Best of the best

Dahtone Racing — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:09:44 +0000

Last weekend the Meguiar’s MotorEx was on, and what a show it was. MotorEx is one of, if not, the best automotive show in the country and this year was no different with the best of the best in hot rods, muscle cars, exotics and hi tech tuner cars all under one roof.

We were heavily involved with the rebuild of the Queen Street Customs BMW E46 M3 drag car and this was the event it was being unveiled at. After a week of all nighters and many weeks before of hard work we finally got the car to the show, anyway I’ll let the pics do the talking.

Kev from BALLR Inc. pics MotorEx 2010

Pics we took MotorEx 2010

Ready to XPLOD

Dahtone Racing — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:06:32 +0000

Over the past week we’ve been putting together the “9Z” WRX, with an all out stroker motor with a GT35 turbo, bullet proof drive train, all out custom paint work, crazy interior and stereo setup its Sony’s latest promo car and is sure to turn heads.

BAR B Cruise 2010

Dahtone Racing — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:52:16 +0000

BAR B Cruise 2010

Come and support the Starlight Foundation and join in this massive event. Sydney’s most respected work shops are coming together to raise money for this great cause, with over $10 000 in prizes up for grabs we are hoping to raise plenty of money and have a great day out.

Date - Sunday 27th June 2010

Meet Times - 10:00am

Departure Time - 10:45am Sharp

Arrival Times - approx 11:30am at the final Destination

Destination - Brighton Le Sands beach front car park
Grand Parade nearest corner streets are Hollywood & Culver Street

Meet Point A - Ozzy Tyres - Hoxton Park Road, West Hoxton

Meet Point B - McDonalds - Pennant Hills Road, Thornleigh

Meet Point C - Top One - Cnr Demeresque & Bypass, Campbelltown

Make Some Noise

Dahtone Racing — Sun, 30 May 2010 13:22:58 +0000

Darren and the guys down and Interior Designs held a sound off today, and a couple of the boys were going down so we all went along to enjoy the day.

Tony in his VZ Clubsport (DTR 60L) entered his car and cranked out 139.9 dB taking out first place in D Class and second highest over all.

Tony was there with his EVO 6 (HU57LR) was showing off his new trim, Queen St. Customs had Kandy Brandy Wine EVO 8 and Kev’s BALLR Audi on display as well. And James made a late appearance in his of chops Charade (WA84IT).

Thanks to Kev aka Ballr Inc for the photos

S2000 drag car update

Dahtone Racing — Sat, 15 May 2010 03:17:03 +0000

here are some updated photos of the S2000 drag car that one of our customers is building

Some specs of the car are Gforce GF2000 gearbox, Borg Warner S480 turbo charger, Stroker F20C running C16 fuel.

We chose to take a different path to alot of other drag racers in Australia, many racers prefer to use proven combinations of either rotary or 2JZ engines but we wanted to try something different and develop the Honda engine.

The King is here

Dahtone Racing — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:37:17 +0000

We had this awesome piece of machinery come past the shop last week.

All i can say about this car is WOW, the attention it draws is unbelievable. People have no choice but to approach it and get a closer look.

The Queen Street boys have really out done themselves with this one.

Compak Attak

Dahtone Racing — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 00:54:37 +0000

Last Sunday the Haltech Compak Attak was on at Sydney Dragway.
We were asked to join the pit crew for Queen Street Racing to prepare and maintain the two cars they were racing on the day.

The “BARB8S” RB30 Powered Gemini and the “QSSR” 20B powered E36 M3 both performed well on the day
with the Gemini running an 8.4 second pass and the BMW running a 7.806.

Old School Cool

Dahtone Racing — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:59:57 +0000

After being involved in the late model hi tech modified car scene for almost 10 Years we decided it was time to return to our roots, and build another old school Mercedes.

The car in question is a 1970 300SEL 3.5L V8. Only 9500 of these cars were built worldwide so they are quite rare these days.

The plans for the car is a complete ground up rebuild beginning with the undercarriage and working our way up.

Here is how the car was when we took delivery of it.

Workhorse

Dahtone Racing — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:46:59 +0000

Last year we purchased a Holden Crewman ute to use as a shop truck to cart parts around

The intention was to leave it standard and just drive it. Well that was the plan anyway, but it didn’t really work out too well.

After a bit of a brain storm session (only 6 days after buying it) our stock VY II crewman was stripped and prep work began for a custom paint job.

This is how it came up, coke red kandy fade to black with marbleised flames under the kandy.

Gold on White

Dahtone Racing — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:32:23 +0000

What started off as a quick engine swap, turned into a complete 5 month rebuild with this WRX.

The donor motor wasn’t up to our standards and had lived a hard life so the only way to fix things was to build a fresh one.

So it received a completely built 2L, with twist mounted GT30 turbo and all the supporting mods to back it up.

While it was in our hands Brad and Adrian from Dr. Stitch yet again worked their magic on the interior.