Innholdsfortegnelse for July 2018 i Fast Car

There’s a lot of drift cars out there, and a lot of S-body Nissans, and the crossover on that particular Venn diagram is pretty sizable. But when a car as flawlessly put together as Carl Taylor’s S13 presents itself, we can’t help but take notice. This is a machine whose entire spec list exudes such perfection, such inherent rightness, that you can imagine it taking home show trophy after show trophy until its owner’s house was creaking under the weight of silverware. But instead, this S13 has been built with performance and aesthetics on a level pegging. And given that it looks divine, you can imagine the quality of the engineering beneath… Naturally, given the ostentatious way the ever-surprising Mr Taylor lives his life, this was always bound to be…

There are few modifying scenes quite as competitive as the VAG crew. Certain touchpoints through the show calendar ensure everyone’s constantly clamouring for a fresh look to shock and amaze. You’ve got to roll into Ultimate Dubs with a new set of rims or a flash new colour, then change it all up for Wörthersee, and by the time Players rolls around at the end of the season the car will be unrecognisable from how it was just a few short months ago. For this reason, you find a lot of people battering their credit cards again and again, money seemingly no object in the pursuit of likes and shares. But for some people, it’s more personal. People like Daniel Beckwith, who have come from a household passionate about cars,…

MOMO RF SERIES, FROM £400 (EACH) MOMO UK are off to a flying start this season and with their newly-appointed British distributor Wheelwright at the reigns, it looks like they’re not shy in crowbarring the freshest designs away from the Italian market and onto our shores. That’s not the way it’s usually done either, so you’ve got to admire their gusto! First up is, not one, but a trio, of mahoosive hoops available in most core five-stud fitments. These puppies make up the new MOMO RF Series. Those two little letters, R and F, make all the difference here, because they stand for Rotatory Forged, the posh term for super-lightweight wheel pornography. Best of all, it’s not just the three sexy designs you get to choose from. Each of these…

The super-high quality Elite range of leatherette embossed car mats from the guys at Carmats4u has been taking the world by storm over the past few months. But have you ever wondered what happens after you’ve been online and designed yours? How do they get from a picture on a computer screen to the very finest mats the UK has to offer? Well, here’s how they put together the finished article… SAMPLES Because the Elite range is such a premium product, Carmats4u go to all the trouble of making up a mini sample of your design, just so you can make sure the colours match your requirements. Typically, 2-days after you place your order along with a set of vehicle-specific paper templates to ensure the correct fit on your car.…

Show versus Go: it’s the age-old trade-off. Obviously you don’t want to leave your car at its factory-standard ride height, unless you’re some kind of square. But getting that booty closer to the ground goes deeper than just shoving a set of cut springs in there. Are you lowering for jaw-dropping looks, or to make it unbeatable on the track and country lanes? Do you want form or function? Or can you actually have both? Fitment Stance, fitment, take your pick – these are terms referring to the act of getting your car sitting just right, with the wheel-to-arch interface carefully considered. There are a number of ways to go about this; aggressive fitment sees wide wheels on stretched tyres working with negative camber to get the rim as close…

For all those not acquainted with the famous MIMMs Honda Day, it started way back in 2009 – with a small meet at South Mimms Services at the junction of the A1M and M25. Obviously it didn’t stay small for long. Nowadays most of us don’t even have to brave the miles of stationary traffic that is the London Orbital to find it. In fact, over the next few years, this gathering of all things Honda steadily outgrew its spiritual home and has gone on to become one of the most popular Japanese car events throughout the whole of our little island. Think of it as a travelling version of the original. Although the name well and truly stuck, for the last half-decade it’s not only hit a multitude of…

Over the years, Ford of Australia has offered a medley of unique performance models for discerning local hooners. From the late 1960s, Ford of Australia produced a run of stunning Falcon saloons and coupes all rocking a 5.8-litre V8. Styling was nuts, with shaker hoods, big wings and NACA ducts, while the fastest models produced over 300bhp. Decades later, Ford revived the fast Falcon range with the six-cylinder XR6 and V8-powered XR8 models. Both nameplates survived over several generations, producing as much as 460bhp, and they all look stunning. In the mid noughties, Aussie Ford also produced two models you might recognise: the Fiesta XR4 and Focus XR5. Named to fit in with the fast Falcons, we’d call them the Mark 6 Fiesta ST and Mark 2 Focus ST respectively.…

Yep, you got it. All I have been doing is playing with batteries! After a few hours of looking at how to make them fit, I finally came up with a way to get all of them within the engine bay. So I welded the lower frame together and started on building a metal box around the batteries. Now to meet EU guidelines (boring!). Any battery box must be sealed and require tools to gain access to any high voltage connections. A big metal box should solve that. So it’s time to build a removable lid to finish it all off. Next up, wiring. Luckily I had help in the form of Tippers. Everyone needs a Tippers. He has spent hours stripping out the old wiring loom and removing everything…

Out There Wörthersee: We hit Austria for some dope VAG action Mod Nats: The UK’s craziest show weekender is here Plus Product tests, Posters, Fast Projects, and loads more Feature Cars Epic EP3 Civic 600BHP 1 Series Boosted Infiniti G37 Fiesty Fiesta Top 10… 300+bhp cars for under 5k Before & After We head to Meguiar’s and transform the world’s dirtiest Evo VIII. Bumper 132-page Issue TRAX Donington Show Guide #397 On Sale Friday 22 June…

Usually, if you spot one or two supercars at a car meet, you’re doing well. So imagine over 300 of them! That’s what happened recently when we joined Akrapovic UK at Bruntingthorpe Proving Ground, as Supercar Driver gathered an epic line-up of cars – £75 million quid’s worth in fact! The Secret Supercar Meet, Powered by Michelin, is the season-opener for Supercar Driver. It gives members the opportunity to get together after the cold winter months and look forward to a busy summer of events. Although the rain did its best to dampen spirits, by 10am, the airfield was beginning to fill up as more and more members arrived. The scale of this event is seriously impressive, with pretty much every make and model of high-end performance car, supercar and…

Supercar rims Autostrada wheels are a real connoisseur’s choice. The Modena design you see here on Daniel’s Golf has been out of production for some time, so it’s not like you can just stroll into Halfords and order a set. Everyone wants Autostradas, and on the rare occasions a set does come up for sale on the second-hand market it invariably results in a feeding frenzy in the wheel whore shark pool. The Modena design is a loving tribute to the wheels you’d find on the Ferrari F40, and they give the Golf a flavour of Italian style. Daniel bought them from a mate. As you can imagine he’s got no plans to let them go! They measure 8.75x17 inches up front and a 9.75x17 inches out back, and they…

It’s funny how certain models of cars can develop a very particular image for themselves as they age. Take the much-loved EP3-shape Honda Civic Type R as a prime example: a hot hatch that’s developed into THE go-to affordable track toy for those who can’t quite stretch to a Porsche GT3 but still want reliable, revvy thrills as they blast around their favourite race track. And while these little pocket rockets are undoubtedly very well suited to living a life of being thrashed around a circuit, does this mean we should frown upon those who decide to take a slightly different route with them? Chesterfield-based fabricator Craig here certainly doesn’t think so. Having loved the way these Civics look for many years and recently on the hunt for his next…

Queensland, Australia is a peaceful place. Situated next to the Great Barrier Reef, it’s big, it’s rural and it’s sunny – more often than it’s not. Park Ridge, a sparsely populated suburb in the south east of the state, is quieter still, With barely 2500 people spread over six square miles. But there’s a storm brewing. A storm with 430.6 horsepower… at the wheels… on low boost. Loud, lairy and more than a little scary, welcome to the world of Ant Rogers and his Ford Focus XR5 Turbo. Ant has been lusting after the post-facelift XR5 – that’s an ST to you and me – ever since the model was launched. But it would take a while to find the funds. In the years before the Focus arrived, Ant focused…

Nope, we’re not going to offer you half the trade price for your car like those websites, instead we want to give you the chance of being featured in the best modified car mag on the planet! So if you own a cool as a cucumber car and think it’s worthy of the pages of Fast Car, then we’d love to see it. Please send a selection of good quality images, and a spec to jules.truss@kelseymedia.co.uk and use ‘Feature Car’ in the subject. If we like it, we’ll get back to you to arrange a photoshoot. Simples.…

Yup, that’s right folks my E92 is still available. Surely there must be someone out there who wants to make me an offer? I almost swapped it a couple of weeks back for a B7 Audi RS4, but the owner turned out to be a dreamer, and to be honest, after test driving his remapped ‘480bhp’ RS4 it was a lucky escape. It was so bloody slow compared to my 335i – and no, I’m not joking. It’s now completely apparent why Audi boosted their latest RS4. So what’s next? Well next has already kinda happened. You see I needed a sensible daily to get me up and down the country, which has room for my dog, lunch and a camera. So I bought another BMW. But this time E91…

The Audi S8 will always be cool. That’s just a fact. Taking an oversized luxury saloon and shoving in an unnecessarily large amount of horsepower is a recipe for success. Look at the first-gen S8 in the movie Ronin. It scampered around like a startled gazelle with an Exocet missile up its backside. Of course, shoving an unnecessarily large amount of horsepower into an oversized luxury saloon is also a recipe for crap residuals, which is very good news for people like us. Let the rich fat cats pay top dollar for these insane cars. We’ll happily enjoy the fruits of their crushing depreciation. Consider the second-gen S8. Among its various engine options, you could spec a rumbling 6.0-litre W12 or, even better, a 5.2-litre V10. Why is the V10…

“How was your holiday?” “I haven’t been on holiday – I’ve been to Japfest!” That’s right people, Japfest was a scorcher and we’re not just talking about the weather. The cars, the action and the atmosphere were all lit. Apparently it was the hottest May Day bank holiday weekend on record and Midge’s shiny red bonce could certainly vouch for that! Temperatures reached 28.7›C and peaked at over 35.3›C in Glenda’s pants – he really does love a well-modified Jap car. But enough about the weather. That wasn’t what made Japfest 2018 so damn good. It was the combination of all this stuff… STAND Ahem. We’re not being biased here... Without doubt the best collection of Japanese metal on display could be found on the Fast Car stand. We had…

Silverline Wheel Nut Socket Set, £15 Now you’ve bought yourself those perfect hoops, you don’t want to go whacking them on with any manky old wheel-brace, do you? Of course not. You’ll be wanting to invest in some proper nylon-sleeved, deep impact sockets to prevent any damage to the lug holes. Well, these professional-style colour-coded, hardened, tempered and anodised half-inch sockets come in all the usual wheel nut/bolt sizes (17, 19 and 21mm) and at the bargain price of 15 nicker. In fact, for that sort of money, they’re something of a no brainier. You might as well spend the cash you’ve saved on a proper torque wrench to go with ’em! www.silverlinetools.com…

Everything has potential. That’s one of the undeniable constants of the modifying world. Sure, there are established ways of doing things, well-trodden paths which ensure every modern showground is bristling with Mk5 Golfs on air-ride and E46s with CSL styling. But you’ll always find unexpected treats based on cars you’d never thought could be cool. There was a Rover 75 estate on the scene a while back, slammed over WORK Seekers. It looked awesome. Someone’s buttered the mechanicals from a TT Quattro into an old Skoda 120. There’s a Xsara Picasso on hydraulics with chrome smoothies. No matter how unappealing a car may seem, it only takes one well-modified example to let you see it in a whole new light. Take the Opel Kadett E estate, for example. What we’d…

Normally you’d find these pages with the header Midge’s Turbo Beetle or Midge’s TT and have to endure all sorts of ramblings and excuses about why I haven’t finished my own cars yet. Well, this time around I’ve actually got a really good excuse. We’re gonna be a bit busy building a top notch motor that could be all yours! Now, some have already noticed a rather big, sexy Nissan in the background of my Bug pages last month… but that’s enough about my Navara D40 daily. No, there was another one there too: this rather hairy-chested, 300bhp, Japanese muscle car. Well, in a very special collaboration with the fellas over on our sister mag, Banzai, we’ll be sorting this 350Z right out with all sorts of top mods before…

The notion of a mid-engined Ferrari is commonplace today. Indeed, it’s more unusual to find Ferraris that have the motor at the front. But there was a time when this was not the case. Enzo Ferrari was famously against the idea, complaining that putting the engine behind the driver was like ‘putting the horse behind the cart’. His front-engined Formula One cars were doing fine in the 1950s (and it’s worth remembering that Enzo never really wanted to build and sell road cars anyway – they were just a necessary evil to pay for the firm’s racing endeavours). But in 1960 the 246P was tested in F1 – the firm’s first ever mid-engined racer, running a 2.4-litre Dino V6. The first mid-engined Ferrari road cars – the Dino 206 and…

MITCHELL KERR’S CLIO RS FC says : According to the proud owner and regular FC reader Mitchell Kerr, this is the very first Liquid Yellow Clio RS on bags in the UK. Which begs the question, why hasn’t someone done it before? It looks the dog’s dangleys. But the air ride suspension that tucks the 18-inch OZ Veloce alloys in the arches is only half the story. This is one very well modified little Renault. Delve inside the eye-catching Clio and you’ll see Recaro CS seats, a colour-coded cage and a classy air install. While the exterior boasts a TRC Focus ST front splitter, Maxton Designs sideskirst extensions and a raspy Scorpion exhaust. Mitchell says it would be an honour to be featured in FC. Well consider yourself honoured. The…