Automotive
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
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
Gatebil 2017
Norway’s Rodskogen Motorsenter is the venue for Scandinavia’s most mental car show...
2 min |
October 2017
Japanese Performance
Teenage Dream
By including his 10-year-old boy in the build of his tidy Toyota, Steve Cartlidge has not only created a stunning Celica gt-four, but he’s also inspired his son to chase his own automotive ambitions.
8 min |
October 2017
Japanese Performance
Making The Monster
Mad scientist Stuart Jackson has brought his brutal Subaru Impreza to life by transplanting the modified heart and lungs from a Newage model into a lightweight classic body.
7 min |
October 2017
Japanese Performance
A Spark Of Genius
After fitting an Uprated Yuasa battery to the type r, we decided it was high time to give the car’s aging OEM ignition system the same treatment in the form of a set of plasma direct Uprated coil packs.
2 min |
October 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 |