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Buying dirt cheap cars off pages like Marketplace or Gumtree to build into project cars is a time-honoured tradition for many of us with undiagnosed problems. The challenge of buying a cool car for $1000, or turning a $1000 car into a cool ride, is a strong one we all feel the tang of time time to time.   While the siren song of Marketplace and the allure of dropping a mere thousand-bones onto some biohazard nugget is so strong it seems tied to our DNA, there are some stark realities you need to confront if you want to come wading...

This week we give you the secret to making power in any engine.

Our best tips for selling a car quickly and easily, for the best price you can.

Modding cars and turning them into cool, fast pieces of stress relief can be a tumultuous experience. The joy of completing an engine swap, or bringing a long-forgotten car back from the dead, can soon be shattered by soaring temperature gauges or the dreaded rod knock.  Having spent 25 years buying, building, driving, wrecking, and blowing up cars (good lord, I am old), here are some of the key ways to avoid blowing your engine up like a goose (ie: don't do what I did).   Health Check When you get a new project, or you pluck it's new heart from...

If you've been watching the build of our sleeper Hilux you'll have seen us throw the old single-cam carb-fed NA four-cylinder in the bin, in favour of a turbocharged 2.7-litre DOHC 2TR four-cylinder from a modern Toyota commercial vehicle. People have been impressed with the power this pretty simple engine has made (SEE THE VIDEO HERE) and this is partly due to how modern engines are designed.  So, why do modern engines seem to make power much easier than older engines? There are several reasons for this, but it mostly comes back to engines being far more efficient, and better...