August 2010 Issue: #164
Cover Feature
free Poster : Ford Courier 2005 Extra cab powered by Mazda Triple Rotar 20B 'The Joker" and reverse side this months babe
Babe (eye candy)
- Lortia age 21 who lives in Auckland & Gold Coast (looks like the best looker this year ...finally...)
Column
Cover Vehicle
- Ford Courier 2005 Extra cab powered by Mazda Triple Rotar 20B (ex Cosmo?) lightened and balanced 6 x staged 550cc injectors ....Turbosmart fuel pressure regular ..via EXtreme Clutch RX 7 Gearbox... suitablely lowerd and owned by guy who claims he has owned 300 vehicles that he made a profit on to pay for the mods on this 'mini truck' "The Joker" carrieds Batman Joker mural on part of the bonnet owned by Paul Gibson age 50 a Paintworkz manager - words by Falgoon Patel
Editorial (Launch Control) by Peter Kelly (taken over from Brad)
- Gray disusses been depressed in the cold conditions in preparing this issue sutiably clothed in baseball cap the hoodie with warm drinks and looks forward to summer ...(do you really lot like that?)
Engine History (Knowledge History Lesson) -New by Rob DawsonThat Excellent feature - started Jan -
Events Coming
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Aug 1 Honda Cup Round 4 at Taupo International Raceway
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Aug 8 Winter Drag Wars at Fram Autolite Dragwars in Meremere
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Sept 12 Honda Cup Round 5 at Hampton Downs Motorsport Park
Event Reports -NZ
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About Sound -Final Round of Drift South series at Ruapuna CHCH on Morning May 8 2010 Report and photos "Final Push" qv by Kent Shrimpton
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Dodson Motorsport private clients get togther on Hampden Downs for Nissan GT-R R35 owners of which 9 turned up! "Field of Dreams" qv by Peter Kelly including photos
Event Reports -Overseas
- The World Time Attack Challenge held At Eastern Creek Raceway in Sydney May 21-22 2010 - first time offered photos of great cars ; attractive young woman in good weather "On the Clock" qv by Peter Kelly
Fantasy Factory - New
- Suzuki Swift GTI (SF) 3 door Hatch a fantasy of what one were do assuming they had unlimited tiime and money
Feature (overseas) Tuning Overseas Japanese
- Dropping in to one of the 'Upgarage' stores in Japan - what you see words by Aaron Mail
Features Cars
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Mitsubishi Evolution III (CE9A) 1995 4 door sedan - 4G63T 2000cc Je Pistons Egle rods Kelford 272 cams ..Garrett G30/40 turbo ...via Evol III gearbox...belongs to Andy Glasglow of Wanganui (Glasglow good Wanganui name may have gone to school with your Dad?) "D-LOW EVO" qv by Falgoon Patel
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Subaru Impreza HX (GC8) Sports Hatch 1995 uses EJ20T Wiseco Forged pistons strenthed bottom end with Version 7 STI rods ...TD05 Hybrid Turbocharger via 5 speed STI RA gearbox... owned by Reuben Bemrose a lwaw undergraduate blood red although discribed as "Tangerine Dream"Ref BLAZD car and he hails from Wellington (it good to see more Welly people...i wonder if NZPC thinks the scene is all Auckland!) words by Falgoon Patel
Feature Cars -Old School (great to see lots of old school!)
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Datsun 1200 Sunny B10 Coupe 1972 racer that races in the SS2000 race class "where it regularly destoys most of the competition: car owned by Rick Bones although owned by Ben Cox as former race car Rick himself has owned car for 5 years and has engineered and tuned the car -the cars runs a Datsun A15 1500cc 4 cyl with JE Forged Pistons ....via Datsin 60 Series 5 speed Nismo SCCR gear set "Napoleon Complex" qv by Peter Kelly
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Toyota Corolla Coupe Hatch 1985 AE85 (Is your NZ new?) owned by 18 Year old Turf Science Undergrad Hugo Maclean car fitted with turbo charged S2000 Honda F20C 4 DOHC Vtec DSR 480 Turbocharger ...via Honda S2000 6speed - watch out for those skirts on those country roads - great to see its car that used on roads wih the scrapes on skirts and bit damage here and there Car looks almost stock "Dawn Raid" as Peter Kelly who wrote this had to get up at 5am to sounds of Jimu 'Purple Haze' to meet at photoshot location
Grassroots
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NZPC Wanganui Street Meet "Wanganui rolling" Report +photos of some of the vehicles there -words by Falgoon Pastel
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Skidfest at Meremere "Skids On!" qv mainly colour pictorial by Jason Ganley plenty of old school there
Import Racing
Inside Industry (industry Insider) Business Service profile
- Eden Tyres at 496 Mt Eden Road Auckland run by Vedran and the team
Insideline News
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All Classic Japanese Race Series series that started in 2009 the 2010 season starts in a few months visit their site on
www.acjs.co.nz for more details
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'Fanga' Dan Woodhouse picking up more trophies with his RB26 Holden Commodore (why isn't a V8 engine used?) rtecent win in Malaysia at Goodwood international drift series (I think Holdens are sold there?)
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Parliament approves Crusher Collins - Boy Racer Car Cusher law (personly I think 3 warnings is too soft on the idiots) and CHCH Council has passed its controversial Cruiser law
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Richard Mason driving the late Stace Hopper WRX 969 4 door sedan has wom the Dunlop WRX in poor weather
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Rhys Millen an expat Kiwi (he was born in the us was he not?) latest racer foe unlimited series at Pikes Peak looks like a cross between a Ford C Racer a McLaren F1 and batmobile new Hyundai based PM580 Hill Climb Special on prepartion testing at El Toro Airforce "Pikes Peak Exclusive" qv
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Speedtech Motorsport updates its sites with e commernce shop
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Steve Millen is bringing his prepared R35 GT-R to NZ it will be on display at Speed Show in July in Auckland
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a little More...
Letters (24 Feedback)
Looking Back (Back in the Day -Fast Forward)
Motorcycles
- BMW S1000RR - Test by Gareth Hughes
New Products (Knowledge) adverts
New Products (Gear for your ride) adverts
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Mazdabits for Mazda Engine bits
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Momo Millennium Evo Steering Wheel
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Navman MY500XT containing built in AAlive traffic system
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Sony DSX-S100 Digital Media Reciever
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more...
On-Line Update
Project Car -Racer X (B16A) -Honda CRX Gen 2 Coupe 91 CR-X SiR - a Street Legal Track Hack on the cheap (Yeh Cheap in terms of those on a fat Auckland salary!)
- Finally after a year the car is complete Reg JTUNE "X Hits the Spot" qv by Brad Lord
Readers Car (Daily Driven) Good to see the ladies cars are featured...
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Nissan S15 Silvia Coupe 1999 - runs SR200DET HKS GT-SS Turbo... via 6speed Manual Nismo GT LSD Diff belonging to Hayley Quartermain age 20 of Palmerston North
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Toyota Corolla KE26 2 door estate 1972 Reg Lolady -runs 3K 1200cc Motor 7 later 5 speed K50 gearbox owned by Tracey Lee Parked age 23 a Used Japanese car parts salesperson
Review/Introduction
Games
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Super Street Figter IV produced by Capcom on platform Xbox 360 and PS3
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Undisputed 2010 Kick Boxing Game on plat form PS3 , Xbox 360
Sport
Street Legal (a New Regular Column) by Counties-Manukau Road Policing Sargent Mark Flemming Lays down the law on:
- Q "Sometimes an officer will write the word 'compliance on a ticker. What is compliance?"
Sunday Driver
Tech Support (Knowledge)
- Andre of Speedtech Motorsport discusses: Turbochargers "Dre Anatomy" qv
Under Construction
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Mazda RX2 4 door sedan S1 Reg NASTY2 in black a car that used to run a 13b Bridgeport motor turbo and 4speed trans Craig Davis is adding a 20B with series 5 RX7 Box car had Pulse Performance Race Engineering in Wanganui
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Nissan S15 Coupe of Hamish Thomson from CHCH wants to build a car with 300bhp wants to use VQ30DET from a 1997 Nissan Gloria Grand Turismo
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Toyota Starlet 5 door hatch S1 KP61 of Cameron Spooner car will run Mitsubishi 4G63 engine mated to 5speed sigma gearbox
And Much More...