Hampton Video

Chris’s first attempt at editing, came out pretty cool I thought

1st Hampton Downs Twilight Session

On Saterday we headed down to an evening session at the recently completed Hampton Downs racetrack. Awesome track, and its only around an hour away from our place, sick.

Once again Adams car went perfect, mine not so much. I managed to snap an axle, kill another rear gaurd, and blow 3rd. Oh well, we are almost there with getting everything on the car where we want it to be.

Waz’s new car with its new 1jz and paint looking heaps sick.

Mels new JZX100 and new model 5’s.

Mark and Hugo.

Michael and his soarer.

Thanks to Chris and Kayle for the photos, check their blogs for more.
Oh, and my whole rb20 setup is for sale, so if any of you NZ guys want any parts off it let me know.

Shauns Car

I went out with Chris and our good friend Shaun to get some much needed photos of his car. Its awesome

Just need to get this dude out on the track more now.

Check Chris’s blog for more.

Track Day Prep.

So since a tyre delammed at the last track day in Taupo, my car has been looking pretty run down

First up was fixing the rear bumper

I’ve got a new one arriving soon, so instead of going through all the effort of making it mint and painting, I just fiberglassed it all up and vinyled the cracks. It came out ok enough for the track day I think.

Adam did a sick job of fixing the rear gaurd that was missing a big chunk.

New BN skirts.

I wet sanded all day, and Adam sprayed everything up after work today.

Gaurd and skirts finished,

Eastbears painted too

Nigels knuckles are all in, heres the tie rod setup,

also moved the brake brackets, and bashed those lips up to avoid rubbing.

New angle !

And some  tyres.

Still waiting on some parts so we can get my car rolling again, Adam’s car is good to go. Can’t wait.

Parts Arrived (pt. 1)

I sent my knuckles over to Nigel in Melbourne just before Christmas to get cut up, they just arrived back today.

I also got a pair of his tie rod spacers, the knuckles and the spacers both look awesome, thanks Nigel.

To save on shipping costs to Aussie, Adam decided to mod the lower arms himself

Heres the bottoms all braced up, and  the lock stops removed.

Can’t wait to drive with them, check out Nigels blog, thanks again man.

Merry Christmas

This is how the cars will look over the christmas/new years break.

Adams off snowboarding on the Blackcomb mountains in Canada , and I’m waiting on a bunch of parts from various places.

See ya

Bumper

*Excuse the rear height

MAX Subframe Solid Riser

All done.

Olly’s Video

Good and Bad

Another track day down in Taupo on sunday.

Adam had an awesome time, tandeming the whole day with Hugo and Mark. Was awesome to watch, can’t wait for some video.

My car had problems with the drivers side axle binding, as we put in a r200 diff before the trackday (had smaller r180 before). Raising the back about 4cm seemed to fix that, but this ment, with the shortened lower arm’s and the camber arms as short as they could go, I had around 0 degrees camber. The car just wouldn’t slide with brand new 235’s and all the rear grip, so I spent most the day clutch kicking round looking silly trying to get it to slide. Oh well, Adams going to shorten some axles for me, so the next track day will be awesome 5 deep tandems hopefully.

More photos from the day: Keisuke, Chris, and Kayle