

After all is said and done, the engine sits more than 6ft tall on the dyno cart all hooked up. The height will not be a problem in an airboat where literally the sky is the limit. There are two sets of dyno pulls made, one with the supercharger basically at 1:1 with the engine and the second with a little bit of overdrive. Both pulls are made on 93-octane gas and the engine is only pulled to 6,000 RPM which is the max it will see in an airboat.

The power is impressive for both pulls and we agree with Jeff that with some higher octane gas, a little more OD, and some more RPM, they could be way bigger! This is a great video and an awesome engine.

Press play below to see this big-inch LS3 get an 8-71 huffer and make awesome power –

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Goodwood Fun: Here’s 10 Wild, Weird, and Bodacious Touring Cars From Goodwood Over The Years That You Forgot About
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Awesomely Weird: This 1970s Chevrolet Parts Film Stars Evel Knievel And Literally Makes No Sense

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

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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A Dakota By Any Other Name: The 1998 Dodge Durango Got Chrysler Into The SUV Game On Solid Footing

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Holley Is Offering Free Shipping On Orders Over $100 For The Next MONTH – Take Advantage And Save!

No one needs an excuse to buy great parts for your hot rod, your race car, your daily driver, or your street/strip machine, right? Right. But sometimes a deal comes along that you just HAVE to take advantage of and the deal that Holley is offering right now is certainly part of that program. Yes, from now until 4/30 Holley is offering free shipping on orders over $100. This is a great way to get the parts you want and save on those pesky shipping fees that you do not want to pay! Whether it’s that new carb, maybe a Sniper EFI system, or one of the thousands of parts the company offered under its umbrella of brands, you cannot go wrong by getting it sent to you for free.

There are a couple conditions that need to be followed and they are explained below but they’re super easy and 99.99% of all the stuff you want and need to have for your car are going to hit your doorstep free of charge when it comes to the shipping companies.

Don’t delay, don’t wait around. Order your parts and get them loaded, boxed, and to your shop for free!

Hit the image below to see the details surrounding Holley’s free shipping program!

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2021 February Southern California Quarantine Cruise: The Last Blast Of Images From The Sun Drenched Event

Feb 27, 2021Brian Lohnes1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Gallery, Apex Event Coverage, Apex Gallery, BangShift 1320, BangShift APEX, BangShift Galleries, BangShift News, CAR SHOWS, Car Shows, Event Coverage, Gallery

We’re back with our last installment of killer photos from the 2021 February SoCal Quarantine Cruise. As we have been saying, this event brought out some of the coolest cars in the southern California area to enjoy a day out cruising and just being around fellow hot rodders and gearheads. We’ll keep checking out these events as long as they go on, but like all of you, we hope that their days are numbered and more traditional events can start to make a comeback in the coming months.

Enjoy this last look at the SoCal Quarantine Cruise!

Hit the images below to expand them and then scroll on to check them all out –

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Lights Out 12 Drag Racing Photo Coverage: Pit Photos Of People, Cars, Engines, and Thrashing!

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Horsepower On The Waves: This Film Showing The 1956 Gold Cup Hydroplane Race Is Awesome – Aircraft Engines Galore

Feb 03, 2021Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, HISTORIC, MISC, RACING & ACTION, Videos

Boat racing has always been the realm of big money and when we say “always” we mean ALWAYS. Think about the days of Gar Wood hammering international competition in the 1920s and then the evolution from there to where we are even today. Off-shore and hydroplane racing are huge money endeavors which are a fantastic spectacle. Hell, even drag boat racing will sink a decent wallet in no time flat but the allure of competition on the water has drawn and continues to draw the passion, the money, and the horsepower, to liquid race tracks all over the world.

So the Gold Cup was THE race to win in hydroplane racing during the era when this video was made. The boats themselves are amazing hot rods. Made of wood and powered by huge aircraft engines, they are violent and blazingly fast. You’ll see a Rolls-Royce mill, Allisons for days, and they all have this just killer look that make them some of the most visually stunning racing machines of their era.

While we have seen some of these old hydros sitting in museums and stuff, maybe occasionally idled around in the water, we had never seen them actually racing hull to hull before this video. How these drivers saw anything or didn’t have their guts shaken out of their throats over the course of the race is stunning. Watch the boats bounce, heave, and generally pulverize themselves on the water. This is wild!

Great horsepower, great history, and some of the coolest boats ever built.

Press play below to see this amazing account of the 1956 Gold Cup race in Seattle –

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Wheelstand And Deliver: Watch Craig Sullivan and Jerico Balduf Go Wheels Up While Hammer Down In Bradenton
Big Boy: Watch The Build Of A Massive 460ci Small Block Ford – All The Cubes, None Of The Girth

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Classic YouTube: Watch As This VW Golf Monsters Hillclimbs At Full Chat!

Nov 07, 2020Bryan McTaggartApex Video, BangShift APEX, RACING & ACTION, Videos

If there is one truth to racing, it’s that you never half-ass anything you do. If you can’t be bothered to give it your all, don’t bother showing up. That goes for any form of racing out there. But what does 100% look like? Full-on maximum attack, where you wonder if insanity has overridden the survival instinct, that’s what. It’s the difference between pedaling out of a bad situation on the strip versus hanging the hell on and crossing the stripe a tenth faster. It’s moderating a trail versus flying over every fourth little incline to keep up momentum in a rally. And in a hillclimb…well, here’s your lesson’s subject of the day. The driver is Daniel Wittwer, and his early VW Golf is the car. The Golf is only pushing out about 25o horsepower from a 16V 2.0L four, but you’d swear that there’s more the way that Wittwer is pushing this little VW. We are pretty sure that he used the Armco barrier as a ricochet device, bouncing the car back onto the asphalt. We’re almost proof-positive that at one point he was two tires off on the shoulder besides one glaringly obvious moment. We are pretty sure that the rear tires are worn a quarter less than the fronts, given how much hang time they got in corners. And the cover photo speaks for itself, doesn’t it? Maybe not as much as Wittwer’s celebration after the run…we’d be happy to be alive, too, after a hell ride like that!

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Holley Intergalactic Ford Fest 2020: Welcome To The Blue Oval’s Burndown!

Oct 04, 2020Bryan McTaggart1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Gallery, Apex Event Coverage, Apex Gallery, Autocross / Pro Touring, BangShift 1320, BangShift APEX, BangShift Galleries, CAR SHOWS, Car Shows, DRAG RACES, Drag Races, Event Coverage, FORD, Gallery

LS Fest came and went. MoParty had it’s first showing. That means that it’s time for Mustangs, for Cobras, for Broncos, and every other thing that wears the legacy of Henry Ford on it’s sleeve. Holley’s Ford Fest is on and going strong in Kentucky, and we’re on hand to take care of things. Chad is doing what Chad does best, which is to entertain crowds in the circle pit with his infectious delivery, and I’m running around shooting photos in-between trips to the swap meet to look for parts for two Mustangs that keep pestering me for attention. And it’s a good thing that the swap meet was there, because parts are comin’ home with me! But enough about that, you’re probably just here to see what was going on at the show. Well, I don’t blame you one bit. Only in it’s second year, the Intergalactic Ford Fest is proving once again to be wildly popular. You don’t suppose that it’s because Bigfoot V, the behemoth with the 10-foot-tall tires on it, was around and about, do you?

We’ve got plenty of photos coming, so just stay tuned…there’s lots of good stuff to come!

Be sure to click on a photo below to check out the first gallery from the 2020 Ford Fest!

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How It’s Made Video: Follow A Cam From Core Selection To Finish Product At The COMP Cams Factory!

This is an awesome video that shows us some amazing stuff about one of the aftermarket industry’s truly important names. Yes, we are going inside the COMP Cams factory in Tennessee to see how a camshaft is made from the selection of the core to the machining and even to the micro finishing processes that COMP offers on their products as well. Things have come a long way since guys like Ed Iskendarian started grinding their own camshafts far more than a half century ago.

From the materials to the processes, accuracy, and quality, this is as good as it gets in the industry. COMP has been making camshafts for street guys, NASCAR teams, NHRA drag racing teams, sports car teams, open wheel racing competitors, monster truck racers, and anything else you can think of for longer than many of you reading this have been alive. Along the way they have taken every piece of acquired knowledge and plowed it back into their company to make products better. They continue to do that today.

The fascinating thing about this process to us is that it’s still very human. It is not just some massive automative factory with no people in it. There’s human talent at every step of this trip and we think you’ll appreciate that as well. The mix of cutting edge equipment and practices with the skilled hands of true machinists is a really fun intersection to watch.

Enjoy this amazing look behind the scenes at COMP Cams and the truly cool birth of a camshaft!

Press play to see this awesome video that shows the process of making a cam at COMP –

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Old Man Cruiser: This 1972 Impala Is The Perfect Example Of What Old People Bought When Nixon Was President

May 19, 2020Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, eBay Find

Old people in massive, slow cars. That was a trope used in all forms and facets of advertising and comedy from the 1950s right up until not that long ago. As the size of cars continues to shrink, this once common sight is less and less or a normal thing to see. That being said, it WAS a thing and this car is proof. This 1972 Impala is the perfect example of what old people bought when Richard Nixon was the president. The car is incredibly well preserved and as the leasing says, it was operated by elderly people.

This 1972 Impala is pretty light on options but it does have AC and a six-way power bench seat. The car is powered by a 2bbl topped 350 engine and backed by a Powerglide. This is the lowest horsepower and lowest performing mechanical setup that you could get in this car circa 1972. It reeks of an old guy haggling on price and options. You can almost hear him saying, “Nahh, nahhh, I don’t need all that…” when it comes to stuff like, ohhh, A THREE SPEED TRANSMISSION.

The car is astonishingly persevered. It has 69,000 original miles on it, little if no rust, the interior looks like no one has ever sat in it before, and we just cannot believe how clean it is. The green paint with the green roof and the green interior is awful but it’s awfully cool because of the 1970s flavor of the whole program.

We’d not have the hear to jack with this car if we bought it. We’d be the people doing 10-under the speed limit with a line of traffic a mile behind us and loving every mile we traveled.