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[23 Jul 2010 | No Comment | ]
Killarney MSA Drags & Gymkhana + Soundoff – 25th July 2010 Killarney Cape Town

Denis Geyer in his Rotary powered Mazda RX7 as well as a 323 Turbo Rotary. His vehicle carrier will be joined by the likes of Ivan Cotze (Ford Escort Cosworth Turbo), a 600kw Ford Escort powered by a Turbo Toyota motor & brothers Gert & Coert Pieterse (Turbo / Nitro Nissan Champ bakkie). These 6 cars coming from far up country will be a very interesting addition to the day…..

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[15 Jul 2010 | No Comment | ]
Busy weekend a head – Weekend events

This weekend’s event update seems to quite a busy one. We have sound competitions track days and drifting events, it looks like this weekend is going to be a busy one.
If you are in there area’s drop by and support your local guys.
We have some super cool events going down here in Cape Town, lets kick it off with some good old street to strip battles.

Street2Strip – The battle continues

This coming Friday at Killarney will be host another Street2Strip drag racing event from 7pm till 11.00pm. The event …

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[13 Jul 2010 | No Comment | ]
Streetcar open track day – Killarney

We are so excited, it’s that time of the month again and Killarney is hosting its monthly Streetcar open track day. If you have never attended one of these before, we suggest you take your car down there this Sunday and take part in this awesome experience. In all honesty participating in an open Track day is most probably the best bit of driving experience you could ever have. Bring your toys to the track and have some good clean racing fun also bring your friends and family along, you …

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[5 Jul 2010 | One Comment | ]
Special edition Fiat 500 Abarth – Pogea Racing

Pogea Racing have released an amazing upgrade package for the special edition Fiat 500 Abarth 595 Ferrari that includes both performance and styling.
The German tuning company Pogea Racing believes that there’s something very wrong about with having a hot hatch carrying the Ferrari name and that’s powered by an engine producing only 165 horses . So the tuner grabbed hold of the Fiat and decided to do something about this problem.
The car in question is the extremely rare Fiat 500 Abarth Ferrari Dealers Edition. Pogea Racing first gave attention to …

Events, Gymkhana, Modified Cars »

[3 Jul 2010 | 3 Comments | ]
Gymkhana event Cape Town – Fairbridge Mall Gymkhana

4th Gymkhana at Brakenfell shopping centre
According to WBMK, there will apparently be a Gymkhana day being held on the 17th of July 2010 at the Brakenfell shopping centre.
Entries for the 4th Fairbridge Mall Gymkhana in Brackenfell are open. Please note that times will be similar to the 1st Cape Gate Gymkhana as it is still winter and the days are fairly short. This will be the fourth event held at the Fairbridge Mall venue and should once again proved a platform for an amazing gymkhana event in Cape …

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[2 Jul 2010 | 2 Comments | ]
Events in South Africa this weekend

Howzit guys and girls, if you don’t already know about these events going down in South Africa, we suggest you have a look!
There is an amazing day of action packed drifting and shows planned at the Rock Raceway and the Zoopedup “Battle of The Club’s Dyno Day for all you guys up in the Johannesburg area and for use guys down in the Cape, we have the Opel Club of Cape Towns: Fan-Park Hookup and a line up of WPMC Club drags and Day street2strip.
WINTER ROCK MANIA RACING SPECIAL @ …

Headline, Modification Tips, Modified Cars »

[1 Jul 2010 | 2 Comments | ]
Induction kit components – Cone filter setup

Induction kits seem to be the 1st thing guys start with when modifying their car’s engine. It is also the cheapest of engine modification and the induction kit gives your engine a more of a “grunt” sound when accelerating hard.
Of late, we have noticed the increase in inquiries about cone filter applications and cold air inductions setups. For that exact reason we have dedicated this article to the induction kit components.
1st you need to ask yourself why you want to change your air intake setup?
There are many reasons people change …

Drifting, Modified Cars »

[29 Jun 2010 | 2 Comments | ]
Spinning Rules – Spinning explained

Spinning can be dangerous, but just like any other motorsports there are rules and regulations for a reason. Here you more information about how the rules and regulations work.
Definitions
Spinning – using the engine’s power and revs to create a wheel spin and smoking tyres while the vehicle is in motion.
Tyre Bounce – spinning as near as possible to the tyre barriers without touching in a circular motion known as a doughnut
Doughnut – vehicle spins in a circular motion making a revolution with back wheels spinning while the front wheels completing …