About a month ago I was talking to Mike Burroughs the owner and creator of StanceWorks.com I was asking him about some tips on running a site like his and on how to keep on growing Let Loose Racing, I didn't expect him to reply but what he did reply shocked me even more "I would LOVE to feature your race car, That thing is amazing". A big part of me thought this is way to good to be true, see StanceWorks is a car culture site that I have religiously checked on weekly to see t

Building a house has seriously impacted my race car building funds and to be honest i've seriously made stuff all progress on the XF lately and its eating away at me, nearly every penny I earn atm goes towards my home loan, but hopefully over the next 2 months I can cut back on the savings and start spending on the race car again. One of the main areas needing a cash influx is the rear end as its relatively been untouched back there for 25 years, the only thing I have done is

The last couple of months have been hektik! So I thought i'd give everyone a bit of an update on where were at with the car and what our immediate plans are. First off i'll start by saying we have chosen a target date to shakedown the car and that will be march 16th at Sandown Raceway, I would have loved to get it out sometime this year but I made a silly decision and decided to buy a house so thats hurt the bank a tad, so this will give us plenty of time to get money in orde

The GoodWood Festival of Speed is an event that up until a couple years ago we really didn't know much about, the annual event was founded by Lord March in 1993 and has grown in stature every single year to the point now that the even is truly a bucket list item for any motorsport fan. Goodwood attracts all types of cars and bikes from the motorsport world, anything from modern and classic racercars, Formula 1, Indy cars, NASCAR, Lemans winners, V8 Supercars and sooo much mor

Phil Morrison is the owner of the English company Driftworks, a business that started out as a group of friends that helped introduce the sport of drifting to the UK and eventually turned Driftworks into a very successful business that manufactures and sells millions in drifting and track performance products. Along with his ever-growing business he also boasts quite the car collection that includes one seriously crazy AE86 (DW86) drift car featuring a custom chassis and one

So i'm gonna start this blog post off by letting you all know Let Loose Racing will be at Motor Ex on the 26th and 27th of May but ill fill you in on that at the end of this blog post. One thing i've been looking at for a while with the XF is adding a little bit of aero to the big square falcon, now I don't want to do anything to out there its not a World Time Attack Car it doesn't need to have a rear spoiler the size of a pool table or a F1 wing mounted a metre in front of t

Its always exciting times when we make the 1 hour 15 minute drive to the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit and when its playing host to the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship its one of the best motorsport events in the country. Every time we visit the circuit were always blown away at how clean and well maintained the place is and the location is so unexpected but at the same time adds a perfect back drop for any motorsport event. The 4.450km track consists of 12 turns

Earlier this year we pondered the idea of if we could get the #WannaBeRacer XF to this years Meguiars MotorEx show at the Melbourne show grounds, it would not be easy but we thought hey lets give it a shot. The car its self if it does make it wont be fully complete but will look pretty complete, in a way it would be our way of introducing Let Loose Racing to the automotive world and letting everyone see what we are about. So who knows you might see us there (fingers crossed)!

At one point I had an XR6 Turbo engine for this build but something about it never quite had we fully committed to it, I've always been a V8 fan and I really wanted to build one for this so I sold off my Barra turbo setup and sourced this! A 2001 series 3 AU XR8 roller cam Windsor, it came out of a falcon with 120,000 km's on it and it looks to have had a fairly easy life, I really wanted a late model Windsor as the later Tickford engines had the best flowing OEM cylinder hea

Building a race car is something that I have dreamed about for as long as I could remember, nearly every weekend I'm watching motorsport whether it's on TV or down at our local tracks. Unfortunately, apart from a little bit of karting in my early 20's I never quite got myself a drive and didn't quite know how to either. A couple years ago I conceded that being a professional driver is probably not in my foreseeable future but I still wanted to have some fun out on the race tr