Every year for the past five years, the Toronto Hyundai Club has organized an event for owners to come together to talk shop, mingle and check out what other like-minded individuals have done to their rides.

A how-to replace your car’s thermostat. Very informative…

Track days, while inherently fun, are rather costly, and you don’t get a whole lot of track time to master your ride or the track you are trying to conquer.

One of our clients imported a Nissan Fairlady into Canada. For those who don’t know, a Fairlady is a right-hand drive Nissan 300Z. It’s powered by a twin-turbo motor that puts out a lot more power then the North American version. He wanted to have a more modern and more accurate gauge package to be [...]

A few issues back, we took our first look at subwoofers. This is a key subject in the area of car audio, since most systems, even some of the best high-end factory systems, often lack the ability to reproduce the bottom octave of the audio spectrum accurately. In this installment of Plugged-In, we’ll look at what you get for your money when you buy a high-end subwoofer.

We all work hard in some capacity. How hard we work, however, is really up for interpretation—training for a marathon, taking an extra job to make ends meet, or sweating it out in the final level of Call of Duty 4. But we can all agree that a serious tuning project is no easy task, inevitably requiring a good dose of sweat equity. From the planning stage, to setting budgets, to all the labour and everything in between, it’s clear: you had better expect some serious hurt and hustle.

As regular readers may have gathered, I do not go into much detail about power-increasing modifications in these performance pieces. I am of the firm belief that power is the last facet of performance modification to be explored when looking to gain a faster time at a track day, or to give your ride a little more excitement. Therefore, I’ve concentrated on suspension, brake and chassis tuning to get the most out of what the factory has given you. However, this month, I will finally be diving into the engine, but it won’t be something that the majority of you may think. I’m talkin’ diesel power tuning!

A few months ago, a client of ours wanted to have his Dodge Dakota redone. We stripped the entire interior down and either rebuilt, replaced or refinished every inch of it. We built a custom stereo system, all new gauges and even installed a PS2 game console. For more information, contact us at info@hzemall.com or (604) 888-6568.

While building a subwoofer enclosure might seem as simple as cutting a few pieces of wood and screwing or nailing them together, in actuality there are a lot of different considerations that must be evaluated to achieve a desirable result. I teamed up with industry veteran Matt Gordash at his new shop, Defined Designs in Concord, Ontario, to help walk us through the steps of how to construct a quality subwoofer enclosure.

The Need For Speed and the desire to go faster than anyone or anything else in this world can’t be faked. Motives could be, but not results. This edition of the Design Showcase looks at a German-engineered speed racer that’s poised to rewrite the record books for fastest road-legal production cars.