Features
Gorgeous, glossing spreads on the most beautiful and hardcore modified cars that Australia’s custom scene has to offer.
Reader’s Rocket: Blown VK Calais Blue Meanie tribute
Jason Kouzoukas's 540rwhp VK SS Group A Brock tribute is a comfortable, retro tech cruiser
Blown Holden six-powered EK sedan
After more than a decade dismembered, this cool EK was brought back, body and soul
Cheap thrills – Blowin’ Gaskets
Simo ponders whether a street machiner’s natural desire to constantly evolve their rides can kill some of the fun along the way
Damien ‘Chubby’ Lowe’s VB Commodore
Just like Ian Hazel’s HG Premier in the 80s and Ron Barclay’s HQ ute in the early 90s, Damien Lowe’s VB Commodore set the standard for his own generation of street machiners to follow
Tech: understanding how camshafts work and the terminology
We unravel some of the complexities of the common camshaft and its terminologies
Readers’ rockets: Family heirloom VC Valiant and more!
LS1-swapped Suzuki Mighty Boy burnout ute, family-heirloom VC Valiant, survivor graphic ’Cuda, supercharged V8 TC Cortina plus more
Wheels of Terror (1990) – ripper car movies
Evil waits. With the motor running
Dean Gianginis’s 850hp aspirated LS-powered VK Calais
Dean Gianginis’s VK Calais harbours a screaming, 9000rpm, 850hp aspirated LS that we could listen to all day long
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
2000hp 2JZ-powered Toyota Supra streeter
Paul Mouhayet sets his sights on mid-sixes at 225mph in his 2000hp Toyota Supra
Andrew Baumgartner’s turbo L76-powered HB Torana
Andrew Baumgartner’s HB Torana combines big tyres and budget grunt to make one nasty Drag Challenge machine
Turbo LS2-powered street-and-strip Volvo 242 GT
This weapons-grade Volvo is a far cry from your geography teacher’s beige wagon
Expression Session: NASCAR-inspired Aussie muscle
Giving Aussie muscle a tough-as-guts NASCAR makeover
Tech: How to delete badges and external trim
How to delete badges and decorative trim for a clean, smooth look
Richard Kimber’s Top 60 EH Premier
A ‘resto-tech’ EH that’s equally at home in the Summernats Elite Hall as she is on the open highway
Tony Di Biagio’s 905hp Clevor-powered XY Fairmont
Tony Di Biagio’s naturally aspirated, 451-cube Drag Challenge XY is all kinds of cool
Tech: making your own 200-series braided lines and fittings
Carnage chieftain Scotty Taylor gives us the lowdown on using 200-series Proflow lines and fittings
1968 Toyota Stout ute with Holden 202 power!
Dallas Craig resurrects a rare Toyota ute with Aussie power
1000hp Sonny’s big-block-powered LX hatch
Rob took one of Australia’s most iconic muscle cars and stuffed it with 1050hp of all-motor thump
Mark Else’s blown 1999 VT HSV GTS
The Gen III made Holden's iron V8 obsolete. Except this one