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The warmer weather is back once again and that has also brought with it the return of the popular Full Throttle Friday meets at Sydney Dragway. This weeks meet was unfortunitly a bit of a fizzer with only a small amount of racers turning up.

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A selection of images from the 5/3/11 Full Throttle Friday meet at Sydney Dragway is now online here in the Gallery section.

The night was action-packed, with a few new cars making their debuts that really got people talking, as well as a  handful of cars coming over from the Powercruise event at the neighboring Easter Creek Raceway. 

The Hyundai Genesis sedan R-Spec is giving the Hyundai brand some big brass ones.

Via Jalopnik

With a bored-out version of the company's 4.6-liter V8, the R-Spec's set to compete with its larger-engined rivals like the Mercedes-Benz E550 and Infiniti M56.

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We are always on the lookout for cool and quirky cars when we are out and about and we happened to come across this tough-sounding FX Holden as it rolled into the staging lanes at a Sydney Dragway Full Throttle Friday meet in November.  Upon closer inspection we couldn't help but notice two sizable turbos visible from under the hood-line, so after watching it crawl off the line before coming to life and sling shotting down the strip for a low 10, we headed into the pits to take a closer look at this old beast.

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Unfortunately due to ongoing rain the annual Cops & Community car show that was to be held yesterday 24/10 at Kembla Grange racecourse just south of Sydney has had to be posponed until the 28th November.

With an excess on 150 cars and bikes entered for the event it is sure to be an event not to be missed. Lets just hope mother nature gives the guys some blue skys this time around. 

Jason's images from Full Throttle Friday are up in the galleries.

Further information on the above PSIDUP Cortina is on its way!

As I noted in a previous post, our colleagues over at Street Fords had a Ford press car last week and they tested it at the street drags at Sydney Dragway and on a chassis dyno. The first dyno figures generated some vigorous debate on various car forums, so we took up some of the doubters on their challenge to run the BOSS 335 on their dyno.

So we did. And then we went back to the original dyno to run it again.

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The cancellation of drag racing at the Hunter Valley Revfest this year caused quite a bit of controversy. However, the power skid and burnout driving event has been given the green light to continue on and has become the focal part of the show.

Because of this, the event organisers have decided to slash entry fees into the driving activities.

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