Innehållsförteckning för No 269 May 2019 från NZ Performance Car

Now, I know that speedway is not something that we cover in NZ Performance Car and it sits outside the realms of what the magazine is at its core. Despite this, I know a lot of you enjoy a good Saturday night under lights watching the sport, be it midgets and sprint cars, or saloons and stocks. Given just how popular it is here in New Zealand, you probably even know a driver or crew member or two. So I wanted to touch on the recent turn of events surrounding Western Springs Speedway effectively being shown the door after a 90-year tenure at its CBD location by its landlord, Regional Facilities Auckland (RFA). The RFA, a council-controlled entity responsible for all public facilities in Auckland, has tried to sidestep the…

Back for the fourth year running, The Tint Shop’s Show & Shine is going down on Sunday, 5 May 2019! While the event is hosted at the same location as previous years (The Tint Shop, 101 Port Road, Whangarei), because of how packed it was last time around, The Warehouse has kindly lent the use of half their car park to allow the event to become even bigger — anyone that’s been to the North knows how much extra parking that is. The Show & Shine kicks off at 10am sharp, entry doesn’t cost a dime for cars or spectators, and there’s even a free BBQ to score yourself some snags. And to sweeten the deal that little bit more, it’s the same weekend as the Rally of Whangarei, and…

With championship wins in both SS200, GT2, and numerous top tens at Leadfoot, Andy Duffin and the 3 Rotor Race team have now set their sights on the Eneos North Island Endurance Series (NIES) with the Link ECU FD RX-7. The team have been busy making changes to the car swapping from sprint to endurance spec, changes that include revamping the cooling in the cabin — heat soak causing the in-cabin temps to reach 65 degrees after a 20 minute run. Naca ducts, heat sheilding, and a drinks system have now been added too. Mechcanially the FD now has an extra fuel cell to bring capacity up to 90 litres, which is complete with a twin dry break system. Flat shifting has also been added to the Link ECU, cutting…

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AS THE EVO III WAS NEVER SOLD NEW HERE, THIS IS ONE OF THE ONYL NZ NEW EXAMPLES, AS IT WAS IMPORTED BY RALLIART NZ IN 1995 ALONG WITH TWO OTHERS, ALTHOUGH IT NEVER SAW RACE MILES UNLIKE THE OTHER TWO WHICH CONTESTED THE ‘95 NZ RALLY SEASON. There was once a time, which almost seems a distant memory now, when Japanese manufacturers cranked out back-to-back performance models as they took swings at their rival brands over the boardroom table in the pursuit of automaker supremacy. These bloody battles extended to the proving grounds of motorsports the world over, and many now-priceless examples of automotive steel were sentenced to the crushers to ultimately become whiteware as a result of these exploits. These low number, stripped-out motorsport models were practically given…

Wind the clock back 10–15 years and you could have easily picked up an R32 GTS-T, Supra JZA80, or Evo I–III with just $10K in your pocket and daily-driven the hell out of it. Many of you would have, and a select few of you might still be lucky enough to own one of those cars. But, in 2019, those and many more like them are worth wild sums of money. If you find one that could be had for $10K or under, there’s probably a solid reason that it’s priced so low. So, what do you do when you’re on the hunt for a new daily-driver but don’t want to wait five minutes to hit the posted speed limit when taking off at the lights? It’s a big world…

NAME: CALEB HART // AGE: 25 LOCATION: PUKEKOHE // OCCUPATION: BUILDER NZ Performance Car: Hey, Caleb. Is this the first S15 that you’ve owned? Caleb: Hi, guys. Yeah this is my first one. I’ve been wanting to own an S15 ever since a good friend, Jeven Judge, had one in the same colour that was super low over a good set of wheels, which looked amazing seven years ago. That sold them for me, and I had been looking for the right one from then on. I went as far as viewing one in Rotorua that I didn’t buy, same with another in Matamata. Hard to find a tidy example now. Like most cars now. How’d you get into cars, and what was your first modified example? I suppose I’ve…

ROUND THREE RESULTS TRACK: HAMPTON DOWNS MOTORSPORT PARK WHEN: 16–17 MARCH 2019 PRO CLASS 1. DARREN KELLY — Nissan R35 (RB32) 2. MATTY HILL — Nissan S15 (2JZ) 3. DAYNOM TEMPLEMAN — BMW E46 (2JZ) PRO-SPORT CLASS 1. JORDAN JOYCE — Nissan S13 (RB25) 2. AARON HYATT — Nissan S14.5 (2JZ) 3. TAYLOR JAMES — Nissan S14 (RB25) HAYMAN MOTORSPORT RETURNS If you’ve been following the series for near on a decade or have found yourself in the pits from time to time, you’ll probably recognize the name ‘Eddie Hayman’. He’s been in and around the series for longer than even he can remember, having grown up watching and following the path of the series OGs such as Adam Richards, Justin Rood, Tiger White, Sean Falconer, and Victor Chapman, and…

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Damn, we’re bloody lucky to have the level of aftermarket support that we have today when it comes to modifying almost any chassis. The pioneers of yesteryear put in those hard yards so that, with a bit of googling, a couple of quick phone calls, and by punching in your credit-card details online, you’ve got yourself everything you need to build a rad car sitting on your doorstep within hours. It’s like being in a candy shop as a kid and having your parents, instead of only letting you get a couple of lollies, hand you the credit card and tell you to go to town. I don’t know about you, but most of my spare mind space is used to piece together infinite numbers of builds that I tell…

Heads up to anyone who has modified their car, or who intends to — which should be all of you: the Low Volume Vehicle Technical Association (LVVTA), the organization that sets certification standards, will soon open the Low Volume Vehicle Standard 205-00(02): Wheels and Tyres for consultation. What that means is that you will have your chance to pass comment on the existing standard and any suggestions or issues may be taken into account when it is revised in the near future. The Wheels and Tyres standard includes all requirements for wheels and tyres on LVV-certified vehicles, including tyre-to-rim fitments, wheel spacers and adaptors, and wheel manufacturing requirements. Ever thought that not being able to run a 215/40 tyre on an 11-inchwide wheel is a crime against humanity? This is…

When Skyline GT-Rs started heading towards low-seven-second ETs and 200mph (322kph) trap speeds across the ditch in Aus-land, all the while retaining the ability to legally drive on public roadways, the world eagerly awaited the day that a six would flash up on the timing boards. Maatouks Racing and Croydon Racing Developments (CRD) may have traded the record back and forth a handful of times, but it was the ‘JUN II’ car of CRD that broke into the six bracket first, on 6 March at Sydney Motorsport Park. The pass was recorded at 6.97 at 202mph (325kph), making JUN II the quickest and fastest street-legal GT-R on the planet. If that wasn’t good enough for the team at CRD, the very next day, the car ran another record-breaking pass, this…

Sadly, the founder and creative mind behind the legendary JUN Auto, Junichi ‘Jun’ Tanaka, passed away at the age of 76 on the morning of 5 March 2019. His passing followed complications from a short battle with cancer. While he was a man who liked to stay out of the limelight, preferring to let his work reflect his thoughts, Junichi leaves behind a legacy of bright yellow, racewinning and record-breaking vehicles that dominated multiple disciplines, along with a stable of high-performance demo cars and a serious range of battle-tested components, all engineered and perfected in the heat of racing under his leadership. Born in 1943, Junichi was part of a family of metalsmiths whose Tanaka Industrial Co. was founded in 1946 when Junichi was just three years old. The company…

When you hang around a workshop or two like we do, then you’re always picking up ways that guys work. Little tips that save you time and money and, quite frankly leave you wondering why the hell you’ve been doing it the way you have been all your life! So we thought it would be handy to share our favourites with you in the hope you’ll up your hack game. Some you may know, others you may not, and, if you don’t, we hope they are game changers for your own weekend hacking. If you have any workshop hacks worth sharing let us know. TRIM SILICONE HOSE SQUARE Cutting silicone hose is one of those pesky jobs that seems simple at first, but cutting that sucker straight is another story,…

In a sea of 2JZs, Nikki Hepburn is bucking the trend while also smashing records with her Pro Turbo 1FZ-FE–powered Toyota 86. The car was the first radial-tyre car to run a six, and currently holds the record for both fastest and quickest radial tyre in the world — a record they keep chipping away at. The current PB, which was set in Orlando, is 6.55s at 217mph (349kph), which puts the team almost half a second ahead of its competition. While the 1FZ-FE — an engine that’s usually found in Land Cruisers — might sound like a strange choice, it is, in fact, rather popular, with the likes of Ben Bray running one in his Solara to a PB of 6.58s; Titan Motorsports has also used one. Aftermarket parts…

If you missed part one of the 1000-plus-horsepower (746-pluskilowatt) pump-gas SR20DET engine build for Cook Motor Racing (CMR) last issue, we suggest that you go back and read that before following on with this here. The couriers we mentioned in that article have indeed been running red hot. The team is now in possession of a pair of billet SR20 blocks out of Australia — Reg Cook did not have time to machine any locally as was done previously with CMR’s Synergypowered record attempts. The team is planning to build four complete SRs for the assault: two mule engines using factory SR blocks and some lower cost, off-the-shelf components, and then two complete race engines using the billet blocks, cranks, and all the high-end components — the kind of stuff…

1. IT’S FASTER THAN YOU THINK While people are bagging it for being based on a BMW Z4, the truth of the matter is: it’s a fast car. The advertised power figure of 239kW is probably a little ambiguous, given that the Z4 M40i–derived B58B30 makes an advertised 285kW in the Z4. Chief engineer Tetsuya Tada has said: “One day, perhaps, we [will] cut the speed limiter and try the Time Attack [on the Nürburgring], but even just driving it as it is, it’s really fast. On the old course, it’s very easy to break eights; 7.5, 7.4 — it will do that easily.” 2. IT’S SUPER RIGID Get ready to three-wheel over some ripple strips! It’s been revealed — again by Tetsuya Tada — that the chassis has achieved…

HYPER ESTATE There’s a million reasons to build a car exactly how you want it, and usually there’s more than one thrown into the mix. For Hayden Wilson and his ’98-spec Honda Orthia — originally powered by mundane B20B and automatic transmission, with such features as rear drum brakes and ’90s-era ABS — it was the allure of modern power, reliability, and practicality that saw a K-series heart being shoehorned into the engine bay. “I used to own an H22-powered Euro R, which I really enjoyed driving. That was sold for a[n] ’05 DC5 Integra with the economy K20A3 motor, which I planned to swap with a K24, but it was sold before I had the chance,” explains Hayden. “[I had] ideas of putting a K20 into a Civic hatch,…

After the Gymkhana series creator and prolific Hoonigan wheelman Ken Block watched his 1991 Ford Escort Cosworth Group A rally car burn to the ground while racing in New England in July 2018, he knew exactly what to do: build an all-new Cossie and take it on a worldwide tour! The Hoonigan crew announced a new episodic YouTube series that will be live on Block’s channel and detail the tour as the team and Cossie V2 travel the world competing in various national-level stage rally events — including stints at the Goodwood Festival of Speed and Gymkhana GRID. As New Zealand rallying has a pretty serious name on the international scene, Block has confirmed that he will be coming to the International Rally of Whangarei, 3–5 May 2019. It won’t…

We’re on the back straight of the year, and the team behind the Yokohama World Time Attack Challenge (WTAC) has announced the dates for the 2019 incarnation! So, if you’ve had your mouse hovering over the buy-now button on your favourite airline’s website, waiting for the dates to drop, wait no more: WTAC 2019 has been confirmed to take place 18–19 October at Sydney Motorsport Park. As with the previous events, WTAC will welcome local and international drivers to duke it out to claim that one perfect lap. The International Drifting Cup will also return to the weekend line-up, which typically sees a super-strong Kiwi contingent jump the ditch to compete, and organizers say that the largest outdoor car show in the country will be going down. There is no…

NIGHT SPEED DRAG WARS 8 MEREMERE DRAGWAY, MEREMERE Featuring some of New Zealand’s quickest street-legal imports and rotary-powered machines, the Night Speed Drag Wars series is one of the few events in the country in which drivers with a current license, warrant, and rego can compete in anything from their high-powered street car to their nana’s old Corolla. This season increased from six meetings to eight, three of which were on Saturday nights. With this being number eight, drivers will need to put it all on the line to bring fame to their name. Priced at $45 a pop to race, with spectators paying $15, gates will open at 5.30pm and racing kick-off at 6.30pm. DRIFT SOUTH ROUND 4 MIKE PERO MOTORSPORT PARK, RUAPUNA, CHRISTCHURCH The team at the Canterbury…

While this great nation of ours may have wholeheartedly embraced the metric system of measurement long, long ago, there are still a few remnants of the imperial era remaining, and you’ll find damn near all of them deeply ingrained in the age-old sport of drag racing. It’s a sport that has been around since the dawn of time, and it has always measured tyre sizes wholly in inches, power to the nearest horse, torque in foot-pounds, speed in miles per hour, and regarded the only distance that actually means two-tenths of anything as the quarter-mile. Running the strip has long stood as the ultimate test of truly quick cars, and, to this day, it remains the place where benchmarks are set for those looking to claim the glory of being…

Growing up, most girls are force-fed a selection of dolls, teddies, and pretend homewares to play with. You’ll struggle to find a bedroom that hasn’t been repainted in various tones of pink and purple, and those brightly coloured walls are almost always plastered with posters of the latest pop singer. Free time? That’s spent hosting imaginary tea parties and playing dress up. Meanwhile, the boys are outside in the mud getting dirty, trying to work out what the hell dad’s tools actually do, and hooning Hot Wheels cars around that quintessential Kiwi road rug that everyone seemed to own. That’s just how it goes — because, for some people, we’re still living in the 1950s — that is, unless your name is Claire Eveleigh. For Claire, childhood was spent roadside…

Tsukuba Circuit, Japan is the home and the heart of Time Attack racing the world over, and a place that I, like undoubtedly many of you, have wanted to visit for a lifetime. If virtual laps around the famed circuit counted for anything, I would be at a veteran level, having smashed out thousands upon thousands around the 2.04km long circuit on various gaming platforms such as Gran Turismo and Forza Motorsport. Enough was enough. After over a decade of watching other Time Attack and motorsport enthusiasts enjoy the circuit, I had to go there myself. Flights were booked, and I got in contact with a local GT-R tuning shop legend by the name of Mitsuhara Motojima, an ex–Jun Auto head mechanic from the late 1990s and early 2000s, an…

Sixty years ago, the OG Mini hit the road with a blazing 30-something stampeding British horsepower (22kW) pulsing through the front wheels. Owing to its lively chassis, people with a bit of an inkling for things with performance potential soon latched onto the idea that these wee things could go all right — with a bit of a tickle, naturally. Hell, even BMC itself started souping them up, with the help of Grand Prix engineer John Cooper, and started taking out international rallies. There’s always been a common denominator among folks running a quick Mini — they are all freaking nuts. The theory goes that the more speed you can wring out of one of these old British icons, the slightly more certifiable your state of mind. It doesn’t matter…

NAME: RIZVI AZAAD BUKSH // AGE: 28 LOCATION: AUCKLAND // OCCUPATION: BARBER NZ Performance Car: Hey, Rizvi. Sweet R35 you have there — how’d you get into modified cars? Rizvi: Hi, guys, thanks! I blame my older brother Sam for getting me into cars at a very young age. He would be playing with cars, so I would want to do the same. My first was a ’92 Honda Integra DB8 — DOHC VTEC! Perfect example with which to introduce yourself to the redline! What types of cars did you own after that? I’ve had two more Integras — one was a ’96-spec Type R. Then I had RX-8s followed by two R32 GT-Rs, and now this. They seem to come in twos. What was it about the R35 that…

ALWAYS WATCHING There’s wild stuff going on out on public roads, so don’t be left wishing you’d put a dashcam in your car when video evidence could have made all the difference! Whether it’s for simple peace of mind, security, or crucial evidence in the case of a crash, the Gator GHDVR82W dash camera records full-HD 1080p footage through a 152-degree wide angle lens. You can connect to the GHDVR82W through your smartphone, too, allowing you to access and playback recordings on the fly. A builtin G-sensor with adjustable sensitivity saves impact footage, and a seamless loop recording functionality ensures it continually records when the vehicle is driving. And with a discreet compact cylinder design, the dashcam mounts to your car’s windscreen behind the rear-view mirror without impeding the driver’s…

NAME: TYSON BROWN // AGE: 21 LOCATION: LEVIN // OCCUPATION: DESIGN ENGINEER NZ Performance Car: Hi, Tyson. Tell us about your first car and how you got into modifying it. Tyson: Hey, team. When I was around the age of three, my parents bought me this book outlining all the makes and models of cars. I took it everywhere, trying to match cars in the book to those that I could see on the streets. From there, I always played car games like Need for Speed: Underground 2, and that’s where I first ‘modified’ a car. When I was old enough to drive, my first car was a 1990 Nissan 300ZX, and I put some 19-inch Advantis on it, which made it look like a monster truck. Because of how…