The buzz around Cruise for Charity 8 grows daily and we’re so excited about kick starting Australia’s biggest charity car show that we wanted to make sure no one missed the dates. Pull out the diaries and pen in the following dates:

NSW - 20 August
QLD - 4 September
SA - 18 September
VIC - 2 October
WA - 16 October
TAS - 30 October

The Official Home of Cruise for Charity is the Street Commodores forum, and to make your lives easier we’ve gone about making each state a hyperlink which will take you directly to that state’s dedicated section on the forum. Here you’ll find times, locations and all the info you need to make your Cruise for Charity experience a successful one.

The events are also on Facebook. Find them through the official Street Commodores Facebook page or by searching for ‘Street Commodores Magazine’s Cruise for Charity 8’ and then selecting your state.

See you there!

We spoke with cover car owner and Commodore celebrity Eddy Tassone about his amazing yellow Coupe on the cover of Issue 182, as well as upcoming projects and Commodores in general. Get the extra info we couldn’t fit inside the article here:

Current PB?
“It’s gone 9.0sec@153mph with 100hp [of nitrous]”

What made you got N/A this time around?
“Most people can’t afford the big dollar twin turbo kit. Most people want aspirated engines. I love them - I wanted some fun N/A, and you can’t beat cubes!”

Why the ETP heads?
“The amount of power they can make. We’ve got new Moses heads sitting here, too”

You turn it to 9,000rpm?
“Even past that! I had haps of dramas when we started doing that! The new engine is dry sump so it’s not that bad but the yellow car has a wet sump with a Moroso accumulator. We’ve tried everything to make the engines live”

Where to from here with it?
“This is just my fun car now! We’ll race it on Wednesday nights and have some fun. I’ve got new cars to play with on the street but this is just no stress”

The new car that Eddy alludes to is the black beast below. Sporting a naturally aspirated 488ci EFI LSx-based motor, the car shot straight into the 8s with an 8.7sec on it’s licensing pass, which it promptly smashed down to an 8.44sec PB.

We’ll be looking to bring you more on this amazing car in an upcoming issue of Street Commodores Magazine.

One of the greatest events on the Sydney calendar is returning in 2011 and we don’t want you to miss out on the Street Machine Nationals!

Returning to the calendar last year at Rosehill Racecourse, 2011 will see the event move to Eastern Creek where it will join with the APSA to combine the country’s best show cars, toughest skid cars and now, the fastest race cars in an all-singing, all-dancing, high-octane celebration of the modified car scene!

Befriend them on Facebook or visit www.streetmachinenationals.com.au for more details. We’ll see you there!

It’s a sad fact of life, but it’s not often enough that we see the words ‘high performance’ followed by the word ‘V6’. That’s all about to change though, as Pro Flow Fabrications in Victoria are kicking V6 performance, Alloytec performance no less, in super, mega overdrive with their downright mental turbocharged 9sec drag car project.

Borrowing many cues from Pro Turbo including the turbo positioning behind the front bar, the water to air intercooler and the dump pipe exiting stage left through the bar the car is a bloody menace to look at.

The car wreaked havoc on Melbourne drag strips many moons ago with a potent turbocharged V6 set up on an unopened, 300,000km taxi-spec bottom end which propelled the sedan into the 11s accruing it the namesake LAGSUX. It seems that notion has been thrown out the window, though.

The large frame Garrett turbo will blow through a custom W2A intercooler and into an Alloytec, of which we know little about at this stage. The sedan has been tubbed and caged though, and looks unfairly tough.

Read more about the car’s progress HERE, and in an issue of Street Commodores Magazine upon it’s completion!

Oztrack Tuning
In Issue 182 you’ll read our chat with Steve Bennet of Oztrack Tuning. Steve is a long time supporter of Street Commodores Magazine and one of the leaders in performance tuning for late model Commodore and LSx engines. Steve was one of the first to embrace remote tuning which allows him to tune vehicles without actually being in or near them – a truly innovative service which has seen him work all across Australia and even abroad.
Be sure to check out Steve’s website to see what Oztrack can do for you, www.oztracktuning.com

One of Australia's premier engineering companies, and a name long associated with high-performance parts for Commodores, Harrop Engineering are set to release yet another product to their ever-growing catalogue of tasty aftermarket bits, but it's not what you've come to expect.

Known for their brake packages, supercharger kits, stroker cranks and driveline components, Harrop are set to back this up with a distinctive forged alloy wheel.

The wheels will measure anywhere from 7.5in and 15in in width and be available in sizes from 17in right through to giant 22in hoops. Harrop claim they're perfectly suited to the Harrop brake upgrade kits, with extra caliper clearance.

For full details on these hot race-inspired wheels check out www.harrop.com.au