JDM insertion

Holy blog revival!

Who loves stickers?




I'm sorry, they fell on their side.

Stupid Engines

Highs and lows today. Sideskirts on....HIGH.

SR20 running shitty on 2 or 3 cylinders.....LOW.

I hate engine diagnostics.

Wider

I got one of the overfenders test fitted tonight. I spent about 10 minutes trimming the HUGE lip down on it, the about 2 hours working out how to remove the rear valance [bonded on you BASTARD] and the standard rear bumper [two of the bolts on each side are well hidden!]. Then about 30 mins lining it up and drilling my lovely car :( Oh well, looks wide now! Other side and sideskirts over the weekend I hope if I get time! Then all the scary cutting of metal underneath.

Notice the way the overs cover right down and under the still at the bottom? They fit PERFECT! Yeh, the copy ones that have recently been produced don't do that - they randomly stop just below the body-line. Crap.

I can't wait to get all the metal underneath out of the way so I can sort out ride height and fitment.

Pull up to my bumper baby...

Origin Stylish bumper one fitted! [I have to trim and fit the spare second still]. Only trimming involved was making the openings in the bumper shallower so they cleared the intercooler and piping - fitment around the lights and fenders is awesome!

Excuse the pictures, taken with iPhone rather than fancy camera!

Its actually slightly shallower than my other unknown bumper so it allows me to go lower, hurray!

PS - Yes my bonnet is pissed.

Origin x Supermade x GRD

Origin window spoiler.

Supermade boot lip spoiler [not sitting right yet]

GRD dials.

Front got wide

Had a RARE few hours spare tonight so cracked on with fitting the kit.

Old front wings came off and out came a fair amount of Llandow/Lydden/Norfolk from last year.


New wings went on fairly easily, I've never fitted over fenders/front fenders before so it was a learning experience. I did a better job on the passenger side which I did second so I'm going to go back and tweak the driver's side a bit more - I'm a fussy bugger with panel gaps and the driver's side is a 1 or 2mm too close to the bonnet edge but thats easily remedied.


It wasn't until I parked the car up for the evening that I realised I hadn't done the front-most bolt up on the passenger side so the front is dropping down, as shown in this last picture.

Overall I'm very pleased with the fitment and quality of them! A bit more time and they'll be perfect. I would have had them finished by this evening but my car sprung a fuel leak between the hard-line in the bay and the FPR - it was pissing EVERYWHERE! So I had to spend ages fixing that - its OK for now but I really need to source a new section of fuel line.

I also offered the rear fenders up but couldn't do much because I really need the car on the ramp with wheels off to crack on with them. The rear lip on them is HUGE though so needs trimming right down for the wheel fitment I want. The car is going to look so wide from the back with the rear fenders I have and a fairly subtle rear bumper and skirts.:nod:

Hopefully more to come tommorrow evening!

Christmas Day

Christmas Day was moved in 2009 to 23rd June. Well, it was in my world anyway as it was the day when I FINALLY, after 8 months or so of waiting, got to collect my stuff from Japan.

Bright and breezy I jumped in the car and made the 45 minute journey down the A1 from Peterborough to St Neots to pick up the hire van. I then started the LONG and BORING journey down the A1, M25 and the seemingly endless trip across the country on the M4 to Ninja Tune Factory in Newport, South Wales - where my stuff was being stored.

Three and something hours later I arrive in Newport at NTF's new workshop to be greeted by Lionel, owner of NTF and Julian from Severnside/Driving Sports Pro.

Lionel was in the process of tweaking the tuned SR for this weekend's EDC round at Brands Hatch.

Julian is also sponsored by Origin so the car wears full Origin Agressive aero and Type-II fenders all round. It also rocks a carbon D-Max bonnet, B's Factory spoiler, RYO exhaust and Work XD9s. No fake parts here.

Interior is function-based. A pair of red Bride recliners occupy the BRIGHT red cabin - Kawabata from Driving Sports Japan mixes the colour himself and keeps the ingredients top secret!

The engine is a stroked 2.1 SR fully built with a Neprec head and TD06-25g turbo. It was originally built for drag running 650bhp but has been de-tuned for drift to just 500bhp. Is that all?!

You may notice the drawing on the dash of the gear layout. Naturally this sort of power would make cheese of a standard SR gearbox so this car runs a Trust/Greddy dogbox. £5k + VAT to you or I.

The PS13 wasn't the only nice metal at NTF - this AE86 runs a high compression turbo'd 4AG. You may recognise this car from AE86 battle in the Touge Heroes' DVD.

Dan Joyce from Dirty Sanchez' Datsun pick-up was also at NTF getting an engine transplant - look forward to seeing this done!

So after nosing around and chatting for a while I loaded the van up with my stuff and set off home.

Just a few pictures of my stuff - two Origin Stylish front bumpers, just incase I break one.

Origin Type-II +50mm fenders, same as Julian's car.

Origin DNA02 wheels - 17x9.5+15. I've decided to order some 18"s of the same size to run a 17/18 stagger.

So this is how my spare room looks now - much to the disapproval of Naomi, my understanding better half! My full order included -

• Origin Stylish full aero
• Origin Stylish front bumper spare
• Origin Type-I front fenders
• Origin Type-II rear fenders
• Origin window spoiler
• Supermade boot lip spoiler
• 8 x 17x9.5+15 Origin DNA02 wheels in white
• Work Rezax as pictured below

These were a nice suprise from the shipment. I bought them unseen from Yahoo Auctions Japan and when they arrived they turned out to be near MINT, plus they had decent tread on the tyres!

Thats a 245 on the right on the 350Z! On the left is one of the 18x12.5J rear wheels with a 275 streeeetched on!

These are for sale for SERIOUS interested parties. No low-ball offers. The specs are -

18x11J+13 - 255's front

18x12.5J+19 - 275's rear

E-Mail me for more details.

BIG thankyou to Origin Japan for their help and SKAY Japan for sorting out the shipping for me and their continued support. Thank you to Julian at Severnside for shipping and Lionel at NTF for storage too!

I can crack on with fitting my parts now - stay tuned!

Exciting car project!

Supermade Instant Gentleman spoiler arrived - Beagle stamp of approval.

Check this kit out - its hot! Mighty Boy.

Container from Japan

It has finally arrived. 8 months late, but its here. I have on board -

1 x Full Origin Stylish kit
1 x pair Origin Type I front fenders
1 x pair Origin Type II rear fenders
1 x Origin window spoiler
1 x spare Origin Stylish front bumper
8 x Origin DNA02 wheels, white 17x9.5+15
4 x Work Rezax 18x11/18x12.5 wheels

and I have a Supermade rear boot spoiler sat at the local Parcel Force depot too.

I'm going to order 4 more DNA02 wheels but in 18x9.5+12 so I can run a 17/18 stagger, then I'll sell on 4 of the 17s.

Picture as soon as I collect the stuff from Ninja Tune Factory in Bristol.

Flush.

Happy. Thats with 3mm front and 5mm rear spacers. Needs smaller tyres - 225 front and 35 profile maybe?

CAR LOOKS HIGH NOW.

Someone left these.....

In my kitchen.

Work Euroline.

18x9 +7
18x10 +4.

What should I do with these?

Shiny.

Its getting there.

Stickers. We love them.

Stickertune and dogbox!

Har har!

Yes!

Finally got some work done on the S13. New rear subframe with Japspeed alloy solid bushes on. Driftworks camber arms on, Japspeed toe arms on, polybushed the entire rear end too sooooooo should be nice and positive to drive now rather than all the sloppy standard HICAS bollocks.

Interior update coming soon!

Ideas

Its kind of 'out there', but I'm thinking about going BRIGHT.

Let me know what you think.

2009 Sponsors

OK I've been holding off confirming this until everything was definate and settled, which it is now.

I am VERY pleased to announce that I now have some amazing backing for 2009. I will be driving under the banner of Team Origin Skay.

Thankyou very much to Skay Japan Ltd/Skay Drift and Origin Japan for working with me so far and I'm looking forward to an exciting year together!

I also have to say thankyou to Julian at Severnside Imports for his help in bringing all the goodies over from Japan.

Sexy Gifts

2009 is all about Couture-drift. So I'm starting it out with this shift-boot from Lisa @ justshiftboots.com - catch her on Zilvia.net and order one!



New cranks arrived today from CyclesportUK - Demolition Medial with Mid BB. Mmmm, they lite!

Strip Tease PS13

Pulled the car into the workshop to start doing a few bits to it. Mostly need to get the new dashboard in and get the interior painted.

Sticker-tune - limited run sparkley red Jimmy-Up. Cheers Mike Mancuso from JimmyUp.

Old dash out.

I also removed the loom for the climate control to chop it up and extenderate it at home for the relocation in the armrest. No pictures, wires aren't sexy.

I try and only photograph sexy stuff. That is all.