Time Attacker: Pro Stock Racing Skyline Gt-r
The time attack scene in Japan is just about to begin. As the summer’s scorching temperatures begin to fall, as hazy humidity gives way to crispy blue skies, race tracks begin to populate with a...
View ArticleThe Strip Club… Project Volvo Wagon
1980s Week on Speedhunters has been a stark reminder about one of my own personal cars from that era. When I look at my 1989 Volvo 245 estate, I wonder what it could have been by now if I’d have...
View ArticleTrd Griffon Concept: The Ultimate Tuned Eight-six
Pop quiz: what do you get when you take one of the world’s largest car company’s racing R&D wing, give them unlimited resources and cut them loose to improve the hottest compact car in the world...
View ArticleTakata Equipped: Project Gt-r’s New Belts
I have always wanted proper racing harnesses. In the few instances that I’ve taken my GT-R out on track one of the things that I was always concerned about, obvious safety aside, was sliding all over...
View ArticleFf Supremacy: 5zigen Civic Type-r
Front wheel drive is, wrong wheel drive. Bold statement, but technically speaking it just doesn’t make any sense. Why would you want to subject the front wheels of a car to so much abuse? They’re...
View ArticleWelcome To The Fifth Dimension: 5zigen Hq
After checking out the 5Zigen time attack FD2 last week during our special “FF” theme, I thought it would be interesting to take a little tour of their main factory and HQ in Osaka. 5Zigen – pronounced...
View ArticleThe Norwegian’s Hammer, Unveiled
Can you believe it’s already April again? While I associate April first with my Speedhunters anniversary, for drift fans it means something much more exciting – the official start to the Formula D...
View ArticleTAKATA Answers Your Questions
A few months back we asked you to post up your questions about harnesses, seats and seatbelts for the experts at TAKATA Racing to answer. Afterwards, we pooled together the questions and asked Tom...
View ArticleThe Stuff GT-R Dreams Are Made Of
‘If you had to choose one car to own, what would it be?’ I get asked this question a lot, and despite having had the opportunity to drive some pretty amazing sports cars over the years, I can’t help...
View ArticleYou Decide: LaSupra Is Asking…
Hi all you Speedhunters! It’s been a long time since I wrote anything for you, and I’m sorry for that. This year has been the most hectic year I have ever had, and as you probably know, my season has...
View ArticleWant To Harness The Takata Knowledge?
There’s definitely some merit to the phrase ‘it’s not what you know, but who you know’, so it’s a good job that we’ve got some pretty knowledgable partners here at Speedhunters! As part of the Ask The...
View ArticleYou Know MADBUL And BADBUL…Now Meet RADBUL
When my phone rings and the screen reads ‘Mad Mike Whiddett calling’, Speedhunters’ own always seems to be bearing the sort of news that I really want to hear about. Plans for an epic drift session on...
View ArticleYour Selected Euros Are Here
As Mike, Keith, Rod, Elizabeth, Larry… in fact, most of the team were in Long Beach for the opening round of the 2014 Formula Drift season and the inaugural Offset Kings car show this past weekend, I...
View ArticleMADBUL Meets Rocket Bunny
As far drift cars go, Mad Mike Whiddett’s FD3S RX-7 is right up there with the other icons of the Japanese-born motorsport. It’s been that way since 2008 when the Kiwi driver reinvented the Mazda as...
View ArticleRADBUL: Mad Mike’s New Chassis Takes Shape
The FD3S Mazda RX-7 better known as MADBUL gave our servers a bit of shake-up when we revealed its Gen 6 Rocket Bunny re-imagination at the end of last month. It’s not hard to understand why that...
View ArticleOur Scion Tuner Challenge FR-S: 12 Things You Should Know…
The cars are done and sat in the Scion booth at the SEMA Show, but I’m just now recovered enough to sort through the thousands of photos I took of our MAXIMUM ATTACK Scion Tuner Challenge build....
View ArticleUnfinished Business: Where Did I Go So Wrong?
Long term projects invariably don’t start out that way, and in my case what was meant to be a reliable daily driver has turned in to a noisy, uncomfortable, unreliable and often frustrating exercise....
View ArticleReinventing The DC2 Integra Type R
If there’s one thing that pushes people to do extraordinary things, it’s passion. And I guess you can say that passion is very much behind Hurtling, a new brand that the guys at Varis launched this...
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