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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

100% hectic: NZBC Round Two at Taupo
Well, here it is. About time, too, seeing as the second round of the New Zealand Burnout Championship wrapped up on

Street fighting in Taupo
Mitsubishis and Subarus going head-to-head in four-wheel drive battle mode Words: Warren Sare Photos: Danny Wood View fullsize Back when

Nissan Motorsport bring back Calsonic and BRE liveries
We reported at the end of last month that the Supercars’ endurance season would be kicked off with this month’s Wilson Security Sandown

Liberty Walk working on Mustang widebody for larger crowds
Previously the domain of supercars and exotics, Liberty Walk kits are expanding out to the pony cars — yep, the Japanese tuning house

Rotary connection: unmolested RX-3 coupe
Finding an unmolested Mazda RX-3 coupe isn’t an easy task, as many examples have been seriously modified — however, with values of

NAC Off Season: Cole Armstrong’s R34 comeback
View fullsize NAC team driver Cole Armstrong has certainly not been resting since his championship win last year, in fact he’s been

Rappers really love them a rebadged Honda
Big titty bitches, lines of Colombian white, and drive-by shootings — the kind of shit we’re used to hearing about in hip hop and rap.

Form rules everything around me: super-lush 1.5JZ-powered Soarer
Jono Smith’s Soarer serves up pure JDM drift style from an era when power was secondary and swagger was king “It’s not a