Mark Hayes LC Torana Australia's quickest street car 2009

[12salem]

So can we safely assume its an American V8 under the hood ?

[Rat69Fink]

what an ugly little piece of car!  Eeeekkkkss :(

[MegaHall9]

@dandamansrandomvids yeah but did he have d.o.t tyres when he did that time

[myrg500gamma]

TUFF

[saintluke87]

he rolled off in the top end or did the audio go out of sync round the middle?

[XdragonSparxX]

THAT'S MY UNCLE, NO JOKES!!!!!!! ^_^

[355OLJ]

You'll need it fukwit... Anytime, tell me where...

[pkrieter]

HELL YEA H ! One SWEEEEEEEEET ride !

[355OLJ]

Nikonboy07 is a total and utter fuckwit...

[nikonboy07]

@355OLJ With 22 years karate experience too...

[MmeDesgranges]

@nikonboy07 Get back in the kitchen you little whiny bitch. Make me a sandwich.

[nikonboy07]

@MmeDesgranges I would have but I was at the dojo this morning!

[Shilo83]

Such a violent engine.

[warples1]

Fukn sik torana all balls

[jazzspazz98]

thats why im proud to be aussie

[fjbutch]

Bloody nice!!....Shit I  miss my GTR after seeing this ... nice vid

[L68xg]

ive seen this cumin onto the hiway from dapto

[sbc350]

real street racer!

[HEKTIC458]

i shouldve gone to this =(

This car is ridiculously fast!!! its an absolute animal!!!

But i can't see how this car could be "legal" on Australian roads?

[XdragonSparxX]

@HEKTIC458 Mark Hayes is my uncle, it's 100% legal, and is fully registered, i've been in that car. no jokes.

[Mcbleh]

If only you people knew how much he cruises this thing on the street. It might not be 100% legal, but neither are jap crap's with chopped springs and cannon mufflers, commodores with jet black tint, modern peformance cars with punched cats, etc etc. It's a street&strip car, and the quickest one in the country. I daresay the most streetable 7second car you'll ever see here.

[MrEasyCash]

Well said.

[toranacar]

Unfortunately Mark Hayes wouldnt have much competition with other street cars as the laws now are so restrictive; his car was built, engineered and registered years ago.

Sick Torana.

[svlion1977]

best comment so far. you wouldnt be able to build a car like this and get it engineered and registered these days.

[toranacar]

@svlion1977 Sad isnt it?

I remember in 1992 he had this car going with a 454.

I was thinking when i get the cash, when i get older ill do the same, little did i know the gov was going to screw the rules.

[fjbutch]

nice LC

[sandlerfan100]

I thought the video was on "Fast Forward" for a moment there! Wow.

[450hp202turbo]

Man oh man that lc of marks is insane

has enough NOZ to launch the space shuttle. lol" i have a pic i took of his car in the pitts at willowbank i think i counted 9 10 NOZ bottels laying around in 1 pic

[yourkidding69er]

top video and awesome car....

[kidnamedcal]

this thing is tough as guts, saw it at the nats a few years ago, loved it. Anyone who thinks its not a street car, its got rego doesnt it? he drove it on the street didnt he? should be proof enough, sure it might not have been `100% legal but a 60hp daihatsu with a broken headlight isnt legal either.

[TheFirearmEnthusiast]

Shoulda gone to the shooting range lol.

[mr5litre304]

Gotta love Mark's taste in music, Hunter's & Collectors, Guns 'n' Roses..... Not to mention his taste in cars.. awesome.

[torpedo35]

Recall seeing this car in Torana magazine ages ago. Nice win.

[Luckyhorn00]

NSW has THE strictest road rules of any state!

And the most expensive rego.

Its Fast!

Get over it or build one for yourself to beat him next year...........

[nikonboy07]

I don't think so, sa motor reg would never allow a big block to be registered in an lc or lj torana. Matter of fact, there are only three vehicles with street legal 308's in them here in sa, unlike interstate where putting a v8 in these cars seems to be the norm.

[shredBucketheadshred]

WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!! they SURE WOULD! buuuuut they limit ya HP so actually there's no point reallt! besides doing it and then upping the hp so ya MIGHT get away with it! oh and the limit is 350 hp! SAME as any v8 in one!

[genreaper]

Street Registered? Wheres the heater box ? Nar just taking the piss, Tough Car, well done.

[tuf73]

You don't need a heater box.

Set up some hair dryers under the dash and use tubing to blow hot air onto the screen for a demister.

[baldymp3]

awesome car and well done to mark and dina.

was gonna post something in reply to all the other tard comments on here but theres no point.

[80aussiepride08]

that is kick ass

[GIXRBOY]

Ignore the crap!!!This is one very tough STREET CAR

just appreciate the effort that has gone into this car and the quality of it. It turns heads every time it lines up and looks unreal, take a close look it is tough.

[LOWGM]

love ya style mate youve built a fucken fat vehicle!!!

[sunstone12]

Nice car - but it's no longer a street car when its got no exhaust, a chute, wheelie bars and drag tyres.

[Luckyhorn00]

Congratulations to Mark and Dina!

And congratulations to Street Machine.

This whole concept is what street machining is all about, building a car that can actually be driven on the street!!!

Not just a trailer queen

Cheers!

[nikonboy07]

Mr Lucky Horn. No offense but the entire point of street machine magazine is to use silly events like this one and clever advertising to encourage kids straight out of school to blow all there hard earned cash on modifying cars ( check out all the undereducated bogans on grunt files) instead of doing something purposeful with it like buying a house. Trust me - I'm a reformed street machiner and have learned the hard way.

cheers

[Luckyhorn00]

Oh im sorry Nikon, are you saying that the ONLY purpose of building and driving cars is to waiste money??

And that the only people that enjoy cars are "undereducated bogans"?

My comments did not reflect either of those points and instead congratulated Mark and Dina, and the sponsorship for the event that SM gave to run the event.

It was an event for the people, to enjoy their Hard work.

You Sir are a Hypercrit!

And you obviously dont understand what street machining is all about.

[nikonboy07]

Trust me I speak from experience. First car straight from school in 89 was a 73 lj xu1, Spent wads of cash on it ( thirteen months in the panel shop when I was originally told it would be three) but totally impractical. Couldn't leave it anywhere and the insurance was ridiculous. My advice to anyone is buy your dream car, chuck it in mum and dads shed, then buy your house so you have somewhere to keep it.

cheers.

[shredBucketheadshred]

you sound like a sore loser! and ILLINFORMED! maybe get a better job ya loser!

[brendan454]

just got a few questions.

1. was he lissening to the gunners on his first run?

2. what does he keep doing with his hand on the roof?

3.when he takes off on his 2nd run it looks like his wheel bar moves down, what causing this. i see it all the time at the drags

4- his spedo and tacho dont work?

[RaceUseOnly]

1: yes

2: purging the nitrous

3: that's the suspension working

4: If you watch it in HD u will see the tacho working on the cruise and as for the speedo........I don't no.

[DouglasR8]

@RaceUseOnly

4: probably doesnt want to know what speed its trappin at :)

[quinn041]

who gives 2 fucks

[pdak005]

this event dosnt make any sense drive your car 45km on the street and then rip the exhaust off and put wheelie bars on it?

[nikonboy07]

That begs the more puzzling question though and that is if the car is not street legal what is it doing being driven on the street?????And if hayes was in an accident where would he stand legally??

Look, I take my hat off to hayes, I was involved with a lot of quick street cars in Adelaide in the early nineties until our strip was shut down but events like this are, and always have since their inception, been dominated by cars from the eastern states because cars like this can't be built in sa.

[RaceUseOnly]

Just quietly..... between you and me........most modified cars are not "Street Legal"

[nikonboy07]

Aaaaa so now we are getting to the point. Australia's quickest street cars are not street cars. For arguments sake we'll call them drag cars driven on the street under a day pass. That should clear everything up..I...er...think???

[etstreet05]

For YOUR sake we'll call them drag cars driven on the street..................let it go, it's been run and won. Well done Mark

[baldymp3]

dude if u want to get down to tin tacks most cars on the road are not legal. bigger rims, exhaust, dark tint, the list goes on and on.

[MmeDesgranges]

@nikonboy07 top being so bitter, you've got your dream house like you wanted. Now go and be content with your choices.

[80aussiepride08]

ow yeah!! that is kick ass

[michaelmatee]

it said in one of the latest street machines that he has to get the car registered in all states to be crowned Australia's fastest street car so he is actually only NSW fastest street car

[etstreet05]

you will find that the event was/is open to all cars registered in all states in Australia, there were interstate cars competing as well, he won his class and he was the fastest on the day. This is Australia's fastest street car :)

[nikonboy07]

Yes - but until the road rego rules are standardised between all states the event is clearly unfair. Not all states allow a big block to be registered in a torana of this size so it makes a mockery of the entire event. We could take a top fueller , put a dirty big fuel tank and radiator in it and drive it on the street and, just as hayes car, it still wouldn't be street legal.

No offense to Hayes but its the organizers and rta who cause all the bad blood regarding silly events like this.

[RaceUseOnly]

NO WHERE did it say "STREET LEGAL". The organizers consider any car that can drive the 45km trip in traffic in a certain time a "street car" not a "street legal car" the event was fair and was open to everybody.

No offense but I think it's people that don't understand the rules that cause all the bad blood.

[razelbear]

'cmon fellas, ned karanovic was running mid nines in his fifty seven chev without gas in the early ninteties. The car was street legal in sa which has the most strict rego rules in the country, unlike the lax rules cars undergo in the eastern states. The only mod he used to do when going off street was to drop the front bumper off due to the weight. With the gas connected I think he got down to an 8.8.

[razelbear]

This is not the quickest street legal car in the country. You are all fooling yourselves. To be legal in the entire country the vehicle should pass registration in all states which this clearly would not. This means no front runners, full exhaust, no gas and street legal tyres.

[RaceUseOnly]

you have clearly missed the point.

[DouglasR8]

a well deserved win i must say.

there are those that sit back and critacize.......

and there are those out there giving it a go.

AWESOME VID!!!

[razelbear]

and there are those who can't spell critcise.

[DouglasR8]

spell what?

criticize......or......critcis­e?

[IFUCTU]

love this car! words best torana by far!!!

[johnske84]

was tehre that day and it was going hard

[lizzi76]

very very very nice...........