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  • Best of 2020: This Guy Built His Own Prosthetic Hand Setup With Aluminum!

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    Jan 01, 2021TECH, Videos

    Best of 2020: This Guy Built His Own Prosthetic Hand Setup With Aluminum!

    Call it a toll of war, call it experience by years, but it is just a true, frank statement: I know way too many people who are missing limbs. Many have lost hands, feet, legs, eyesight and in many cases their minds as well. And that’s before we get into other issues, such as disease, accidents and the C-word that I can say in public. When humans started out on this planet, missing limbs all but promised that you were not going to eat well, and that if a big cat suddenly decided you were dinner…well, so long. Then it became a matter of public hindrance, a disability. Peg-legged sailors, riflemen with the sleeve sewn shut where an arm should have been. Nowadays, prosthetics are borderline unreal. From a basic foot extension that assists with balance to the radical neuroprosthetic technologies that are being studied and tested, what you can get away with via prosthetic devices today is nothing short of amazing. Handicapped? Not as much as you might think.

    The amazing thing about this home-built aluminum hand…itself, a pretty loaded group of words…isn’t that it was built at home, or that it functions as well as it does. The fingers can splay, they can grip, they can form a fist, that’s pretty solid for a home-built unit. No, the impressive thing is that it was built at home by your narrator…you know, the man who actually needed the prosthetic because he is missing a good portion of his hand? As he shows off the latest generation of his device, you’ll pick up on the improvements he’s made along the way, such as the move away from 3D-printed fingers (too fragile).

    “I built my own artificial hand, and it works great.” How do you follow up a gem like that?

    Thanks to Kevin Brown for the tip!

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    This Old Ingersoll Rand Radial Engine Air Compressor Is One Of The Coolest Things We’ve Ever Run Across

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  • Stocking Stuffer: The Absolutely Epic Jason Plato/Matt Neal Interview Inside Of Renault Williams

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    Dec 27, 2020FUNNY STUFF, HISTORIC, Videos

    Stocking Stuffer: The Absolutely Epic Jason Plato/Matt Neal Interview Inside Of Renault Williams

    For a kid with a strong racing fascination in the mid-to-late 1990s, you essentially had two outlets if you wanted to see good action on television: TNN and Speedvision. (I’m sure ESPN showed something in between other sports, but I couldn’t be bothered.) TNN was where you went to see NASCAR highlights, swamp buggy racing, automotive shows at the time, and the occasional tough-truck competition. Speedvision, when it hit our cable provider in 1996, was where you went when you wanted a taste of the weird and the unknown. Much to the irritation of my parents at the time, I would be wide awake at three in the morning with the television on, the volume cranked just high enough that I could hear something, watching British Touring Car racing. I loved the stuff, because in my developing mind, it had three things NASCAR just didn’t have: real, identifiable cars; road courses instead of one sweeping oval; and drivers with personalities and tempers that didn’t hold back because it would look bad upon their sponsors. If anything, it seemed like the sponsors were gently pushing their wheelmen to be a bit more…how should I phrase this?…hands-on when it came time to solving disputes.

    Over the years we’ve shown you great action from the BTCC, including the absolutely infamous incident at Silverstone in 1992 that saw middle fingers flying on live television coverage and body panels getting smashed in like it was a banger race and not a touring car run. That was the early 1990s…by the late 1990s the two gentlemen that are being interviewed by Jonny Smith were point and center in what many saw as a bitter rivalry. Jason Plato and Matt Neal were names you heard regardless of when you tuned in for a race. Their personalities are so different, yet the same in many aspects. For years these two have battered and bashed their way around tracks, have found themselves in front of the officials and the cameras alike for their antics, and have somehow managed to be friends, even after threatening to kick the shit out of each other after big crashes.

    Merry Christmas, BangShifters. Once the wrapping paper gets cleaned up and the kids are off with their new goodies, sit down and watch these two. It’s worth it.

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  • Classic YouTube: Daigo Saito Earning His Legendary Drifter Reputation!

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    Oct 29, 2020RACING & ACTION, Videos

    Classic YouTube: Daigo Saito Earning His Legendary Drifter Reputation!

    By nature, racing and other automotive sports are all about showing off, and few disciplines are more associated with that kind of behavior than drifting. Unlike racing, which has performance and engineering benefits, drifting is more of an art form than anything else…style matters as much as, if not more, than how powerful the car is, or how perfect the slide angles are, or any of that. If you can make it look good, you are miles ahead of the competition. But how do you stand out when you are one of many in a field of showoffs, ready to blow their tires away for the approval of judges and a hungry crowd?

    You take a deep breath, throw the car hard into a corner and proceed to drift on air, with all four tires very clearly off of the ground. And that’s exactly what Daigo Saito did at the Ebisu Circuit. Driving a Toyota Mark II powered by a very pissed-off 2JZ, Saito’s known for a consistently solid driving style that can be as fluid as he feels the need to be. Apparently, on this lap, he felt the need to turn the knob to eleven and do whatever it took to shock any witness. Everything is spoken in Japanese, but there is no denying the body language and the excitement in the voices of the anchors when the Mark II takes flight!

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    GT40 Video: See How The Legendary Racer Stacked Up Next To Its Competition In 1966
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  • Morning Symphony: Lamborghini Diablo SV At Speed

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    Oct 16, 2020Videos

    Morning Symphony: Lamborghini Diablo SV At Speed

    The Countach was 1970s drug dealer chic. The Testarossa required you to dress in pastels and enjoy synthesizer music. The 959 required a distinct lack of humor, the F40 meant that you were the over-enthusiastic, forever reaching jock, and the EB110 meant that you were a freaking weirdo, the hipster before that word really entered the lexicon. So what was the Lamborghini Diablo? Well, it was Lamborghini courtesy of Chrysler. No, really…after Lamborghini nearly bought the farm in 1978, the Mimram brothers stepped in and had managed to start moving cars again. The Countach had been moving, the Jalpa reworked the failed Silhouette into something more palatable, and then there was the LM002, the Rambo Lambo that made good use of what had been the failed Cheetah project. Then, in 1987, Patrick Mimram sold Lamborghini to Chrysler for $25.2 million dollars. After re-working a Marcello Gandini design (much to Gandini’s irritation) the next upper-end Lambo, the Diablo, rolled out. Lasting until 2001, the Diablo had all the visual knockout the Countach had, and yet looked modern, looked sleek, looked promisingly vicious. It is a unapologetically brash V-12 Lamborghini, wearing the “SV” (Super Veloce) badge on the whole body as a callout to anybody who might’ve thought they could play the one-up game, be it the golf course or the race track. Posters, photos…none could properly translate the sound of that engine in action. Here you go.

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    Meziere Starter and Flexplate Packages Are The Perfect Answer For Your Tough Race Or Street Engine

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

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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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    This Detroit 6V72-Powered International Looks Ready To Rule The Strip In Puerto Rico!

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  • This Russian Dashcam Video Catches The Moment A Motorcyclist Beame An Unwilling But Successful Stuntman

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    Oct 06, 2020CRASH & BURN, Videos

    This Russian Dashcam Video Catches The Moment A Motorcyclist Beame An Unwilling But Successful Stuntman

    Pereslavl-Zalessky, in northwest Russia, seems to be a nice, quiet town. Judging from the dash cam of this car, things are going along at a nice, slow pace. Traffic doesn’t seem to be too wild, there aren’t sliding trucks or cars rolling over for whatever reason, like a lot of dash cam footage we’ve seen in the past. It’s just another day in a small town. Except for one motorcycle rider, who should be grateful that he is able to still breathe.

    We don’t know why the rider of this motorcycle didn’t see the Lada taxicab turning in front of him calmly. We don’t know why he didn’t slow down, or whether or not he missed a traffic signal. What we do know is that he hit the Lada hard enough to flip himself up and over and onto the roof of the car, where the next thing he knew, he was sitting, thinking about his carelessness. Luckily, the only damages were to the car and the motorcycle. And, quite possibly, the rider’s shorts.

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    Put Up Or Shut Up: Watch The Full Episode Featuring Top Fuel Dirt Motorcycle Racing!

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  • The Caddy Build Gets A ProCharger! Boosted Caddy Power For The Win!

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    Sep 20, 2020ENGINE, ENGINES, Tech Stories, Videos

    The Caddy Build Gets A ProCharger! Boosted Caddy Power For The Win!

    Man this thing is awesome! Remember how we said the 500 inch Caddy was going to get boost from a ProCharger? Yeah, well here it is and it rules and we love it and want it. If you missed the first part of this series, here’s the low down on what is going on. Watch the video and you’ll love what you see.

    Our friend Richard Holdener has been hanging out in New Mexico with Courtney and the guys at Cad Company, doing some killer dyno testing on a 500 cubic inch Cadillac recently. They put together a stock rebuild and then started putting more and more power parts on it to see just how much power it would make. At 500 cubic inches, these are not little engines, but they were made for cruising but not big horsepower. With that said, they  do make amazing torque and very respectable horsepower. But in the previous videos you saw that a camshaft, bolts ons, and testing proved there could be some real gains in power on this thing. Well what if we told you that there was more to be done?

    Did you know that there are big valve aluminum heads available for the 472 and 500 inch Caddy?  Well there are, and they can support a lot more power. The kind of power the ProCharger will be encouraging the Caddy to make.

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  • RM Sotheby’s Online Only Monterey Preview Compilation

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    Taking precautionary measures is paramount to staying healthy these days. That’s why this weekend will see fast-paced bidding on 100 of the world’s best cars. What normally would take place at the Portola Hotel is now being done online, thanks to RM Sotheby’s new & lightning fast servers. Bidding opened on Monday at 1 PM, and it will end sharply on Saturday at 2 PM (EDT). With that in mind, they grouped all the videos into the RM Sotheby’s Online Only Monterey Preview Compilation. Click the button below to view the lots and stay with us for all your RM Sotheby’s news.


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  • “You might want to get back in it!”: Check Out The Story Of The F-106 Delta Dart “Cornfield Bomber”!

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    The Convair F-106 Delta Dart was a hot rod of the highest order when it came to interceptor aircraft. Mach 2.0 was just starting to reach the upper limits of the airspeed indicator (Mach 2.3 was officially the fastest it’d go), it had the pure 1950s delta-wing design going on, and it had one major downside of a delta-winged supersonic jet: when induced into a flat spin (where the wings are horizontal), the chances of recovery are minimal and require major man-handling of the aircraft’s weight forward and down for a successful recovery. What does it look like when that doesn’t happen? You know that scene in Top Gun where Maverick and Goose fly through Iceman’s jet wash? That happens.

    For the then-Captain Gary Faust, a flat spin in a “Six” was the last possible place he ever wanted to be in. During aerial combat maneuver training over Montana on February 2, 1970, the F-106 went into a flat spin and at with 15,000 feet between the jet and the ground, Faust punched out and ejected. The force of the ejection, coupled with the weight shift of suddenly losing the weight of the pilot, pitched the Dart’s nose downward…and the aircraft recovered and flew off, pilotless, to the amazment of all of the pilots…and, most likely, the absolute annoyance of Captain Faust, who ended up landing near some mountains no worse for the wear. He was recovered by snowmobilers and brought to rescuers. The Delta Dart, on the other hand, was predicted to end up as a fireball, but instead glided into a snow-filled alfalfa field near Big Sandy, Montana, making a nearly-perfect belly landing, missing a stone wall by turning as if it had been piloted, and coming to rest in the snow, still running, the radar still sweeping.

    What happened next was almost comedy: first, the local sheriff got a call from the farmer that an Air Force jet had landed in his field, was unoccupied and running, and could they please advise what to do. The sheriff drove out, found that the farmer hadn’t been warming himself up with whiskey, and got in touch with Malmstrom Air Force Base for instructions on how to shut down an F-106. At one point, the sheriff even climbed up onto the wing and was checking out the cockpit when the jet lurched forward…the snow would melt enough to allow the Delta Dart to shift a couple feet forward, and that was enough for the officer to abandon the plan. Instead, the Convair was allowed to exhaust it’s fuel before it was disassembled on-site and shipped back to Malmstrom AFB for repairs. Other than some torn outer skin, the F-106 was in pretty decent condition and was returned to service, flying until retirement in 1986. The aircraft, 58-0787, is now at the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.

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  • Rack Repair: Fixing A Valiant Wagon’s Front Subframe Rail’s Damage

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    Jul 18, 2020TECH, Videos

    Rack Repair: Fixing A Valiant Wagon’s Front Subframe Rail’s Damage

    Happiness this year is found in the garage, ain’t it? Yeah…this is where you learn if you are a car builder or just would rather watch one on television. I’m finding that I’m enjoying building something, so long as it isn’t a sketchy piece of early 1980s radical overkill that’s fighting me on every possible turn. I’m also finding that thanks to the typical western Kentucky summertime heat indices, that I’ve got enough swamp ass to be a standing duplicate of the state of Louisiana. Yuck. Such is the way it goes though…either suffer for your craft or give up, get in the air conditioning and get back to your video subscription.

    Scotty’s certainly understanding that sentiment with the Valiant wagon that he’s dragging back from the dead. For all intents and purposes a Dodge Dart station wagon that we never got over in the States, it’s a cool ride that deserves to be saved, for sure. But like any neglected and abused A-body Mopar, there’s rot. And we aren’t talking about a little hole or two in the quarters. We’re talking subframe patches from where the RHD steering box was ripping itself out of the rail. Now, if you’re getting ready to line up a comment about how the steering box on a Dart is mounted to the K-frame and not the subframe rail, you’re right…but you are wrong. Aussie cars mounted the box to the subframe, and even though they did a little bit of work to strengthen the area, fifty years of flexing takes a toll eventually.

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    FOUND: The “Moonburst” AA Fuel Dragster Has Been Sitting In A Field In This Trailer For 43 Years!

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