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Bring your ride to the Optima Ultimate Street Car Challenge at Calder Park this Saturday
We’re bringing the shine to Optima’s Ultimate Street Car Challenge, with a chance to win a spot at MotorEx!
4 hours ago - Carnage
Video: The MotorEx thrash begins!
In this episode of Carnage, Scotty cracks onto our VS ute to get it ready for debut at MotorEx
4 hours ago - News
Vale Sports Sedan legend Bob Gill
Bob Gill was a competitor, advocate and mentor in Aussie circuit racing over six decades
19 hours ago - News
Auction watch: HDT VL, EB GT, HT GTS, VC Commodore and more!
There’s some epic metal up for grabs with Grays this week, so let’s take a look!
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Auction watch: Blown big-block 1965 Chev Impala SS
2 days ago -
Cam Waters XB hardtop confirmed for MotorEX and more!
3 days ago -
Pro Touring 1967 Mustang wins Grand Champion at Rockynats 04
7 days ago -
Video: Upgrading the brakes on our Lexcen!
1 week ago
- Features
Brodie Ward’s blown 403-cube VL Commodore
After sending countless Nissan six-pots to the scrap heap, Brodie Ward wised up and built his dream blown and injected VL Commodore
1 day ago - Features
Readers’ rockets: LX SS Torana hatch, ratty Galant, 800hp XY ute plus more
We check out some of our readers’ rides from the March issue of Street Machine
1 day ago - Features
Reader’s Rocket: Daniel’s ZC Fairlane
Daniel Irwin shows us his tough ZC Fairlane
2 days ago - Features
Blown 1959 Morris Minor custom
It doesn’t take a lot of car to stand out, just a lot of work, as Rhonda and Al Magritzer discovered with their blown and continental-kitted Morris Minor custom
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Where are they now? Green Hulk HG Holden
3 days ago -
Flashback: Paul Mullins’s HR Holden Special
3 days ago -
John Szwede’s Pro Touring LX Torana SS
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Peter Flint’s big-block XW Ford Fairmont GS
4 days ago
Events
- Events
Bring your ride to the Optima Ultimate Street Car Challenge at Calder Park this Saturday
We’re bringing the shine to Optima’s Ultimate Street Car Challenge, with a chance to win a spot at MotorEx!
4 hours ago - Events
Harrop-blown HQ at the Optima Ultimate Street Car Challenge
This blown HQ will be one to watch this Saturday at the Optima Ultimate Street Car Challenge
21 hours ago - Drag Racing
Drag Nation: The inaugural National Drag Racing Championship hots up
The inaugural NDRC season is steamrolling towards a nitro-fuelled conclusion
1 day ago - News
Cam Waters XB hardtop confirmed for MotorEX and more!
With some of Australia’s most esteemed car builders set to debut cars, this year’s Meguiar’s MotorEx is set to be a cracker
3 days ago -
Pro Touring 1967 Mustang wins Grand Champion at Rockynats 04
7 days ago -
Supercar Superstars heading to Optima Ultimate Street Car Challenge
1 week ago -
Top Fuel records reset at the Riverbend Nationals
2 weeks ago -
Josh Leahy to make his Nitro Funny Car debut at the Nitro Champs
2 weeks ago
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Car Auctions
- News
Auction watch: Blown big-block 1965 Chev Impala SS
A ballsy, blown Chevelle SS is up for auction, with the proceeds going to a great cause
2 days ago - News
Auction watch: Tough VN SS, XW GT tribute, Integra Type R and more!
We check out what’s on offer at this week’s Grays classic car auction
2 weeks ago - News
Auction watch: LX Torana, Nissan 180SX, manual HSV wagon and more!
We take a look at some of the fine metal crossing the block with Grays this week
1 month ago - News
Auction: Premcar Holy Grail FG-X Falcon
Prodrive’s vision of a modern-day GTHO was the Holy Grail – this one could be yours
2 months ago -
Rebodied Ford Falcon XY GTHO Phase III sold at auction
3 months ago -
HSV GTSR W1 with 32km reaches $350K at auction
3 months ago -
Auction watch: Ratty HG Monaro, XY 4×4 ute, R32 GT-R and more!
4 months ago -
Sold: The GT that time forgot commands big bucks
5 months ago
More Car Auctions >>
Technical
- DIY
Wheel alignment basics: what toe, camber and caster mean
We explain the three common terms used in a wheel alignment and how they affect your car
1 week ago - DIY
The benefits of stripping paint by soda blasting
Take several kilos of baking soda and throw it at your car. Really hard. It’ll take the paint clean off. You think we’re kidding?
2 weeks ago - DIY
Fitting airbag suspension to your street machine
Modern, computer-controlled airbags aren’t just for the low ‘n’ slow crew. Here’s what’s involved in fitting airbag suspension to your car
3 weeks ago - DIY
Tech: ceramic coating for car components
Ceramic coating can brighten up your ride as well as provide protection and added performance
1 month ago -
Tech: How a limited slip differential works
2 months ago -
Tech: understanding how camshafts work and the terminology
3 months ago -
Tech: How to delete badges and external trim
3 months ago -
Tech: making your own 200-series braided lines and fittings
3 months ago
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Custom Engines
- Features
ProFlo Performance-built Nissan CA18 mill
Overshadowed by the Nissan SR20 turbo, the CA18 is a turbocharged gem more resembling the straight-six RB25. ProFlo Performance built this ripper little combo for a customer’s Datsun 1200 with the goal of reaching 500rwhp
2 weeks ago - Features
Grooty’s Race & Resto-built BMW M20B25 six combo
Danno ‘Grooty’ Groot built this BMW hot six combo for his partner’s ’85 E30 race car
4 weeks ago - Features
Cam Waters’s XB Falcon coupe is powered by screaming, Supercars-bred 369ci Windsor
Here’s what happens when a professional Supercars racer commissions an ex-Supercars and Nascar engineer to build a ball-tearing mill for his street machine
2 months ago - Features
ProFlo Performance-built 403-cube blown LS combo
This combo out of ProFlo Performance uses a cast-iron LQ9 block plus as-cast LS3 heads with stock valves and is destined for staffer Brodie Ward’s VL Commodore
3 months ago -
BG Engines blown 355ci Holden V8 combo
3 months ago -
Turbo Toyota 1UZ-FE V8 mill in the build
3 months ago -
ProFlo Performance-built twin-turbo 403-cube LQ9 combo
5 months ago -
404-cube nitrous small-block Chev combo
5 months ago