NEW-SCHOOL RULES
DESPITE the rise in EFI and digitally controlled niceties being fitted to street machines, building killer cars is still seen as a largely analogue process. Not at Down Town Kustoms in Taree, NSW, though. The shop should be familiar to regular SMreaders, having built the likes of Dave and Lyn Keen’s chopped LS1-powered FJ coupe (SM, Nov ’13); Glenn Profilio’s LS3-powered ‘Refined’ FC ute (SM, Dec ’15); and Peter Sharp’s in-the-build wide-body HQ Monaro coupe, SHQRP. Over the past few years, DTK has been moving towards incorporating higher-tech solutions to the myriad engineering problems that confront the team on a daily basis, so we sat down with DTK’s frontman Graeme Brewer to get the good oil. And you can check out their use of 3D printing on page 118.
How did DTK kick off?
It all started in about 2001 when I went to the
