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NAC Off Season: new chassis for Drew Donovan
View fullsize NAC team driver, Drew Donovan, will step away from his long-time S15 chassis this coming season, and into a Toyota
Weekly Motor Fix: throwback Evo II
When we spotted this old battler at Chrome, we were taken straight back to 2003 with Aaron Mckay’s ‘TNTEVO’ Evo II. It rocked a perfectly suited
Weekend Warrior: Engineered To Feel K24-powered EK9
1997 Honda Civic Type R (EK9) View fullsize NZ Performance Car: Hi, Peach. Tell us how you got into cars and racing.Peach: I
Mr Reliable: no-holds-barred S15
Sick of breaking parts with unreliable builds, Arthur Lee embarked on one hell of an S15 build in which not a single corner
Daily Driven: bagged and tagged Mustang EcoBoost
2016 Ford Mustang EcoBoost View fullsize NZ Performance Car: Hi, Varun. How did you get into modifying cars?Varun: Hey, team. I wanted to
Cruise Mode: low-slung turbo beams Altezza
2003 Toyota Altezza (SXE10) View fullsize NZ Performance Car: Hi, Caleb. How did you get into the car scene, and what was the
Sonic Seven: Arnie Nguyen’s record-breaking RX-7
This is no ordinary RX-7, and with lineage back to the street-legal, strip-chomping peach-coloured Series 1 that clocked up flat 12s Words: Rotor
Strip Search: IHRA Tech Inspection
We follow the process involved in getting a dedicated drag car legal to race. It’s a lot more interesting than your daily-driver’s WOF
Weekly Motor Fix: ST-Hitec record-attempt R35
ST Hi-tec has never done things by halves, but when we caught wind of what a collaboration between them and Dodson Motorsport was looking to
Misconceptions of suspension
The world is riddled with false expertise surrounding suspension setups, so we turned to the masters at MCA Suspension in order to bust
Weekly Motor Fix: 2JZ-powered VZ Commodore wagon
It’s not every day that you catch something with a lion badge adorning the pages of NZ Performance Car, but when you spot a Holden
Flying V: Omori Factory-built R34 GT-R M-Spec Nür
V-Spec Performance’s M-Spec NÜr R34 delivers the perfect contradiction: road-going luxury and race-bred mechanicals sprinkled with a hearty serving from the Nismo catalogue
21 Midnights: 12a rotary crammed into a VW Beetle
A slammed, two-tone bug with a screaming rotary crammed into the back is the automotive embodiment of a complete scumbag who only
Tuning guide: how to modify your 1UZ-FE
Modifying your car can be a daunting task, what with so many products available on the market, and conflicting views about which ones are effective.
Kings of camshafts: Kelford Cams
Breaking out the magnifying glass and sifting through the spec list of almost any feature article of the piston variety found on the
