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If you're going to work on your car at home there are certain tools or items you should have which will make your life easier from the very outset. These are staples of not only the MCM workshop (as seen in the latest video HERE) but both Marty and MOOG's home garages. 1. A workbench Next to a good quality trolley jack, a workbench is just about mandatory in any garage set-up. For space reasons it isn't always easy to have one of those killer heavy duty set-ups but even a folding plastic table is better than working on the...

Recently Marty installed a 6 Speed gearbox into his 2 door STI. It has an adjustable centre differential but some mods are required to get it to work. In this article we dig deeper into the world of DCCD.

We often see people go into a new project thinking they'd just lower it, before Scope Creep means they're adding all-new coilovers, mad wheels and tyres, big brakes, and all sorts of other mods. But is this the smart way to modify a car? In the latest video on Marty's STi (check it out HERE) and MOOG's BRZ (check it out and get your nose disrespected HERE)  the lads answer this question by looking at some oft-forgotten parts of a car's suspension system: swaybars!   Since bolt-in coilover suspension struts have become cheap and easily purchased, and they allow ride...

Working on mad old nuggets can be a rad time that leaves you with a real sense of satisfaction when you find and fix the problem you've been confronted with... but sometimes there are jobs which confound even the smartest, most experienced Mechanical Wizards.  Intermittent faults, those problems which pop up seemingly at random, are often as fun to successfully diagnose as drilling a third nostril in your own face. Then, once you start doing what seems to be a simple job, it turns out you have accidentally embarked on a massive mission involving half-stripping the car! As Marty found out...

If you work on your car yourself you're probably going to eventually come up against a bolt or nut that simply does not want to come out. Workshop Manuel loves his massive old American cars (and Subarus and E30 BMWs, tragically), and has spent many a day/night fighting stubborn bolts so here are some of his top tips on removing bolts and nuts which do not want to budge. Firstly, check the old "righty-tighty, lefty-loosey" method and make sure you have a can of penetrating spray like the WD40 Our Friend Martin here is modelling. Have a bo peep under...