Frankton Tyre & Alignment breaks down wheel alignment setups for street and track use, covering camber, tyre choice, and performance tuning from Rhys’ street-driven Toyota Levin race car.
Take a look at the featured highlights from Issue 321!
Discover UltraTube RS, a New Zealand-made high-strength dual-phase steel tube designed for motorsport fabrication. Learn how it compares to chromoly, its Motorsport NZ recognition, and why fabricators are adopting it for roll cages, chassis builds, and race car construction.
Thirteen years, countless setbacks, and endless late nights later, Shalvin Sharma’s Evo VIII MR is now a perfectly balanced time-attack Evo, built to handle anything the street or track can throw at it!
Turbo engines run hotter, harder and demand more from your oil. Find out what viscosity to run, when to change it, and what’s actually happening inside your engine with Oil Hub.
Once the king of the show scene, this harlequin-coated icon returns to remind us why it raised the bar!
Harrys Euro close the chapter on their wildest Golf project yet — saving the most ambitious build for last, with an RS3 five-cylinder swap that cements their place at the top of New Zealand’s Euro scene.
After nearly a decade away from the tools and out of the scene, Van Nguyen scratched the itch the only way he knew how, with a garage-built, boosted K-swapped CRX that marks the ultimate comeback!
In a performance car world so wrapped up in prodigious power, gargantuan grip, and tremendous technology, sometimes it’s nice to take a breath and step back to the basics. Agile, frothy, engaging performance on a budget — sorta the full-sized car equivalent of plonking your butt among a bunch of tubes and a two-stroke, then heading to the kart track
We caught up with Drew Blewett, owner of Custom Wiring Solutions, to talk shop about his specialised wiring services and the high-spec work he put into Rhys Knauf’s street-legal track car AE101 Levin
Another creation to roll out of the Madlab doors, but this one hits differently. It smells like 2004 Manukau Velodrome smoke, has probably been plastered on your wall, and carries a legacy forged through decades of tyre smoke, scars, and madness. This is the story of FURSTY — the OG wagon that turned a young, broke, rotary-addicted Mike Whiddett into the ‘Mad Mike’ that the world knows today
Right oil, right quantity, right to your door — we talk to the man behind OilHub
25 years later, Honda’s most beloved coupe is back on NZ roads. But is a hybrid Prelude really a Prelude at all? We drove it to find out.
Take a look at the featured highlights from Issue 320!
The Golf R project returns! This time, the engine’s coming out — but don’t worry, it’s not blown. We’ve got something special lined up: a build we’ve been itching to do for ages, and it’s nothing like your average street Golf.
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