Automotive
Japanese Performance
Air Attack
By Amassing a Stash of Time Attack Silverware,cody Miles’ Air-ride Equipped Track Impreza Isredefining What a ‘bagged’ Car Is Capable of
8 min |
March 2017
Japanese Performance
Like A Boss
JR Motorworx has built a bonkers Mazda RX-7 that has got everyone talking...
7 min |
October 2017
Japanese Performance
Japshow
Santa pod was once again rammed with Japanese metal as the popular Japshow event kicked off in style.
2 min |
October 2017
Japanese Performance
All Work And No Play…
…Makes Jack a dull boy. But that doesn’t mean you should get all Jack Torrance and go on a rampage – following Chris Forsberg’s example, you can fuse work with leisure with winning results.
5 min |
October 2017
Japanese Performance
Colour Conundrum
Under the skin, project RX-8 is as fresh as a daisy with many components replaced for brand new, including the engine, now it’s time for the car’s exterior to be brought up to scratch, too.
2 min |
October 2017
Japanese Performance
Brake It In Gently
Let's start where you stop this month by treating project 5 to a brand new set of discs and pads from MTEC and a complete caliper overhaul.
3 min |
October 2017
Japanese Performance
Highway Head Turner
For Lauren Penfold, a build has to look perfect and draw attention. Her bagged and Bodykitted DC5 certainly does that.
8 min |
October 2017
Japanese Performance
Money Talks
The R34 skyline GT-R is caught up in a whirlwind of investment and fresh interest. Luckily, this fine example, tuned by Japanese Nissan specialists signal auto, hasn’t lost any of its soul along the way...
7 min |
November 2017
Japanese Performance
Big City Brawler
New York-based Mitsubishi fan Nawshin Basher has built an Evo with enough muscle to rule the big apple’s meanest streets.
5 min |
November 2017
Japanese Performance
Fortune Favours The Brave
It takes a lot of balls to chop up an appreciating modern classic like an NSX. Luckily, Los Angeles-based Honda fan Leon casino had the Cohones to gamble and came away with the jackpot.
7 min |
November 2017
Japanese Performance
Breathe In...
Project z gets a freer flowing oem inlet manifold for a mild bhp boost courtesy of honda parts specialists tegiwa imports.
2 min |
November 2017
Japanese Performance
Japanese Performance Show
Once again Stoneleigh park in Coventry was the venue for the only indoor Japanese car show in England.
2 min |
December 2017
Japanese Performance
Crail Jap Performance Day
Scotland’s premier drag racing venue welcomed fans of Japanese metal to rip up the strip and destroy the drift arena.
2 min |
December 2017
Japanese Performance
When Type R Is Not Enough...
What do you do if you want more than Honda’s run of the mill hot hatch offerings? You get yourself a Mugen…
6 min |
December 2017
Japanese Performance
In It To Win It
The lucky winner of our Eibach/dream automotive private label spring kit gets his prize.
5 min |
December 2017
Japanese Performance
Suspended Animation
Suspension is one of the most important modifications when building a track car, so why did I make such a mess of it the first time around?
3 min |
December 2017
Japanese Performance
The Pursuit of Perfection
With a clever fusion of high-end parts and genius motorsport engineering, torque developments international has potentially built customer james moodey the world’s finest Mitsubishi Evo x…
10 min |
April 2017
Japanese Performance
Bringing Sexy Back
Damian spendlove’s provocatively-styled nissan 200sx was built in a home garage using spare parts, inspired by the stunning japanese street drifters of the early noughties
7 min |
April 2017
Japanese Performance
Bad Obsession
After getting hooked on mazda’s sexy fd rx-7s in his late teens, tom ruston-shaw has been feeding his unhealthy addiction ever since
9 min |
April 2017
Japanese Performance
Small But Mighty
In a time when engine swaps are commonplace, it takes a special kind of maverick to stand out from the crowd. Canadian tuning fan aaron weir is just that, and his rwd, s2000-engined honda crx definitely dares to be different
7 min |
April 2017
Japanese Performance
Rocket Launcher
Posing for the Camera Wasn’t a Problem for This Rocket Bunny Nissan Silvia Built by Garage 21, One of the Best-looking Drift Cars We’ve Ever Seen!
8 min |
March 2017
Japanese Performance
MIMMS Xmas Meet
Japanese Performance Heads to Stoneleigh Park in Coventry for a Final Hurrah of 2016 at the Mimms Honda Xmas Meet
1 min |
March 2017
Japanese Performance
Get a Grip!
With Just Shy of 400BHP on Tap, and a Heavy Right Foot, the Boys at Hel Performance Are Already in Need of a New Set of Rubber for Their Fk2 Honda Civic Type R. Step Up Michelin, With Your Yummy Pilot Super Sports!
2 min |
March 2017
Japanese Performance
Smoking Skills
Paul ‘Smokey’ smith unleashes the UK’s first Toyota GT86 competition drift car...And it has a 700bhp 1.5JZ-GTE under the bonnet!
7 min |
November 2017
Japanese Performance
Mimms Honda Trackday
Hot Hondas hit the track at the summer edition of the mimms honda trackday.
1 min |
November 2017
Japanese Performance
Gravity 2017
Gravity. It’s a pretty essential force for life on this planet.
2 min |
November 2017
Japanese Performance
The Unlikely Lads
Think Mazda lost its way with the third generation MX-5? Think again. These two surprisingly different machines are out to remind us just what a fantastic car we’ve been overlooking for more than a decade…
7 min |
November 2017
Japanese Performance
Wrapper's Delight
This 2015 Subaru WRX STI proves it’s often the simplest modifications that make the biggest impact...
7 min |
November 2017
Japanese Performance
Return To Sender
This month the civic was in development mode as top hose bods racing lines used the car to design a new modular fuel return system to be used with their existing fuel rail kit.
3 min |
November 2017
Japanese Performance
The Tribute
With a rare TCP magic wide body conversion and lashings of carbon-fibre, jonny grunwald’s radical RX-7 has been built to honour the top tuner cars of Japan.
8 min |