NZ Performance Car – September 2019

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WORDS: JADEN MARTIN PHOTOS: RICHARD OPIE

SICK OF TREADING THE FINE LINE BETWEEN TRACK AND STREET, ELLIOT OSBORNE HAS THROWN AWAY ALL

CONCEPT OF ROAD LEGALITY TO BUILD A LETHAL K24-POWERED HONDA EG CIRCUIT SLAYER

W

e all want to have our cake and eat it too. That’s the

whole point of baking a cake, right? You can eat

it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner if you’re down

for that. But, as soon as the powers that be throw

into the mix a book full of legal requirements that

dictate exactly how that cake can be made and forcibly regulate the

recipe through biannual checks, all of a sudden having your cake

and eating it the way you want becomes a whole lot harder.

So, when Elliot Osborne wanted to whip up a sweet treat far

beyond what your local bakery is flogging — one that wouldn’t be

held back by the street car recipe book and wasn’t going to ruin

his bank account in the process — he decided to forget any notion

of road legality and instead focus on developing a package best

suited to the unrelenting corners and never-ending straights of his

local track, without ever needing to set foot on the street again.

It’s the culmination of years spent by Elliot treading the fine