Category: Featured Cars

  • Wide Arch RWD Mid Engine Vauxhall Nova FEATURE

    We’ve been around a long time now, and we are always getting sent pictures of cars to feature – and here is one of those cars!

    Here is Tony’s wide arch rwd mid engine vauxhall nova. He’s done a complete bear shell resto including a fully rebuilt e16se twin 40dcoe weber carb fast road cam engine over 15 k and he did it all in a tight single garage over two years;

    Engine;
    Fully rebuilt 1.6 E16SE
    Freshly serviced twin 40 webber carbs
    Piper fast road cam
    Piper vernier pully
    Port and polished head
    K&N filters

    Gearbox;
    Rebuilt with a 4.18 final drive
    Lighten and balanced fly wheel
    Ebc sports clutch
    Hydraulic slave cylinder

    Exhaust
    Complete custom stainless steel manifold and exhaust system

    Suspension
    Front Nova coil overs
    Poly bushes
    Lower and upper strut braces
    Gte tie bars and anti roll bar
    Rear corsa c front coil overs
    Corsa c front subframe and set up
    Corsa c front hubs

    Steering;
    Quife 2.5 quick rack

    Brakes;
    Front ebc turbo groveed 258 mm disc and ebc yellow stuff pads
    Caviler front calipers
    Rear mk5 astra calipers
    Mk astra handbrake cables
    Pug 106 disc
    Ebc red stuff pads
    Harry hockley bias pedal box
    Hydrolic handbrake

    Interior;
    Corbeau revolution seats fia approved
    Luke 6 point harnees fia approved
    Plumbed in fire extingsher
    Full roll cage
    Solid side mounts for seats
    Black gsi dash
    Gte digital dash
    Door card re trim in black
    All brake fuel and water pipes routed in side car

    Exterior;
    Wide arch kit
    Poly carb windows
    Front with scoopes and sliders
    Single wiper conversion
    Gsi spoiler
    Painted in astra vxr oylimpic white

    Wheels;
    Cav 5 spoke
    Toyo proxie t1r tyres

    Fuel system;
    Alloy fuel tank filled with foam
    Facet fuel pump
    Fuel reg a filter king

    Misc;
    Hid headlight kit
    Been rolling road and set up buy aldon automotive

    
  • Seriously packed out Honda S2000

    Hot off the press is this fine example of a Honda S2000 from Jakarta in Indonesia.  Without boring you with a write up we have decided to give you the full spec. As you will soon see, its a pure beast!!

    Exterior:

    C-WEST Front Bumper
    C-WEST Front Canards
    C-WEST Side Skirts
    HONDA OEM Paint New Indy Yellow Pearl
    HONDA OEM AP2 Headlights
    HONDA OEM AP2 Taillights
    HONDA OEM Rear Bumper

    Volk Racing TE-37 Top Secret Edition with ADVAN Neova AD07:
    18″ x 8″ front 225/40 , 18″ x 8.5″ rear 235/40
    Bilstein Coilovers
    Seidoya Heavyduty Brakepads

    Engine:

    ARC Titanium Induction Kit
    Cusco Strutbar
    TODA 2.2 L stroke-up kit + I-beam conrods
    TODA Customized Piston Heads (to fit 1.5mm bored up cylinder body)
    TODA High Lift Camshafts in 295deg (13mm) / ex 275deg (12mm)
    TODA SPL Valve Spring
    TODA Metal Head Gasket
    TODA Main Bearing + Conrod Bearings
    TODA Oil Ring

    TODA Throttle Body
    TODA Timing Chain
    J’s Racing Dual Titanium Exhaust
    J’s Racing Racing Cold Thermostat
    J’s Racing Hyper Single Clutch
    HKS Headers 4-1
    HKS F-Con VPro II
    HKS Sensors + Map Selector + Pro Start button ( Launch Control + Traction Control )
    HKS M40 Iridium Plugs

    Bore-up 1.5mm Cylinder Bodies + Porting Polish done by Garage R Singapore
    Engine Tune by Lester Wong – Garage R Singapore

    280hp on crank @ 10.600 rpm with 96 octane normal fuel
    320hp on crank @ 11.680 rpm with HKS Drag Racing Fuel
    11k redline rev.

    Photography by Muhammad Balbed

  • Ultimate Street Car (USC) 2010

    Now then, we don’t often get dictatorial here.. but for once, we’re going to.. so listen up! Whatever you did have planned for the three days between the 6th and 8th of August, cancel it!.. because you’re all hanging out with us, instead! Why? Because it’s only the bloomin’ weekend of USC, that’s why!

    If you’ve never been before, let me enlighten you with the elevator pitch. The finest drag strip in Europe. 35,000 modifying disciples. (many of which are pert and female) The UK’s most superbly executed show cars. The best bands, DJs and tuners. Are you in yet? USC has justifiably achieved the status of ‘legend’ on the show calendar, and a single visit will soon tell you why. No other show packs as much into three days, with real heads-up quarter mile action playing out against a backdrop of high-octane antics that make Ferris Bueller’s Day Off look like the Teddy Bear’s Picnic. To top things of, those lovely Pod people have even frozen the tickets at last year’s prices, so you have no excuse!

    Top level drag racing is the order of the day, with Euro Sports Compact drivers battling it out in the kind of times that make Ferrari owners weep into their leather. Or, if you prefer, why not wander over to the drifting area where sideways is the new forwards and tyre smoke is the new oxygen.

    In addition to a head spinning line up of acts like Slinky, DJ Luck and MC Neat and the Artful Dodger, you can bank on a (literally) record breaking line-up of stunt performers, Monster Trucks, Jet cars and show cars.

    Ever ones for a challenge, we’ve even added the Dotz Mod Pod live build area where our carefully assembled team of spanner wielding artistes will be standing by to rip apart and rebuild a stock hot hatch into a modified thing of beauty over the show weekend. Yep, as DJs spin some of the choicest vinyl in the background, our long-suffering team will be gutting a tuner-scene favourite back to a shell before commencing with a full-bore rebuild including chassis, interior, induction, exhaust, tints, wrap, lighting and audio.. and of course, a simply stunning set of Dotz rims. With only 3 days to do what takes most tuning houses at least a full week, plus of course, the added pressure of 35,000 petrolheads… and a TV crew. Oh yes! almost forgot to mention, the entire show is being shot for Eurosport and Motors, so if you, your car, your missus are camera friendly, who knows, you might end up on the telly! Actually, seeing as we are on drinking terms with the producers, we might even put in a good word for you!

    Of course, elsewhere on site, there are simply acres of space for club camping, hardcore BBQ action and chance to kick back with a cold beer and recant your tales of quarter mile heroics. Stock up before you arrive, and you’re free to park up the motor and seriously over-indulge for the entire weekend as everything you need is on site, with several bars and even a lap-dancing club!

    Sprinkle on a side order of live stage, Lowriders display, Burnout and Flameout comps and the Autoglym showcar paddock and pretty soon, it becomes the ultimate road trip weekend away. You’ll kick yourselves if you miss it, so don’t!

    We’ll see you there guys! Check it all out at www.ultimatestreetcar.co.uk