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Horacio Pagani and his team of artists rarely deny a customer’s demands. As long as the finished product is in the best interests of art and performance, your wishes will become a reality. In order to offer a starting point for their latest hypercar, the Pagani Huayra Roadster BC configurator offers endless possibilities.

Jay Leno Drives Keith Urban’s Pagani Huayra

On Saturday we were honored to display the first Huayra Roadster at Cars & Coffee Tampa. All 100 examples sold out immediately, with the final cars being delivered a few weeks ago. As is normally the case, Mr. Pagani compiled a series of improvements that could make it better, but they would be best executed with a new foundation.

As a race-ready roadster, this new model starts with a stronger chassis. Instead of titanium infused carbon fiber, the entire car is carbon-triax. The patented material is 50% lighter and 20% stronger than its predecessor. Working with AMG, horsepower is up to 755 with 811 lb-ft of torque. Xtrac developed a new 7-speed sequential to handle the power.

No detail was overlooked, as exhaust flaps open to fill the aerodynamic voids ahead of the diffuser. All this was done to pay respect to Pagani’s first customer. Benny Caiola believed Horacio could conquer the world, so his full deposit was given in cash to help the artist build his first car. Only 40 examples of the Roadster BC will be offered, so strike while the iron is hot.

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Nov 18, 20201320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, Apex Video, BangShift 1320, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, ENGINE, ENGINES, MISC, Tech Stories, Videos

Not A Supercharger: This All-Billet Four Rotor Engine Build Is Awesome And Wild!

It was 1991 when Mazda won the 24 hours of Le Mans with their famed C787B race car which was powered by a four rotor version of the company’s rotary engine called the 13J (also built as the 26B). Instantly, rotary engine fans everywhere wanted a four rotor mill. It was never made as a production line engine but over the years people have gotten creative and stacked the rotors in about every form you can think of, building their own and even larger versions. This being said, using factory parts has it drawbacks and this video goes over those drawbacks and shows an-all billet version of the engine going together. Sure it looks like an overgrown blower, but this is actually a big horsepower maker.

Filmed in Australia where the rotary engine has a really strong following (chased only by the USA on this front) we are at the Promaz engine building shop to see how they assemble one of these and to learn some of the tricks of the trade as well as some of the inner workings of these amazing billet parts.

You are looking at probably $45,000 worth of engine before it has even been completed here. These things with boost can produce 1,500+ horsepower so it’s not like there isn’t payoff but it’s big money for a very specific way of making horsepower.

Watch the build and appreciate the engineering!

Press play below to see an all-billet four rotor engine get bolted together –

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The Desert Truck Of Your Mopar Dreams: This Dodge Bodied Class 8 Baja Truck Is Nearly Done - Unique And Awesome!

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Nov 07, 2020Apex Video, BangShift APEX, RACING & ACTION, Videos

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

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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Oct 10, 2020ENGINES, Videos

Lifter Ill Redux: A Demonstration Of The Gen 3 Hemi Camshaft And Lifter Issue

One of the most infamous videos Uncle Tony has ever released  was his call-out of the cam and lifter issue that third-gen Hemi engines have been known for. The answer is pretty much the same, especially on MDS (cylinder deactivation) equipped engines: a seized lifter roller bit into the camshaft. Jalopnik has discussed this in deep technical detail. Plenty of forum posts, NHTSA complaints, et cetera…it’s a known fact that there are certain issues with the Gen 3, and that’s not to call it out as a bad engine, just that it has an issue that you need to be aware of, like trying to get over 500 horsepower out of a Ford 302 without splitting the block in half. The short story is that the lifter roller’s needle bearings do not get the lubrication they need due to a lack of splashing oil from the crankshaft at low RPMs or idle and the shallow angle of the lifter is not conducive to get oil fed up at the top of the lifter down to the roller.

The controversy started the second the video went live. Many claimed that Tony had figured out the issue and were heaping their praises, many said that there was no way it was possible, many claimed that this was another case of “old man yells at cloud” and wrote him off as a kook, somebody who hated any engine that didn’t come with a carburetor straight from the factory. Well, this time around he’s going to show you…not just tell you, but show you…what is going on within the engine that is at least part of the problem, if not the entire problem.

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Sep 30, 2020RACING & ACTION, Videos

Morning Symphony: All Manner Of Manic Rally Machines At Rallylegend 2019

“Manic”…there was never a more proper word for what a rally car driven in pure anger is. With revs high, the turbo spooled to the moon and the tires scratching in like a housecat the moment Dad lets one of his “nuclear blast” sneezes go, the tiny little power-sliding, nimble and radical little rally cars of both present and past put on a show. At the hands of a skilled driver, it’s the closest thing I believe you can get to a motorsports equivalent of a Cirque du Soleil show, more theatrics, gymnastics and acoustics than anything else remotely close to automotive competition. What’s your poison? A tricked-out Lada giving those with Commie Cars jokes something to think about for a moment? A classic Ford Escort hanging the tail as wide as possible while a Cosworth screams? The undeniable anger of a Group B legend as it spits flame out the pipe?

Rally is an all-inclusive show: the acceleration of a drag car, the showmanship of a drift show, enough tire-frying action to keep an Aussie engaged, off-road sections for those who prefer that kind of thing, and when somebody slips? Well, at least the demo-derby fans will have something to study. You have to love it…

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Scary Machine: Old Video of International Harvester's Automatic Mine Layer

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Hethel is home to Lotus headquarters and their test track. Before a new model is approved for production, it endures endless laps at this closed course. No simulator can predict how a hypercar will react to off-camber corners and a slalom designed to max-out the sway bars. Therefore Gavan Kershaw got behind the wheel.

As the Director of Vehicle Attributes, he mounted a few cameras to allow us to ride along. His goal was to make a film for the Salon Prive Concours d’Elegance as Lotus will be flying the Union Jack in the face of foreign competitors. As for the Evija itself, these test laps have helped to finalize the driving modes. What sets it apart from any other is a unique “Range” mode. This limits the car to only 1,000 horsepower and 590 lb-ft of torque. Using the front motors for brake regeneration only, acceleration is purely rear-wheel drive. Track mode offers 2,000 horsepower and 1,254 lb-ft of torque, so we can barely wait to get behind the wheel.

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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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Aug 25, 2020CHEVY, HISTORIC, Videos

Get That Lean Going: The Brutal Test Of The 1969 Chevrolet Impala 396!

Seeing how Car and Track skewered the 1974 Chevrolet Camaro Type LT during testing is one thing. The Camaro was at the end of any acceptable form of the Musclecar era, and had cowed into a soft, slow form of it’s former self, complete with railroad bars front and rear. Compared to what was on the street just four years prior, anyone who has even the slightest inkling for cars would’ve been disgusted…and that’s coming from someone who actually likes the 1974-77 Camaro’s looks. Honesty, especially in blunt form, was that man’s point of pride.

But in 1969, things were still good: big blocks were all the rage, horsepower numbers were just about to crest, and opera windows weren’t an issue whatsoever. Yet, when the testers at Car and Track got their hands on a 396 2bbl/Powerglide-equipped 1969 Impala coupe, well…it sucked. Loudly. Bud Lindemann had plenty of praises for what was good, but when he started off a feature by saying that Ford and Chrysler might be getting new buyers into their showrooms…well, that’s pretty damning. It rolls, it pitches, and it absolutely torments that front-left tire…if you squint, you might even see a spark or two off of the wheel! Nobody was ever going to look at a 1969 Impala and picture it as the pinnacle of handling and sporty driving, but seriously, when you’re about to scrape the rear-view mirror off of the door, there has to be a point where you call a spade a spade. What do you think…accurate or a bit over the top?

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Aug 17, 2020HISTORIC, Videos

Historical Footage: Throwing The 1974 AMC Matador X Around The Track!

The 1974-78 American Motors Matador coupe is a strange thing to us. It’s styling is polarizing, to put it mildly, but only at the nose and tail. In between those two points is a fairly handsome and restrained two-door coupe that cash-strapped AMC came up with to replace the massive brick that the two-door Matador sedan had been previously. It also, by default, filled the niche that would form when the Javelin disappeared at the end of 1974 as well. The Matador coupe managed to be a surprise hit for AMC, as it moved almost 63,000 of them in it’s first year of production. Some of the inputs that Mark Donohue gave Richard Teague must’ve worked, though we’d like to think that one of those hints involved keeping the 401ci V8 in the top-of-the-line Matador X model. It didn’t have the big, bad musclecar persona of the Javelin, but it by no means was a shrinking violet. It certainly didn’t rock nearly as much fluff as the other “personal luxury” coupes of the day did. Oh, you could order it up if you wanted to. A Matador Barcelona had it all. But the Matador X was still clinging to performance dreams.

AMC always tried to fight the Big Three the best it could up until the end, and the Matador coupe was a solid move overall. The machine that Car and Track got their hands on is exactly how we would spec one out: 401, X package, and no extra fluff. How did they do brand new? Well…it’s not like the test crew that ran operations for this show understood what the word “gentle” meant. Click play below to see…

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Incredible In-Car Video Of A Nitro Funny Car Explosion - Fire and Violence!

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As one of their best Formula E drivers, Nyck de Vries knows how to push an electric car to its limits. That is why Mercedes-Benz allowed him to put in a few laps at the Autodromo Riccardo Paletti. Their first electric SUV, it offers 402 horsepower and 561 lb-ft of torque at all wheels. Top speed is limited to 112 mph to prolong the life of the 80 kWh battery. She is a little heavy at 5,346 lbs, but that weight is very low, allowing for fun in the corners.

BRABUS Concept for the Mercedes-Benz EQC Unveiled

If you like the lines but you aren’t ready for electric, the Mercedes-AMG GLC 63 offers 469 horsepower and 479 lb-ft of torque from its twin turbo V8. At $73,750 it is $5,850 more expensive than the electric model and is only capable of 16 mpg in the city. The EQC has an EPA-certified range of 220 miles, so its a tough decision. Click the button below to find our dealer near you and they will reserve your EQC.

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