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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. 

CURRENT ISSUE ON SALE FRIDAY 4TH FEBRUARY!

Contents over the fold.

Hard core sleeper special. We have experimented with the cover image design!

Contents over the fold.

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.

We filmed it all. Video over the fold.

Street Fords editor Roy Velardi took his Ford Boss 335 GT media car to the drags last night and ran a 12.9sec @ 114mph full weight (1822kg plus 120kg driver) and on pump fuel. It also spun the rollers on a chassis dyno to 353rwkW.

Envy Dyno turbo Falcon and Marrano's Enhancement Division twin-turbo Commodore ute both put out 1100+rwhp. More images and details over the fold.

The other day in the ZOOM HQ, we were discussing a classic car.

The 'IMB-05S' Escort that i'm sure we all know about. I was browsing the internet for pictures of this particular Escort. However, on some wild Swedish forum half a world away the keywords "IMBOSS ESCORT" brought up this car.

All we know is that it's grey, incredibly good looking and is powered by a Volvo 5 pot turbo motor.

 More pics and video over the fold.

In 1996 Australia voted in a coalition government of the Liberal and National parties that stayed in power for a decade and Zoom was educating an enthusiast readership used to small-block V8s and carburetor-based fuel systems. Turbochargers were considered ‘cheating’.

Apologies for the quality of the cover image. We don't actually have a copy of the mag so I pulled the image from a PDF and the details below from the backup of the working files (including actual negatives!).

 ZOOM JUNE/JULY 1996

(ISSUE 2)

 Car features

- Ultimate home-built Statesman

 - 4AGZE-powered home-built beach buggy

 - 1983 EFI XD Falcon

Specs: 351 Cleveland MoTeC injection with Edelbrock hi-rise manifold, MoTeC D2 ECU, ported 4V heads, Crane Hydraulic roller cam, TRW forged flat top pistons, Genie extractors, Tremec TR 3550 5-speed, ET Clutches modified McLeod street/strip clutch, Ford 9in diff’ with 3.56:1 ratio LSD

 - Supercharged 500hp Commodore

 - LJ Torana GTR

Specs: 179 Holden Red motor, twin SU carbies with Holley float bowls, Garrett T04 turbo

 Tech Features

- Modifying EFI basics, and by ‘basic’ we mean basic! Such tech wisdom included points like, modifications to the engine will require changes to the EFI. ‘EFI’ was discussed as if it was a single thing rather than a complex system with various parts each of which can be upgraded for different reasons.

 - DIY boost controller on a VL Turbo using a brass needle valve, it made 132rwkW!

 - ‘Chipping’ the Ford XR6 (XG ute) and Mondeo. The ‘chips’ didn’t work that well!

 Events & Lifestyle

- Buying used –Nissan GTS

- Targa Tasmania in the Zoom BMW M3R. Somehow the early editors of Zoom managed to wrangle a sponsorship deal with a Targa Tasmania team in a E36 239kW M3R