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If you've watched the episodes where MOOG discovers the ECU is fried (CLICK HERE) and then when Marty and VAG Commander Myles fix it in secret (CLICK HERE) through a long process of electronic shenanigans. A lot of followers asked why we didn't just rip the stock ECU out and bash a Haltech in to get the car running straight away. Well, the answer isn't that simple and getting the Up! GTI swap to run and function as a car almost involved more work on laptops than physical spanner-twirling and bolt-threading.    Long-time followers of the show know we have had...

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In the 1970s vehicle manufacturers cottoned onto the idea of large-scale platform-sharing to minimise development and tooling costs. Companies like General Motors had a mind-boggling number of brands (GM alone had more than 15 car brands in the '70s) under their one corporate umbrella, so it really didn't make sense to the people in charge of dollars and cents to have every brand spending the time and money to develop their own cars.  Enter the T-car platform.  Aussies, Indonesians, Japanese and Kiwis know this model as the Gemini, sold by both Isuzu and Holden since the mid-1970s. But did you know...

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JDM fans and Euro-tuners typically don't have much crossover, and in each of their respective scenes they have their own front-wheel-drive King. For fans of Japanese cars it is the Honda Civic, while Euro car fans hold the Volkswagen Golf aloft. Interestingly both cars have viable claim to the FWD King crown, but who really sits atop the pantheon of legendary bum-draggers? The Civic beat the Golf to market by two years, launching in 1972 versus 1974. Japanese car fans laud the CIvic as the progenator of the modern front-drive hatch, but that ignores the BMC Mini which launched in 1959 and revolutionised how...

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Sometimes things don't go right, and we end up with an engine making unhealthy noises, or performing poorly. Marty recently went through this with his Levorg (CHECK THE VIDEO HERE) so I figured it was the perfect time to throw some advice out there for the people who are fortunate enough to have not grenaded an engine before. As engines are made up of thousands of individual components, there are dozens of ways they can fail - from innocuous sounding rattles to giant kabooms that end with you driving over your own crank, there are many ways to hurt your...

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We have all seen the Internet melt down when someone stumbles into an old garage and finds a long-abandoned car - but why does this happen?

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