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- Street Machine TV
Video: The Lexcen takes on the Optima Ultimate Street Car Challenge!
Scotty takes the freshly track prepped Lexcen to the 2024 Optima Street Car Challenge!
16 hours ago - News
Street Machine May 2024 issue on sale now!
Check out what’s inside the new issue, on sale now
2 days ago - Street Machine TV
Video: New wheels, tyres and suspension for the Lexcen!
In this episode of Carnage, Scotty gets the 1UZ Lexcen ready for the Optima Challenge with some handling upgrades
1 week ago - MotorEx
Meguiar’s MotorEx 2024: The Superstars
Check out the Superstars finalists for 2024!
1 week ago -
Auction watch: Max Wilson executive-special HJ Statesman coupe!
2 weeks ago -
Bring your ride to the Optima Ultimate Street Car Challenge at Calder Park this Saturday
2 weeks ago -
Video: The MotorEx thrash begins!
2 weeks ago -
Vale Sports Sedan legend Bob Gill
2 weeks ago
- Features
Zac Shepherd’s RB30-powered LJ Torana
Glorious RB30 power sent Zac Shepherd’s debutant LJ Torana to second in Tuff Mounts 235 Blown at Drag Challenge 2023
6 hours ago - Features
Jay Duca’s quad-rotor VL Commodore
Japanese steeze meets Aussie iconography in Jay Duca’s genre-hopping VL
23 hours ago - Features
Phil Rillotta’s 1932 Ford five-window coupe
A dyed-in-the-wool street machiner, Phil Rillotta still couldn’t resist the lure of a hot rod
2 days ago - Features
Greg Wilton’s FB Holden coupe
Looking back on Greg Wilton’s neat mild custom FB coupe from West Oz
3 days ago -
Tech: The basics of chrome plating
3 days ago -
Ben Pike’s blown Chev C20 pickup – flashback
4 days ago -
Summernats 36 Grand Champion-winning Dodge Charger
4 days ago -
James Bullions’s stunning, slammed Mazda R100
6 days ago
Events
- Drag Racing
Jamboree: Sydney Dragway
Killer action from Jamboree at Sydney Dragway
3 days ago - MotorEx
Ten reasons not to miss Meguiar’s MotorEx
Meguiar’s MotorEx 2024 is going to be huge! Here’s why:
4 days ago - Drag Racing
Nitro Champs rescheduled to 17-19 May
New dates for the Nitro Champs at Sydney Dragway, 17-19 May
4 days ago - MotorEx
Meguiar’s MotorEx 2024: The Superstars
Check out the Superstars finalists for 2024!
1 week ago -
Street Heat: Dragway at the Bend
1 week ago -
Results: Optima Ultimate Street Car Challenge 2024
2 weeks ago -
Bring your ride to the Optima Ultimate Street Car Challenge at Calder Park this Saturday
2 weeks ago -
Harrop-blown HQ at the Optima Ultimate Street Car Challenge
2 weeks ago
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Car Auctions
- News
Auction watch: Max Wilson executive-special HJ Statesman coupe!
This uber-rare factory project coordinated by Leo Pruneau is crossing the block soon
2 weeks ago - News
Auction watch: HDT VL, EB GT, HT GTS, VC Commodore and more!
There’s some epic metal up for grabs with Grays this week, so let’s take a look!
2 weeks ago - News
Auction watch: Blown big-block 1965 Chev Impala SS
A ballsy, blown Chevelle SS is up for auction, with the proceeds going to a great cause
2 weeks ago - News
Auction watch: Tough VN SS, XW GT tribute, Integra Type R and more!
We check out what’s on offer at this week’s Grays classic car auction
4 weeks ago -
Auction watch: LX Torana, Nissan 180SX, manual HSV wagon and more!
2 months ago -
Auction: Premcar Holy Grail FG-X Falcon
3 months ago -
Rebodied Ford Falcon XY GTHO Phase III sold at auction
4 months ago -
HSV GTSR W1 with 32km reaches $350K at auction
4 months ago
More Car Auctions >>
Technical
- DIY
Tech: The basics of chrome plating
If beauty is only skin deep, then good chrome has a very thick skin
3 days ago - DIY
Tech: Breakdown Basics
Has your broken-down ride got you hot under the collar? Here are a few tips to help get your car charged, cool and back on the road
7 days ago - DIY
Wheel alignment basics: what toe, camber and caster mean
We explain the three common terms used in a wheel alignment and how they affect your car
3 weeks ago - DIY
The benefits of stripping paint by soda blasting
Take several kilos of baking soda and throw it at your car. Really hard. It’ll take the paint clean off. You think we’re kidding?
4 weeks ago -
Fitting airbag suspension to your street machine
1 month ago -
Tech: ceramic coating for car components
2 months ago -
Tech: How a limited slip differential works
2 months ago -
Tech: understanding how camshafts work and the terminology
3 months ago
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Custom Engines
- Features
ProFlo Performance-built Nissan CA18 mill
Overshadowed by the Nissan SR20 turbo, the CA18 is a turbocharged gem more resembling the straight-six RB25. ProFlo Performance built this ripper little combo for a customer’s Datsun 1200 with the goal of reaching 500rwhp
4 weeks ago - Features
Grooty’s Race & Resto-built BMW M20B25 six combo
Danno ‘Grooty’ Groot built this BMW hot six combo for his partner’s ’85 E30 race car
1 month ago - Features
Cam Waters’s XB Falcon coupe is powered by screaming, Supercars-bred 369ci Windsor
Here’s what happens when a professional Supercars racer commissions an ex-Supercars and Nascar engineer to build a ball-tearing mill for his street machine
2 months ago - Features
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
3 months ago -
BG Engines blown 355ci Holden V8 combo
4 months ago -
Turbo Toyota 1UZ-FE V8 mill in the build
4 months ago -
ProFlo Performance-built twin-turbo 403-cube LQ9 combo
5 months ago -
404-cube nitrous small-block Chev combo
6 months ago