How-to guides

Correcting a badly installed twin-turbo LS1 fit-up to a Holden VX Commodore

There’s no point fitting turbos if you don’t do it right. This VX needed corrective surgery

By Paul Tuzson - Story & Photos

Correcting a badly installed twin-turbo LS1 fit-up to a Holden VX Commodore

How to fabricate a pair of inner fenders for your smoothed engine bay

Why your project car needs a well-engineered chassis

What you need to know about torsion and beam testing for modified vehicles

How to build a custom firewall

How to fix a blown head gasket at home

How to choose the correct sparkplug leads for your car

1969 Rambler engine bay overhaul in four days

By Chad Atkinson - Story & Photos01 Feb 2020

They say many hands make light work. Our resident tinkerer, Chad Atkinson, puts the theory to the test with a four-day engine day overhaul

Chassis and subframe construction basics

By Tim Bartrop - Words & Photos19 Jan 2020

Dr Tim outlines best-practice methods for chassis and subframe construction

How to optimise your car's cooling system

By Tim Bartrop - Story & Photos12 Jan 2020

Dr Tim explains how to optimise your car's cooling system so you don't get hot under the collar

Fuel filler transformation

By Chad Atkinson - Story & Photos23 Dec 2019

How to transform a fuel filler from eyesore to eye-catching

How 3D printing is revolutionising car-building

By Iain Kelly | Photos: Ben Hosking08 Dec 2019

3D printing is bringing street machining into the future. We sit down with some of the leading authorities in Oz to see how these plastic pieces are revolutionising car-building

How to roll front guards for tyre clearance

By Chad Atkinson - Story & Photos30 Nov 2019

Chad Atkinson schools us on creating tyre clearance for your front fenders

Quick tech tips - why you need good quality masking tape

By Paul Tuzson - Story & Photos17 Nov 2019

Do it right, do it once - and that starts with good quality masking tape

How to strip paint by media blasting

By Craig Parker | Photos: Mark Bean04 Nov 2019

If you want to know whether your body is killer or filler, you need to strip it back

How to heat-shrink steel with an Oxy torch

By Chad Atkinson - Story & Photos02 Nov 2019

Chad Atkinson shows us the basics of straightening a sheet-metal panel via heat-shrinking

How to set up your workshop – Dirty Stuff

By William Porker31 Oct 2019

Set your workshop up the right way with Street Machine's resident spanner man, William Porker

Depth of section explained

By Tim Bartrop | Photos: SM Archives27 Oct 2019

When engineers talk about depth of section, we are referring to the ‘cut-through’ view or section view of a particular shape or style of material being used in a construction; the depth of the section is the longest axis or side of that shape.

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