2022-01-01 Street Machine

THE first day of action for the long-awaited these mad machines cruise in public.
return of Street Machine Summernats Those on the cruise route can then opt to
promises to be the perfect entrée to a
ripping weekend! Entrant scrutineering gets scratch the itch and burn some rubber down
underway from 7am, with the cruise route the beloved Skid Row from 1pm to 8pm,
open 9am-10pm. where all entrants will be allowed to pin it
to the floor and send those tyres to heaven.
The annual City Cruise takes place
12-1pm, where the streets of Canberra Once you’ve whetted your appetite
will be awash in a sea of horsepower. It’s for burnt rubber there, jump across to
a chance to get your unregistered beast the burnout pad for the Last Chance
outside of the Summernats cruise route and Wildcard Shootout from 4pm to 6pm,
onto public roads with a special permit, and where desperados will vie for a spot in the
it’ll be a true sight to behold for spectators as whopping 60-car Burnout Masters field that
will go into qualifiers on Saturday.

SCHEDULE

07:00-20:00: Entrant Scrutineering
09:00-22:00: Entrant Cars Cruising
10:00-17:00: Street, Elite & Tuff Street Judging
12:00-13:00: City Cruise
13:00-20:00: Skid Row
16:00-18:00: Last Chance Wildcard Burnouts

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FRIDAY is when the ’Nats hits another gear, with drifting, the dyno, show ’n’ shine,
Top 60 unveilings and of course a whole day’s worth of burnout action on Skid
Row and at the pad!

The Drift Cadet rides (near the scrutineering pavilion) kick off at 9am and go right
through to 8pm if you feel like getting your slideways on.

The MPW Performance dyno cell fires up, too, with the Haltech Horsepower
Heroes running from 9am to 5pm to see who has the biggest squeeze.

Day one of the Shannons show ’n’ shine on the grassy Canna Main Arena gets
cracking from 9am too, while Skid Row will see burnouts belting down the alleyway
from 11am to 8pm.

It’ll also be a mammoth day on the pad, with Burnout Championship qualifiers
getting underway at 10am, mincing rubber ’til 5pm. Late Friday afternoon also
marks the very first day of the Summernats Fringe Festival in Braddon, where the
city streets will be closed off to allow Summernats entrants to cruise the streets
against a backdrop of live music, food trucks, open pubs and bars, and park-ups
with a show ’n’ shine.

Speaking of shine, back at EPIC, the highly anticipated unveilings in the Meguiar’s
Elite Hall kick off at 6:45pm. A whopping 24 cars have been tipped to have the
covers peeled off for the very first time, making it the biggest year for unveilings in
Summernats history.

And if that’s not enough for you, the live music from Aussie hip-hop stars Hooligan
Hefs and Kerser starts cranking from 8.30pm ’til late.

SCHEDULE

09:00-20:00: Drift Rides
09:00-17:00: Haltech Horsepower Heroes
09:00-17:00: Shannons Show ’n’ Shine
10:00-17:00: Burnout Championship Qualifying
11:00-20:00: Skid Row
17:00-23:00: Fringe Festival – Braddon
18:45-22:00: Top 60 Show, Unveilings
20:30: Concert – Hooligan Hefs & Kerser

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READY TO STAGE

AUSSIE hip-hop stars Hooligan Hefs (above) and
Kerser (top) will be taking care of Friday’s live
music from 8.30pm. ’Nats 34 has been a long time
coming for Kerser, who missed out in 2019 and
2020, first due to bushfires and then COVID, so he’s
pumped to finally get there and smash some beats
and rhymes out!

FRINGE FESTIVAL

IT HAS been many years since Summernats entrants
could cruise and gather in numbers outside EPIC,
but it is set to happen again, with the Fringe Festival
taking over the suburb of Braddon on Friday and
Saturday nights.

“There’ll be up to 600 Summernats cars cruising the
area, as well as parking up with a show ’n’ shine, live
music, and open pubs, bars and restaurants, to create
a city precinct,” said Summernats managing director
Andy Lopez.

“It’ll be all of Lonsdale Street between the two
servos and the whole block around, so it’s going to
be a big area. The streets will be shut off to normal
traffic from 5pm until 11pm on both nights, but the
public can access the event free of charge on foot.”

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MULLETS & MOWERS

BESIDES hundreds of killer cars, the main arena on
Saturday is full of action, including mower racing,
mullet comp, tattoo comp, Fashions on the Field
and more!

MEGA MASTERS!

THE Burnout Masters qualifying pool has doubled to
60 cars! That number will be culled to just 10 finalists
on Sunday, all vying for the highest cash prize ever
offered for the win – $25,000!

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SATURDAY is often seen as the biggest and field has doubled to a whopping 60 cars, which will
wildest day during the Summernats festival, and still be whittled down to only 10 finalists aiming to
when you look at the rundown of what’s on offer, take home the $25K cash.
it’s not hard to see why.
By day, the Canna Main Arena will see the
There’s something going on in every corner of hilariously awesome lawn mower racing and the
the joint, with the cruise route kicking off from 9am Fashions on the Field. Tattoo, mullet and fashion
and Skid Row open from 11am to 8pm. Saturday competitions will be on the main stage, while the
afternoons tend to get pretty wild down there as Shannons show ’n’ shine takes up the rest of the
everyone idles their way down Tuff Street in the grass.
hopes of snagging a spot in the queue to blaze a
set down Skid Row. Sunset brings with it the annual Supercruise
around the trotting track, and wrapping up a killer
Action on the pad ramps up as well, with night will be DJ sensation Hot Dub Time Machine,
qualifying for the Burnout Championship starting who will open the evening with a pyro show to
at 11am, before the heavy-hitting Masters hit the accompany the Saturday-night fireworks, before
pad for qualifying at 3pm. This year the Masters belting out mad tunes from 9.30pm ’til late.

SCHEDULE 11:00-20:00: Skid Row
15:00-18:00: Burnout Masters Qualifying
09:00-22:00: Entrant Cars Cruising 17:00-23:00: Fringe Festival – Braddon
09:00-11:00: Motorkhana 19:30-20:45: Supercruise
09:00-17:00: Haltech Horsepower Heroes 21:30: Concert – Hot Dub Time Machine
09:00-18:00: Summernats Tattoos
09:00-16:00: Street Finalists Display
11:00-15:00: Burnout Championship Qualifying

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THE final day of Summernats is all about crowning winners and making legends, as top
gongs are handed out across the board.

The Grand Champion driving events kick off from 11am, with all the pristine machines
in the running out to prove they have the go to match the show. The Grand Champion is
then crowned in the traditional ceremony on the burnout pad at 12pm, with the Burnout
Championship finals to follow straight after at 1pm.

If you’re after more show-stoppers, the Top 60 Elite finalists will be on display in the
Meguiar’s Pavilion from 9am to 3pm, as well as the PPG Vibrance Supreme Show in
Central Park from 9.30am ’til late morning.

Winners of the Haltech Horsepower Heroes will also be crowned for each class, with
competitors turning the wick up to 11 on their cars as they chase big numbers and
silverware.

The headline act, the Burnout Masters finals, gets underway from 3pm, with 10 of
Australia’s best burnout drivers and machines battling it out for the title of Australia’s top
tyre-fryer and the $25K prize money.

Shortly afterwards, Summernats will draw to close, a time in which we can all summon
what little energy we have to kick back with a beer and ponder another ripper edition of
Street Machine Summernats.

SCHEDULE

09:00-17:00: Entrant Cars Cruising
09:00-15:00: Top 60 Finalists Show
09:00-14:00: Skid Row
09:30-11:30: PPG Vibrance Supreme Show
11:00-12:00: Grand Champion Driving Events
11:00-12:00: Haltech Horsepower Heroes
12:00-13:00: Grand Champion Awards
13:00-15:00: Burnout Championship Finals
15:00-16:30: Burnout Masters Finals

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HERLX

JUDITH Menso’s plans to unveil her blown LX hatch
(above) at Summernats 2020 were dashed by COVID,
so she did the deed at Rockynats instead! But luckily
for us, Judith will be bringing HERLX down from FNQ
for all to enjoy at Summernats 34. If you see it, give it
a good look – it’s a stunning build.

MIGHTY MERCH!

THE Street Machine team have a full range of merch
up for grabs in the Rare Spares pavilion all weekend
long, including the new Street Machine Legends
Volume Two book, HQFORU shirts for the whole family,
a new GTR XU-1 T-shirt design by Ten Tenths Creative,
and another by Marty Schneider starring our 2021
Milwaukee Street Machine of the Year winner! Drop
past and say g’day!

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STORY I A I N K E L LY PHOTOS S H A U N TA N N E R

INJECTION
SITES

THE majority of the fuel
runs through the supercharger,
but the injectors in the manifold
still play an important function.
“The port EFI is used for tuning to
balance cylinder trims,” says Frank.
“Fuel distribution through the manifold
might not be even across cylinders,
so we read the plugs and chase what

they’re telling us. That’s an
old-school way of doing
it, but we find it
works better.”

540CI BIG-BLOCK CHEV
> DANDY ENGINES, CARRUM DOWNS, VICTORIA
WHILE they’re renowned for their
flying Fords, the Dandy Engines “I made the comp fairly light on this combo find out we tune the engines on closed-loop,”
crew don’t mind screwing – around 9.0:1,” Frank explains. “This engine says Frank. “I think it’s nicer for the engine to be
is going into our customer Kent Chellew’s four- able to make tuning changes on the fly, so if the
ECU can keep up with the demand, why wouldn’t
together tar-blasting Bowties, door HQ, and it’ll do duties on the street – if he you run closed-loop? I mean, I also run FAIRXW
and Joe Gauci’s car on closed-loop.”
as this blown, 540ci big-block Chev proves. doesn’t get attacked by the police!”
The Comp cam is a custom-grind solid-roller
Dandy’s Frank Marchese has put together a red- A Moroso sump with a billet Moroso oil pump done to Dandy’s specs, but Frank says the
supercharger is their restriction. “The cam is
hot combo based around a Dart Big M tall-deck, lives on the bottom of the fat block, while the pretty wild, and it would make more power with a
bigger blower,” he says. “We spun the 10/71 to
which will do plenty of hard yards. opposite end wears a Fisher port-injection 38 per cent over for about 21-22psi, and it’s at
maximum capacity. People need to understand
“It’s a 24-degree big-block Chevy head, so manifold, topped by that TBS 10/71. Keen eyes you can’t just keep changing the pulleys to make
it is an off-the-shelf engine,” the 2018 Street will pick what looks like both electronic and more boost, as this is hot boost. There is no
Machine Drag Challenge winner explains. “There mechanical injection on the tower of power (see more power to be made from ramming 30psi
of hot air into the engine, compared to 21psi
aren’t any exotic cam bearings or anything like sidebar). of cool, dense air, which makes more power
anyway!”
that in it. If I were to put a Big Duke cylinder head “Joe Blo Speed Shop supplied the kit with billet
That isn’t to say the Dandy crew were
on it, it would push the power-per-cubic-inch, Plazmaman injectors spraying into the Big & Ugly disappointed with the results from the pressure-
fed 540. Running on the in-house engine dyno.
but there are fewer manifolds available for that hat, and they’re providing most of the fuel, as it the big Bowtie made 1380hp on E85 before

head off the shelf, so for the money spent it is helps keep the rotors cool and improves fuel stomping out 1580hp on methanol. s

better to go this way.” atomisation,” Frank says.

The combo is centred around a Callies Magnum On the face of it, the Chev is a very traditional,

crank, Oliver steel rods and JE pistons, while the old-school engine, but there are smarts hidden

AFR heads feature a conventional valve layout inside that will make it perfect for cruising on the

and CNC porting. The Isky Max .973 lifters street – and with as much power as an old Wild

are the largest tie-bars the company makes, Bunch donk.

operating half-inch pushrods, T&D shaft-mount “This engine uses FuelTech individual coils and

rockers and PAC valve springs. an FT600 ECU, but it might confuse people to

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