Innholdsfortegnelse for October 2018 i Fast Car

This is the 399th issue of Fast Car magazine, which means we celebrate the big four zero-zero next month. And to celebrate we’re putting together a special edition that will include free gifts, special features and a big jump in issue size, in fact, we’ve been planning it for months. With this in mind, I found myself subconsciously saving the better feature cars for the 400th issue, when I realised that every car we feature is awesome (that’s why we are featuring it in the first place). What I was effectively doing for the 400th issue is exactly what I aim to do every month anyway: deliver the best and most inspiring cars in the world, whether they are budget home builds or company demos. This issue is testament to…

Eibach Fiesta Mk8 Pro-Kit, £185  It seems like the Mk8 Fiesta (especially the ST) has only been on our streets for 32-seconds and Eibach have already launched these little beauties to sharpen up the handling. In fact, the little Blue Oval-badged wonder won’t even be out of warranty yet, but that’s not an issue because these hi-tensile, shot-peened steel items make the famous Pro-Kit the highest quality springs on the market. www.eibach.co.uk ESM-009R Wheels, £150 (EACH)  For want of a better phrase from the early noughties, these 16-inchers are allllll about the bling bling! Seriously, ESM describe them as ‘Phat’ on their website and everything. The truth is that no one does chromes quite like our American chums, and these retro-style rims, in all their gold-studded glory, aren’t exactly for…

STYLING: Garage Unique Street Warrior wide-bodykit – including arches, skirts, skirt extensions, rear diffuser, front splitter, bumper inserts and wing vents, Garage Unique rear spoiler, custom taillights TUNING: 1.6-litre Ti-VCT, custom Thokunart stainless exhaust system with transverse outlet, 6-speed dual-clutch Powershift CHASSIS: 8.5x17” ET15 (front) and 10x17” ET15 (rear) WORK Meister S1 wheels, 225/40 (f) and 255/40 (r) Yokohama Advan A050 tyres, 25mm front and 35mm rear spacers, custom 4-valve air-ride system INTERIOR: Bride Stradia seats, Takata harnesses, 10” touchscreen media centre, Massive Audio pre-amp, 6x Eton Power Amps, 10x Focal speakers, 15” sub THANKS: Garage Unique Thailand, Unwanted Team, and SerialOne Photography…

STYLING: Heart and Sol respray in Porsche Riviera Blue, custom smooth bumpers with smooth air scoops, short number plate recess, drag-spec splitter, custom door handles, fibreglass wide front wings, all-red taillights, quad headlights with smooth scoop for air filter, debadged grille, custom wide arches, custom pop-out rear quarter windows, carbon fibre skinned roof, one-off bonnet to showcase fully smoothed copper pearl engine bay TUNING: R30T engine (R32 block with 2.8 VR6 crank and pistons) built by TWR Auto-Tuning, cast manifold with Precision 6262 turbo, Mk5 R32 inlet, 3.5in turbo-back exhaust system with side-exit tail, battery relocated, satin black boost pipes, hidden loom, AEM water/methanol injection, Emerald K6 ECU with switchable maps, 02M Mk4 transmission POWER: 500bhp @ 14psi CHASSIS: 8x17in (front) and 10x17in (rear) RH wheels by Rusty Rims –…

Squeezing over 1000bhp from a 2.5-litre Duratec takes some doing. It helps, of course, that it’s a decent capacity five-cylinder unit, but the huge pressure on the engine means it needs to be immensely strong. The bottom end has been pinned and linered with strong ARP bolts used to hold it all together. Then you need a turbo capable of flowing the huge quantities of air needed to make 1010bhp (in this case, a BorgWarner EFR9180). Of course, it wouldn’t fit at the rear of the bay, so a custom side-mounted manifold was also required for the install. As with any big-power build, the key is in the mapping. In this case, the Syvecs standalone set-up allowed Devil Developments full control over every engine parameter – timing, knock, EGTs air/fuel…

We’ve made good progress this month and it won’t be long until we can flick the switches and get testing. But before we do, we had to get totally wired… The main thing to sort is the low voltage system, this deals with all the 12v power and relays for everything. We opted for a plastic board and chock blocks for this, it’s not pretty but it is effective. It’s the quickest and best way of testing because we can easily swap wires around. In a few months, when everything is finalised, we will solder it all in place and mount the fuses and relays on something a bit more aesthetically pleasing and long-term. While the low voltage system requires more work, we have actually finished the high voltage junction…

PLAYERS CLASSIC It’s always one of our favourite events of the year and, although you’ve already seen our report from Goodwood, here’s some top-class moving pics too. www.fastcar.co.uk/videos/players-classic-2018/ 1100HP CIVIC With a ludicrous amount of horses, all-wheel drive and the ability to do a 7-second quarter-mile, could Frustrate’s EG be one of the craziest Hondas ever conceived? Yes, yes it could. www.fastcar.co.uk/videos/1100bhp-awdhonda-civic-eg/ RETRO JAP ROLL OUT Love your old-skool Japanese stuff? Well that’s exactly what you’re getting here. Roll on the weird and the wonderful… www.fastcar.co.uk/videos/retro-japanesecar-roll-out/ LOWRIDER SHOW This one’s actually called the Stockton Lowrider Car Audio Super Show… and, if you think that’s a bit lairy, you should see the motors! https://www.fastcar.co.uk/videos/stockton-lowrider-car-audio-super-show/ KAMIKAZE GT-RS Who doesn’t love a tuned Nissan GT-R, eh? Well, the good news is that here’s…

SLIM JULES EDITOR “I guess it’s a bit like celebrating your 39th birthday. Not that I know what that’s like!” Seventeen years in publishing including a spell as a paparazzi, IMIAL Level 2 Mechanic, Poppadom Eating World Championship runner-up, Race National B Licence holder. jules.truss@kelseymedia.co.uk MIDGE CONTRIBUTING EDITOR “You never celebrated my 39th birthday? In fact, you didn’t even get me a card.” Uber-short serial Gumballer and monster truck driver, IMIAL Level 2 Mechanic, built 12 feature cars, five cover cars, five rally cars, has a degree in pottery and an addiction to Red Bull. james.burr@kelseymedia.co.uk INITIAL G ART EDITOR “39? Ooh to be carefree and young again. You lot don’t know you’re born!” Thirty years of design experience, champion archer and currently working on proving inflationary cosmology propagation, through…

Mechanix Wear Gloves, From £14 Ever slipped and spanked your knuckles when working on your car? Hurts like a mother doesn’t it? Second only to a kick in the plums in fact, and that’s why a proper set of mechanic’s gloves are an absolute essential. Now, one of the most famous names in manicure-savers is US firm Mechanix Wear, who have been supplying gloves to garages, industrial sites and even the US Special Forces for years now. Basically, they’re the toughest gloves out there, the best of the best (sir yes sir) and, rather handily for us, they’ve just launched a fine selection here in the UK through Oldhall Performance. Ranging from their most famous product (The Original) and the hardcore M-Pact items shown here, right through to their new…

GMC 1800W PRESSURE WASHER It’s fair to say that we love a pressure washer here at FC; we’ve tested absolutely bags of them over the past few years. Tiny compact items, top-of-the-range home-use items, even battery powered portables. It’s safe to say that we’re all experts by now, so why are we putting yet another in these pages? What makes this one different? Well, Australian firm GMC say their new compact washer is the closest you can get to an industrial unit without going for petrol power – or forking out an industrial-sized wedge of cash. If that’s not worth a look, then we don’t know what is… PRICE: £173 (BEST PRICE) www.gmctools.com In the box… What’s immediately obvious is that the design of this GMC item is a little…

STYLING: Lamborghini yellow, custom Heart and Sol roof, Hella quads with custom intakes, Hella all-grey taillights, USDM bumpers with vortex air intakes, arch extensions, ABT rep sideskirts, polycarbonate windows, frenched tailgate, custom door handles, carbon fibre bonnet, engine bay painted Porsche Fluorescent Yellow TUNING: 2.8-litre 24v VR6, fully forged, cast manifold with Precision 6266 turbo, twin wastegates, short-runner inlet, 3.5in turbo-back exhaust with side-exit tail, AEM water/methanol injection, Emerald K6 ECU with switchable maps, 02M Mk4 transmission POWER: 700bhp @ 27psi CHASSIS: 8x17in 3-piece splits by Rusty Rims – centres in dark red with gold flakes, gold hardware, 195/40 Falken tyres, GAZ Gold coilovers, Syncro transplant, Audi R8 front calipers with R32 discs, twin brake setup at rear – Porsche 4-pots with Phaeton discs and Mk4 R32 calipers INTERIOR: Stripped,…

STYLING Full respray in Audi Ipanema Brown; factory third-gen VVTi body kit; custom smoothed arch extensions all-round (1in wider fronts and 2.5in wider rears); custom front lip; carbon fibre roof spoiler; Seibon carbon fibre bonnet; single side-exit exhaust outlet conversion. TUNING 2.5-litre 1JZ-GTE straight-six engine; fully forged internals (comprising Brian Crower pistons, ARP head bolts and head gaskets); reworked cylinder head (comprising Brian Crower valves and springs, HKS 285 camshafts, HKS adjustable pulleys and ARP head gasket); Owen Developments 35/82 HTA 360-degree roller bearing turbocharger; custom Walton Fabrication’s 6-branch manifold; TiAL 50mm external wastegate and screamer pipe; GReddy 100mm-core front-mount intercooler; custom 4in air intake with K&N cone air filter; 100mm throttle body; custom inlet manifold; Bosch 740cc fuel injectors; Audi R8 coil packs; alloy radiator; custom EMP Performance mandrel-bent…

Here’s your chance to show off both your ride and your photography skills in the pages of FC. To enter your car just open a fresh new email, put ‘Readers’ Rides Submission’ in the subject line and send us a few pics of the best bits (larger than 1MB with no ghosting or logos, and you must have the photographer’s permission) along with a short spec and a paragraph telling us why your motor deserves to adorn these hallowed pages. Pop the whole lot over to jules.truss@kelseymedia.co.uk and we’ll do the rest.…

In this very issue 9 years and 117 issues ago… • Waseem’s ‘sweet like chocolate’ Clio was all about being Super Fly and splashing the cash. • There were scantily-clad girls at the Performance Vauxhall show. No really, there were. • Air-ride was a rare and beautiful thing back then. Paul’s amazing Jetta was one of the very first we ever featured. • A Phase 1 Saxo? In FC? Too right there was, and this one was defining the Nu Rat scene in ‘09. • DJ Robin’s red oxide Fiesta is still one of our Midge’s favourite features of all time. Super Fresh. • The Gumball Rally may be celebrating its 20th anniversary this month but we featured Max Cooper’s mental XJ220 in this very issue all those years ago.…

STYLING: Datsun Sunny pickup; 09racing Hakotora kit (full front-end conversion), rear arch flares, relocated wing mirrors, Raptor Tough bed paint and Pro-Net cargo net TUNING: 1.2-litre A12 four-cylinder, four-speed manual CHASSIS: 9x14in AutoStar Kanji wheels, Air Lift suspension with 3P management, custom front struts; tri-linked rear axle INTERIOR: Cobra Nogaro seats with twisted Porsche ‘Pasha’ centres; Momo/Illest steering wheel, Kenwood KDC-W707 headunit, custom carbon fibre doorcards, flocked dash THANKS: The Install Company, Reflex Auto Design – www.reflexautodesign.com, Air Lift Performance – www.airliftperformance.com, Rare Rims – www.rarerims.co.uk, Cobra Seats – www.cobraseats.com, Kenwood – www.kenwood-electronics.co.uk, Raptor Coatings – www.raptorcoatings.com and Banbury Flocking – www.banburyflockingservices.com…

STYLING Full body resprayed in a one-off custom Oak Green, custom wide arches built to fit around the wheels and smoothed into the body, smoothed front bumper, smoothed boot lid and door strips, wind deflectors, rear wiper delete CHASSIS BBS RS 3-piece split rims painted in a custom pearl cream, 17x9.5in and 17x11.5in black chrome spilt rim bolts, custom V2 air suspension INTERIOR Roll cage painted in a custom pearl cream, boot build to go with the air set up with a 4 and 5 gallon tank painted in a custom pearl cream, Sparco R33 seats, black 4-point Luke harnesses, custom boost/AFR gauge holder in the dash, iPad built into dash, pearl cream grip Royal steering wheel with a custom cruise control plate, custom door cards trimmed in black leather…

Kicker Bullfrog Speakers, From £199 Clearly what Kicker have done here is taken their knowledge and skill in creating the sort of car audio that makes your nuts clap together like a Newton’s cradle desk-toy thingy, and crammed it all into a selection of three super-hardcore Bluetooth speakers. These tough new items are totally dropproof, dirtproof and waterproof, you can even float ‘em in the pool on holiday, or on the lake when you’re fishing… because, apparently, some people enjoy that sort of thing. Anyway, what’s really clever here is that you can link two Bullfrogs together for a double bass kick, or fiddle around with an FM tuner and a 5-band graphic EQ, via the free Kicker Connect app. There’s also a built-in power bank to juice up your…

“It feels like you’ve just had a bomb go off in the boot. The boost just keeps on building; it’s like it’s never going to stop” Man has always had a desire to be the first to do things. Whether it’s landing on the moon, flying around the world or simply getting to the bar on a busy Friday night, being first matters. It’s in our DNA (probably hard-wired from the days when we lived in caves). So in the Ford world, it is really no surprise that there’s an innate desire to be the first: the first to own the latest RS model, the first to fit a new set of wheels, the first to have a 1000bhp Focus RS. But Grant Butler didn’t set out to achieve a…

ENGINE 2.5-litre Duratec, BorgWarner EFR9180 on a V-band, Turbosmart 45mm wastegate, Stage 3 cams, ported, polished big-valve head, pinned, linered, wire ringed & decked block, K1 I-beam rods, Weisco pistons, Cosworth head gasket, custom ‘side-winder’ exhaust manifold, Airtec Stage 3 intercooler with custom big boost pipes, Airtec remote oil cooler, Syvecs ECU With Toucan touch screen and fuel flex, custom manifold back exhaust with custom 5.5in media blasted tips, Anembo billet inlet plenum, 2000cc Injector Dynamics injectors customised to car, Samco boost hoses, Devil Developments triple fuel pump system with swirl tank, water meth spray kit, uprated NGK spark plugs, ceramic coating and lava wrap to manifold and bonnet, uprated coil packs, Hard Race engine mounts POWER 1010bhp (flywheel) 918bhp (hubs) at 2.8bar on E85, 870lb.ft torque TRANSMISSION Lightened flywheel,…

So far, the gearbox, diff and engine oils have been changed to premium Redline fluids, we’ve steam-cleaned just about everything humanly possible to steam clean and uprgraded the brakes to a rather nice set of EBC performance discs and pads. To be fair, I think there’s not a true petrolhead on the planet who wouldn’t be damn happy to drive home in this 350Z already… but there’s a long way to go before it’ll be ready to give away at TRAX. So, with that in mind, this month I thought I’d get on with one of the most important, if not THE most important, mods on the whole car. I’m talking, of course – suspension. Now, I’m not saying the 350Z is clown-car high as standard, but it’s certainly getting…

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