As part of testing for our entry into the Motor Magazine Hot Tuner challenge we organised a private track day at Phillip Island circuit. Phillip Island was chosen as it was similar in layout and speed to Eastern Creek where Hot Tuner will be held.

We also has a few lucky customers come out and join us as well as good friend Pete Wrench who was testing his HPF tuned Evo X and giving hot laps!

Our friends at Pedders Suspension not only helped us setup our VE’s suspension, but got plenty of track time in their project ‘eXtreme VE’. HPF has been heavily involved in the development of the Pedders VE, having fitted and tuned the Harrop supercharger kit as well as the clutch, exhaust, cam and balancer. Check out more information on the car here.

We will be holding more track days in the future where we can help you use your car at its limits legally as well as provide advice on car setup and the best lines. If you are interested in hearing more about the next drive day register your interested here and we’ll keep you informed.

Street Commodores – 5/02/2009

Another Summernats has come and gone with mixed emotions for the team at HPF, as a lot of you will know Lyle lemon passed away early last year and it was with his wife Cheree’s consent that we decided to campaign MR PSI at this year’s HP Heroes competition at the Summernats in his honor. It was Lyle’s goal when he built MR PSI to win HP Heroes competition and I felt it was the least we could do to honour his memory.

Apart from the numerous customer cars up at the Nats, we took along three cars in particular, MRPSI to compete in HP hero’s, our blown blue XR8 Ute which we set-up for the burnout comp and a Chrysler 300C SRT8 with a stroked 426 Hemi topped with a Whipple 3.4litre supercharger and although it wasn’t completely finished we had to take just to show it off.

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Street Commodores Cruise for Charity is an annual event run around the country where Commodore owners can get together to raise funds for charity.

The 2010 event in Melbourne was run on Sunday 3rd October to benefit the Royal Childrens Hospital Foundation. HPF was invited to participate in the event as a trader to which we happily obliged. Keep Reading

May 15th 2010

HPF was happy to hold a dyno day for the guys over at the HSV Forum. The weather was typical of Melbourne but didn’t stop the members from bringing their pristine examples along for the day. Around 13 cars were run up on the dyno with figured ranging from 154rwkw to an impressive 278kw from a supercharged VX with a heavily slipping belt. Keep Reading

In an Australian first HPF with support from Yella Terra has performed performance upgrades to two vehicles over the duration of Summernats 23.

The Plan

The goal for the event was to take a standard VE SSV Commodore and upgrade with a head and cam package, and install a supercharger to a standard BA XR8 Falcon. Keep Reading

August 8th & 9th 2010 at Easter Creek Raceway, Sydney

The Event

HPF are excited to have participated in the 2010 Motor Magazine Hot Tuner Challenge, having entered an FPV Super Pursuit Ute. Held at Sydney’s Eastern Creek facility the event consists of several tests where vehicles are judged against cars entered by the countries best tuning workshops. Keep Reading