Generation Nexus

Haltech’s new nexus r5 attempts to rewrite the rulebook on engine management and vehicle control electronics. Here’s what it could mean for your street machine

Rat- Tastic!

Steve Metcalfe took a garden-ornament fe holden and turned it into a 900rwhp demon in just four months

Exercise In Restraint

Plenty of people would have you believe that an ht monaro is the perfect muscle car. David galea set out out to improve on perfect

Lone Star Longroof

Two doors, eight cylinders and five forward speeds – texan perfection!

JUNGA BOOGIE

AT WARWICK DRAGWAY DURING COVID-19, LESS TRACTION EQUALS EVEN MORE FUN

VAN GO!

SYDNEY-BASED PHOTOGRAPHER JON VAN DAAL CELEBRATES HIS 50TH YEAR OF SHOOTING DRAG RACING THIS YEAR, WITH 1000 MEETINGS AND A MILLION IMAGES UNDER HIS BELT

WINGS OF STEEL

ONE OF THE MOST ICONIC STREET MACHINES EVER, KEVIN MONK’S DODGE DAYTONA HAS LIVED AN INCREDIBLE LIFE, FROM THE USA TO AUSTRALIA AND BACK AGAIN

HOME - BREWED

COREY SANT BUILT HIS DREAM COMMODORE AT HOME IN THE GARAGE WITH HIS MATES – TO THE TUNE OF MORE THAN 800HP

DARK STAR

THANKS TO 440 CUBES AND 855 HORSES, PETER HARAVITSIDIS’S XY GT TRIBUTE IS AS QUICK AS IT IS MEAN

Chloe Begley

Brisbane, QLD

Regal Splendour

Third time’s a charm for pep minutolo with the latest build of his tubbed and tunnel-rammed vc valiant regal

Star Of The Show

Luke Mitchell and his team built this LJ Torana in just four months for a tv show, and but it ended up in the summernats top 10

Show It WHO's Boss

The Aussie boss V8 is sure to wake up your classic Ford. Here’s how to make it work

Commercial Appeal

With a background in tough old-school streeters, Victoria’s Mark Attard applied some rock-solid traditional tricks to his HSV Maloo build

WINNING GOAL

FORMER AFL PLAYER JAMES GWILT NOW GETS HIS KICKS BEHIND THE WHEEL OF THIS 1100HP, TURBO WINDSOR-POWERED XW FAIRMONT

TOUGH LUV

WE LOOK BACK AT DAVE HEMSWORTH’S AMAZING FJ UTE, BUDGET-BUILT ON A CHEV LUV CHASSIS AS A GENUINE STREETER AT THE HEIGHT OF THE PRO STREET ERA

FIRST DANCE

AARON JAMES CAME ALL THE WAY FROM THE WEST TO TAKE ON DRAG CHALLENGE 2019, WITH SUPERB RESULTS IN HIS VG VALIANT ON DEBUT

CAUGHT THE BUG

REECE REYNOLDS’S VW BEETLE IS A LOW-SLUNG CRUISER THAT PACKS A PUNCH

377CI SMALL-BLOCK CHEV

WESTEND PERFORMANCE, CAMPBELLTOWAN, NSW

Red Centrenats Is Go!

All roads lead to alice springs for the first post-covid car festival!

Brock: Over The Top 2020

A life in the very fast lane

Home-Grown Hero

Morris Markovic built a humble xe falcon into a summernats top 20 showpiece in his garage

Blue-Sky Thinking

Ben Grayland’s modest plan for a nice, simple cruiser kicked off an eight-year snowball that landed his XR falcon in the summernats top 60

TOUR DE FORCE

MARK SANDERS IS ONE OF THE TRUE INNOVATORS OF THE AUSSIE PRO TOURING SCENE, BUILDING CORNER-CARVING WEAPONS THAT WERE ALSO PRETTY HANDY AT PICKING UP AWARDS

MOVING VIOLATION

TO SOME, DEFILING A CLASSIC HOLDEN WITH A FORD MOTOR IS AKIN TO HERESY. BUT FOR AL MCCLURE AND HIS TWO SONS, IT’S SIMPLY A SUREFIRE PATH TO SEVENS

IMPURE THOUGHTS

PATRICK LAWLER AND HIS MATES BUILT A DRAG CHALLENGE WEAPON TO RILE UP THE PURISTS

D-DAY

SPEED PRO’S MARCUS CRIPPS STICKS 1400HP WORTH OF TURBO BARRA INTO AN XD FALCON TO CREATE A SEVEN SECOND STREET MONSTER

DIRTY STUFF

SOMETIMES in this often complicated go-faster game, we end up involved in strange and interesting things – in this instance, soldering brass to aluminium. The method behind this particular job came to me several years back when I was given a very old textbook with the title Modern Motor Repair & Overhauling, Volume III. When I spotted a chapter in this book on welding, brazing and metal-cutting that also made mention of soldering aluminium, I got all interested and read on.

BRODEE ESPIE

ALICE SPRINGS, NT

AFTERBURNER

TWIN-TURBO V8 STREET CARS WERE A RARE COMMODITY IN 1988, BUT GRAHAM SCHILD WAS AHEAD OF HIS TIME WITH THIS WILD VJ CHARGER