And to answer the unasked question: 3 degrees negative camber, thank you very much. Though I must admit, it’s far from practical on the average New Zealand road.

September 1st, 2010 | Category: Authors Cars, Random Retro Snap | Comments (3)

Firstly, I apologise for the lack of updates, I had a lot of time invested in trying to get a job at the local Honda dealership.  Unfortunately after two interviews they found another more worthy of the position.  Both depressing and annoying but that’s how things roll.  Speaking of things that roll though.  A car [...]

August 31st, 2010 | Category: Authors Cars | Leave a comment

This little kamera thing on my iph-phod is starting to come in useful! First run of squid in 3 months; had to put in 95 out of an old jerry can I had lying around and didn’t want to rev it due to the oil pump making a horrendous whining noise. I’m pretty sure the [...]

August 23rd, 2010 | Category: Authors Cars, Retro Videos | Leave a comment

I took this photo the other night as a snapshot of the current state of my projects. It’s shows all but the S21 Prince which is stored elsewhere.   Now if only I had the cash to finish these damn things off! -Michael

August 13th, 2010 | Category: Authors Cars, Random Retro Snap | Comments (2)

Once again Taupo put on some magnificent weather for the RR invitational trackday this past Saturday… (cue Tui ad). OS regulars Philip Weston LMVD, Tomstament and myself were fortunate enough to attend, with Phil the only one willing to brave the elements and partake in a full day of unintentional D1s around the extremely wet [...]

August 10th, 2010 | Category: Authors Cars, Events | Comments (2)

The savanna banana is finally road legal after nearly two years of delays and frustration. I guess being patient really did pay off, as experiencing the refined performance of the 12A “Impact Turbo” never fails to put a massive grin on my face. now I know why people constantly rave on about the incredible sorcery [...]

July 20th, 2010 | Category: Authors Cars, Random Retro Snap | Comments (1)

I picked these wheels up off trademe.co.nz a few weeks back and initially tried them on the back, but neglected to take any photos, so with a clear day today I figured I would try them on the front and make the effort to document it. They’re 14×7 ROH Steels with alloy centres.  The centres [...]

July 4th, 2010 | Category: Authors Cars, Random Retro Snap | Leave a comment

I’ll let the photos do the explaining: One step closer to fitting the Watanabes, although I’m strangely enamored by the standard DR30 “telephone” wheels that I could almost be tempted to leave them on the car. The only thing stopping me from doing so is the fact that all four tyres happen to be different [...]

June 28th, 2010 | Category: Authors Cars | Comments (4)

With the latest addition I mentioned the other day, my new rear spoiler, I am left with only a replica 110GT-R grille to get.  My modified standard grille makes do for the time being but as with the previous rear spoiler, the differences between the actual look and something “close” are quite large.   Given I [...]

June 9th, 2010 | Category: 110-Project, Authors Cars, Inspiration, YAJ - Yahoo! Auctions Japan, http://www.hayatonka.com/ | Comments (3)