Cool Runnings: electric air conditioning allows A/C in any project car!
Fat-lapping old cars is great fun, but summer cruising in Australia can be a brutally hot, sweaty affair. While aftermarket air conditioning has been around for a fair while a lot...
FWD v AWD v RWD: why your perfect daily is as individual as your taste in music
THIS VIDEO where the lads pit a BRZ, Golf GTI and Yaris GR against each other on track raised a lot of comments about how each drivetrain does or doesn't...
How to put a 9-inch diff into your overpowered nugget
While it is rad to go to a junkyard today and get an engine which you can then turbocharge using Electro Space Wizard powers to make tar-shredding performance, there are...
Machining engines - if you don't get this right prepare for mechanical devastation
The junkyard build fad has people ripping engines out of crashed nuggets and slapping them into projects with barely a second look at the engine's health. This can be a...
How we built a reliable 1000hp street engine from a junkyard reject
If you've seen THIS VIDEO on my '64 Pontiac Bonneville build you'll have seen me talk about the supercharged engine under its big green bonnet. If you want to see how it...
Why all car enthusiasts should care about Pontiac's racing history
Muscle cars aren't to everyone's taste, and that is ok. But they're vitally important to all car enthusiasts as the muscle car wars of the 1960s marked the first time...
How a bloke called Possum owned rallying
If you've seen the latest episodes, where Marty and MOOG have been jamming a specially-built EZ30 three-litre flat-six into Marty's STI-swapped Levorg, then you'd have heard the name Possum Bourne...
Take the trip! Why you should make the pilgrimage to your automotive Mecca
One of the cornerstones of Mighty Car Mods has been undertaking adventures to see car culture the world over. If you like a particular style of car, a particular race,...
A weekend adventure in an Isuzu D-MAX
My first car had an Isuzu Badge, it also had a Holden badge but it stuck with me. My first import was a JDM Isuzu Gemini I should never have...
The best hot hatch Golf is the original
If you haven't WATCHED THE LATEST EPISODE (CLICK HERE) then you'd have seen Marty and MOOG debate whether MOOG's top-of-the-line all-wheel-drive Mk8 Golf R is the best way to VAG,...
Automotive art shouldn't be hidden in your garage
There are times being a car enthusiast causes confusion. Other people in our lives who don't share our love of maaaad nuggets will question why we love these expensive things...
Why capacity is the key to real street power
People often say turbos are the replacement for displacement, but if you have both then you really are on easy street to making a properly fast car. Look at the ease...
