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It shouldn't come as a surprise that prices of our hero cars from the 1990s have sky-rocketed as the era of Hypercolor, rap-rock, and CD-ROMs was more than two whole decades past. This has meant prices for some of our favourite engines has also risen sharply, making engine swaps a spicier burrito to unwrap today.  Years ago it seemed we Australians were swimming in an unending supply of Japanese performance motors, ready and stocked at import yards as complete engine packages or full front-cuts, which we could verily yeet into all manner of many and varied nuggets. But today those...

MOOG has an STi, and not one requiring a topical cream to fix. SPOILER ALERT, but MOOG has a new car (watch it get chopped by Super Gramps HERE), as he goes looking for analogue engagement from a street car he can comfortably daily driver but still get the kinds of old school visceral thrills late-model VAG products seem to miss (remember manual transmissions?). The show isn't called Mighty Stock Cars, so of course the first course of action was for MOOG to chop in and start modding his new daily driver STi. We all want our cars lower, a bit louder,...

If you WATCHED THE LATEST EPISODE where the lads solve an oiling issue with #science - but it has raised a few questions from people wondering why turbochargers need oil (or coolant... or both!) in the first place. And how do you fix a problem where you can't get high-pressure oil? Turbochargers spin around and make boost, right? Which means that we need to keep the spinny bits spinning freely and easily, so they can do their choo-choo thang and make our cars rad and fast. The compressor and turbine wheels are mounted to a shaft that runs through the middle of...

As of November 2021, the Australian government has banned the sale of brand new motorcycles which don't feature two-channel ABS. This law was introduced in 2017 and first took effect in 2019 for all new models of motorcycle being introduced to the Aussie market, but now it will take effect for all existing models.  While the technology is great and will surely save many riders from being injured - or worse - on roads Down Under, it will mean many of MCM's favourite bikes will no longer be able to be purchased brand new. While many people love thundering Harleys, wickedly fast 1000cc...

 While we love our mad boo-BAAAing Civics, as well as legendary models like the NSX and Integra, the greatest motor vehicle Honda has ever produced doesn't feature VTEC... or even four wheels! The brutal truth is despite all the tar-burning performance cars and motorbikes, and all the epic Honda-powered racing cars, the most epic, radtastic and fantabulous creations are the Super Cub and CT series motorcycles. That's right, Pookie; forget trench-digging CR500 dirt bikes or CBR1100XX Super Blackbird road bikes because we're going to talk about some truly society-changing machines here with tiny engines.   Honda's Super Cub step-through, and later CT90 and CT110...