Kranze

The centers are a bit worn out, but ill fix that after the next trackday.

You can kind of see the new mirrors in the first pic too.

The boat arrived

Skyline Update

A while ago the r32 got pink stickered and ordered off the road, so I’ve been spending some time and money getting it all legal again. Thats all sorted now.

I also got a pair of model 5’s,

they came black, so I sanded them back and adam resprayed them a bit  nicer.

Fitted some of the parts that I’d collected, its still a piece, but its getting there.

The crack in the front bumper is from a cats eye that hit the other day when changing lanes, maybe BN on an r32 wasn’t the best idea for a daily aha.

Happy Birthday Adam

It was Adams birthday a week or so back. I got him a set of HID’s, also got myself some. Thank you Mr. Harte for sourcing them in the U.S. for me.

Adam also got some raybrig lenses, you can sort of see them in this photo

Monday, Taupo

We both headed down to Taupo on Monday for a drift day organised by Drift Motorsport NZ. Awesomely run day, heaps of track time, basically full track drifting and super cool people to drift with.

Damage for the day was; my rear gaurd and bumper destroyed due to a tyre exploding, 2 axles, and the track mashall beating up  adams hotroad front when he came off (fixable though!).

Cheers to Keisuke for the photos, check his blog for more shots from the day.

Adam quickly pulled out the rears the Saturday before, so he could get rid of some of the camber in the back, hes going to clean up and respray the quarters soon. Both cars had heaps more grip, and it made a massive difference. I also got my car tuned, it made 200kw which isn’t much, but the torque curve keeps climbing right up till redline, and it was awesome to drift with. I just need to get a boost controller as the boost was dropping from 14 to 12ish psi.

Both cars are due in for a freshen up soon.

Sunday Supsension Work

We spent today getting a few things done to get my s13 rolling again so it can go off for a tune.

Adam did a sick job fitting and welding up my new strut tops that Nigel sent over.  So awesome

The inner guard before under seal

all finished up and primered

and heres my lower arms that adam finished shortening

comparison to an unmodified arm.

Corolla Update

Picked up a bunch of stuff for the corolla the other day.

Blue top 4age, oversized pistions, twin sidedrafts, cams etc.

Picked up a pair of SSR star sharks. Heres a photo of us working out what offsets we need, since we are new to this toyota business. We will be getting new outers made up for them, so they will end up 8.5j - 15ish and we will run them on the front. The main reason for the new outers is that the other one looks like this:

Adam came home on saterday from pick-a-part with a 22spline t40 out of a old corona with a 3t in it. So if anyone has a t series box to 4age bell housing let us know!

Box of stuff in the boot thats ready to go in, just waiting on a bell housing so that adam can fab up the mounts.

ripped out the old 4k and box, it took us like 20 minutes, old cars are awesome.

Nigel sent over a few things for us the other week.

These are so awesome.

Your the man nigel, thanks!

Small update on my car,

new rb25 turbo, and braided water lines we made up

the link g3 ecu is in, aswell as some ca18det injectors

we also removed all the factory idle control stuff, so while the plenum was off I took some quick photos. I got it a few years ago, and apparently it was made in the same factory as all the JUN stuff

the welds are good, and the internal trumpets are cool! I was really happy when it first arrived.

Picked up my ORC clutch the other day too.

Everythings back together now, just a few things left to do to the rear suspension and its off for a tune. Can’t wait to drift with more than 160kw!

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