Remember how a few days ago I said I wasn’t sure whether to fit that JENESIS rear wing or not?

Sweet deal.

well, I think I’ve been pretty much convinced. (thanks to szymonsta from the JNC forums for the photo)

Trackday!

September 3, 2009

The laser pointer of DOOM survives yet another flogging around Taupo, this time in absurdly wet conditions. No heat in the slicks + no traction + no weight in the rear + nosewheel drive = frantic countersteering antics: next time, I’m taping my hand to the wheel a la gumtape deathmatch styles…

definitely time for a new turbo though!

Faster than the speed of light!

So, any plans for another FLAWLESS trackday before year’s end?

Spotted

September 3, 2009

This is Invercargill afterall, had to throw up the typical car I remember seeing cruising around in my day;

bogan_falcon

-Michael

Max Power!

September 2, 2009

Daihatsu Max, that is.

So, as I used that creepy new twitter application to indicate earlier in the weekend I checked out a 1974 Daihatsu Max which was located in a town three quarters of an hour drive away.  It was a fine enough day and I’d spent a good while hacking at my C110 so it was a nice relaxing drive in the lazy jacked diseasel cruiser that is my D21 Terrano.

I had stumbled upon said Max on trademe.co.nz some days earlier, initially listed with no picture, after a day or so a picture had made it’s way on there but being it was what appeared to be a scanned an un-cropped photo it provided no aid in knowing what was what, other than the car was white and at one stage it had been parked on the grass.  Helpful?  You judge…

trademe image.

trademe.co.nz image, highest resolution

Having made vague arrangements to days previous and then having earlier to confirm location and residence I arrived at my destination mid afternoon and was ushered around the corner to find…  (more…)

Caution: may contain spoiler

September 1, 2009

Once upon a time there was this website called Yahoo! Auctions Japan, where items of much merriment and joy could be bought and sold amongst mortal men.

On this website there happened to be a DR30 Skyline ducktail spoiler for sale, of the kind made by a company known as JENESIS.

Dhoooo

And Ed saw this spoiler, and deemed it worthy of purchasing, because impulse buying is what he does best.

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