NZPC #265

675 K W TOYOTA- S WA PPE D R3 4? !

BAGGED TOYOTA STOUT

TOTOTA 86

ENGINE SWAP GUIDE

BOOSTED SR

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KE20 CHACHACHA

AUTO FIESTA

WTAC

CHALLENGE

CELEBRATING

KIWI

INNOVATORS

HIROSHIMA DEATH SCREAMER

13B COROLLA

HYPO

DC2

MARTINI

INTEGRA

RALLYLEGEND 2018

$10.99 INCL. GST

JAN. 2019

265 ISSUE

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HADOUKEN 675KW, BUT IT AIN’T NO RB …

RUNNING ALL NIGHT

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CIRCUIT-SLAYING DC2 INTEGRA

CHASING SPEED AT NIGHT SPEED DRAG WARS

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BAGGED BARN FIND TOYOTA

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TOYOTA 86 ENGINE-CONVERSION GUIDE

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DRIVEN BY DESIRE

RALLYLEGEND 2018 CELEBRATES MARTINI RACING

WITH THE BONES OF A VICIOUS STREET FIGHTER, THIS ONCEHALF-FINISHED PROJECT WAS THE PERFECT BLANK CANVAS ON WHICH ROB COOPER COULD REALIZE HIS SKYLINE DREAMS, AND IT PACKS A 675KW SPECIAL ATTACK

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1998 NISSAN SKYLINE (R34)

WORDS: JADEN MARTIN PHOTOS: LESLIE LEVENDAL

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1998 HONDA INTEGRA TYPE R (DC2)

A 98-SPEC INTEGRA TYPE R THAT EMBODIES ITS OWNER’S UNRELENTING PURSUIT OF SPEED, SHEDDING GRAMS IN ORDER TO SHAVE PRECIOUS MILLISECONDS WITHOUT THE NEED TO GENERATE EXCESSIVE POWER

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WORDS: JADEN MARTIN PHOTOS: MAVEEK BHAI

here’s a very thin, dangerous line when it comes to dancing with the devil that is lap times — not in the sense that there’s a risk to your physical well-being out there on hallowed tarmac, but for the unmeasurable chances of finding yourself miles too deep into a car that you never quite intended to build. Chasing those crucial milliseconds becomes an addiction like you’ve never known; soon, you’re stripping every non-essential fibre from the engine bay, swapping out factory panels for fibreglass and

carbon goodness, the factory suspension components are all but a distant memory, and the cabin is so empty that you’ve forgotten what it was once like to be able to hear your own thoughts. Before you know it, what was once a simple road-goer, destined for the odd track day, is now a full-blown circuit slayer with a house deposit pumped into it. The mere handful who manage to see one of these builds through, punch out the times they so desperately desire, and still walk away to tell the tale are truly a rare breed.

WORDS: JADEN MARTIN PHOTOS: RYAN VAN PELT, NIC BALL

OVERFLOWING CAR PARKS AND ONE HELL OF A PACKED-OUT STREET AT THE CHACHACHA AUTO FIESTA!

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very single one of you reading these pages should be well versed in the classic Kiwi car-park meet-up. It’s an automotive concept as old as time, and one that we all no doubt have fond memories of from younger years. Who doesn’t want to show off the object that occupies their mind every waking minute of the day? These meet-ups are solid excuses to dust off the crud from disuse and actually enjoy the cars that we’ve built. Those in the North Island are lucky to see plenty of these organized, no-nonsense type of gatherings, but the team at Christchurch-based car club ChaChaCha felt that their local was lacking, which is why they created an event last year to fill the gap (covered in Issue No. 253). While that event was only ever meant to be a simple affair — a few mates hanging out at a local cafe — what eventuated, the newly renamed Auto Fiesta, was something else altogether and has become an annual thing.

Hosted once again at Oscars Alley cafe, an already established car-guys spot due to the offering of the everdelicious Boss Coffee, parking space became a hot commodity well before the allocated 1pm start time. The entire car park outside Oscars was rammed, and cars had spilled over into the Tyre General offering and overran

Tom Acott made the journey down from Wellington with his champagne-poppin’ MZ11 Soarer. It packs a 7M/6M hybrid that uses a stout-forged bottom end with a built 5M head and a XS Power T66 turbo hanging off the side

WHEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO REVISIT AN OLD CHASSIS-OF-CHOICE PRESENTED ITSELF TO BRIAN COX, HE WASN’T ABOUT TO SQUANDER WHAT HIS 16-YEAR-OLD SELF ONCE HAD

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WORDS: MARCUS GIBSON PHOTOS: AARON MAI

1973 TOYOTA COROLLA (KE20)

SECOND A CHANCE ROLLER

s teenagers with petrol running through your veins, often your dreams and your reality sit firmly at opposite ends of the custom car scale. What you’ve seen in magazines, on the internet, or in person at shows is often beyond your skills and/or budget. Try as you might, more often than not, dreams of parking a highly modified machine in the school car park often go unfulfilled. This tends to leave many with a sense of unfinished business, and, if they are lucky enough to still own that car later in life, when the skills and means are there, it is then that the car can be lavished with the type of attention that your teenage self fantasized about. But, if you’re anything like Brian Cox, who let his KE20 go at the age of 16, those unanswered dreams may have manifested into a slight obsession to see them through, albeit that the high school car park has been swapped for the car show or race track.

So, when the opportunity presented itself to pander to those youthful dreams, Brian wasn’t about to let the chance of revisiting a KE20 slide by. Originally built on the sunnier side of the Tasman by a staff member of Mazfix, before being imported by a friend of Brian’s, the basis for the build, including the S-chassis running gear and the Ford Focus Electric Orange paintwork, had been handled to an exceptional standard before it had boarded the boat. It was the repower that initially struck a chord with Brian, who had long wished that he’d repowered the one that got away with something late model(ish). He was so sold on the idea of having a KE back in his shed that, before the deal was finalized, he’d already begun purchasing parts.

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