Look at that huh?
More of this please!
Friday, 23 September 2011
Quiet on the Western Front
What's up everyone?
It's been all quiet on this end of things; putting my head down as I head into the business end of my university year then I'm off to Japan! Woo! I'm also undecided if I want to go NZHondas North Island Mega Meet on the 4th Nov - I'm unsure if my bank account will be very friendly for all those Japanese goodies I'll be purchasing. Rest assured, anything cool will be posted on my FB page, so keep an eye on that!
I'm hoping the weather is as stunning as it is now in Wellington, if this is anything to go by, summer will be a scorcher!!
Look at that huh?
More of this please!
Look at that huh?
More of this please!
Wednesday, 7 September 2011
Japan
I shall be heading over to Japan over the summer months for a wee while and I really have no idea where I should be looking - where's good and what should I buy? Bare in mind, I don't have a huge amount of space
Want
Want
Sunday, 4 September 2011
The Inaugural Photoshoot
This year, Wellington has had its share of extreme weather - today being no different. It was a warm, breezy Spring day and I've (hastily) called for some friends to come together for a nice little photoshoot and a cruise afterwards. Yes, this is Green Sticker Society, and yes we got someone with a Green sticker.
It was unfortunate and badly timed. However, it is simply life and one can learn from their mistakes (like putting their seatbelt on).
Without further adieu, I shall present some pictures. For full resolution, click on any photo or HERE.
Mat's very, very clean example of a 180SX. Somewhat jealous of his car.
Want that CF centre garnish...
However, I have a front lip :P
Dom's S15 - nice and tidy. Subtle bits and bobs.
Flatpeak spoiler and D-max tail lights. Choice.
Green stickered car in question - Nimesh's S13. Daily driven at this height. Like a boss
Can you say flush?
Interior to die for. This is what I have hopefully waiting for me in the near future, my Bride fabric arrived in the country in the last few days. I was quite stoked about that, hopefully I can find someone to cut and fit it for me.
Mr. RKLESS - once again, daily driven at this height and never afraid of a bit of RKLESS driving.
Tough.
Realising the amount of S-chassis win we had, I sought to line us all up. We almost had the order right...
Credit must be given to James "AE86" Blance also (check out his cool blog/build thread here) for these pics whilst I was moving cars and helping set up
I look REAL mad up in hurr.
Real retard.
As the sun dropped lower, we sought for warmth and a cruise!
There's not much to say as the pictures say it all. Thanks for all who turned up and made it a good day. I had fun shooting cars, and I hope for the next round for newer, fresher and doper cars than ever. Look forward to seeing you all next time
Yemo.
It was unfortunate and badly timed. However, it is simply life and one can learn from their mistakes (like putting their seatbelt on).
Without further adieu, I shall present some pictures. For full resolution, click on any photo or HERE.
Mat's very, very clean example of a 180SX. Somewhat jealous of his car.
Want that CF centre garnish...
However, I have a front lip :P
Dom's S15 - nice and tidy. Subtle bits and bobs.
Flatpeak spoiler and D-max tail lights. Choice.
Green stickered car in question - Nimesh's S13. Daily driven at this height. Like a boss
Can you say flush?
Interior to die for. This is what I have hopefully waiting for me in the near future, my Bride fabric arrived in the country in the last few days. I was quite stoked about that, hopefully I can find someone to cut and fit it for me.
Mr. RKLESS - once again, daily driven at this height and never afraid of a bit of RKLESS driving.
Tough.
Realising the amount of S-chassis win we had, I sought to line us all up. We almost had the order right...
Credit must be given to James "AE86" Blance also (check out his cool blog/build thread here) for these pics whilst I was moving cars and helping set up
I look REAL mad up in hurr.
Real retard.
As the sun dropped lower, we sought for warmth and a cruise!
There's not much to say as the pictures say it all. Thanks for all who turned up and made it a good day. I had fun shooting cars, and I hope for the next round for newer, fresher and doper cars than ever. Look forward to seeing you all next time
Yemo.
Saturday, 3 September 2011
Mini-meet 1st Sept
Gathering on a still (very rare for Wellington) Thursday night amongst friends; nice cars were the order for the day. I naturally didn't clean my car because I keep forgetting to and find myself not wanting to either especially at 4pm in the afternoon when you remember you're meant to be going to a meet that night.
Facelift Integra, hard to come by with the bugeye.
Balla status
Monday, 29 August 2011
Manfeild: My first outing
For someone who writes a blog (at least tries to), one would think that they would at least be knowledgeable and understanding of what they are writing or talking about and have had at least enough experience in that hobby to be able to say "yep, I've done that". The weekend that has just passed, I have broken my track virginity, and set myself loose to have some fun and just get some seat time.
However, my efforts were cut short early, suffering from (at the time of writing this post) coil pack failure on one of the four. I sounded like a tractor/Subaru on boost as I was choking at 5000rpm. This forced me to retire mid day despite only having one full session (running a 1:35 for my second lap on the track as my best), then two limped sessions just to see if my problem was going to improve.
Full set of day's photos can be found here. A big thanks must go out to Lauren, my lovely girlfriend, for taking majority of the photos. Although watermarked as mine, I'll make sure she gets credit for the photos that she took, which were all very good!
Waiting for scruntineering - passed easy!
The sound of it coming on boost and with the external wastegate open, it was glorious.
V8 MX8 - who can say no? End of the day, he put on his slicks and blew past some serious cars.
Want.
Tony's f***ing quick EF Civic. He has been racing this track since a very young age, and knows it like the back of his hand.
Some of the local drifters hitting up a grip event with the closure of Slipway in Wellington still being an issue. Not to say no drifting occurred on track that day...
This car doesn't get to run more than one, not even finishing his lap. Blowing his gearbox to smithereens!
This was serious. The sound of it flying past you at 200kph+ is something you don't forget quickly.
Notice the midmount steering column. This was loud too, I've never seen such an incredible car, although, it does race in GTNZ.
The calm before the storm.
First proper run of the day.
By far the loudest car out there, this flying brick was not to be sneezed at. Running very good times (albeit very noisily) throughout the day.
Lining up!
View from the front. My friend Andrew in the Civic ran blistering times (1:25~); for someone who's been on Manfeild once prior, that is very, very impressive.
Mmmm...
And away I go!
I am a fan of this S13, have seen it another photoshoot, it is a drift weapon but driver has skill and held his own out there.
Amazing cars with the Evo was very quick around the track
Another shot of the Porsche as it was rolling out of it's pit after being set up on the day.
Nom
This ran in the Rookie class with me as well, from what I heard, it was using the track time as teething time. I found his build on oldschool - Build thread
Would hate to think how cold that must be. Then again, the adrenaline rush that one would get from driving that! Even I was all smiles behind my helmet as I was blasting off around the track.
Andrew blasting ahead, blitzing a turbo R33 along the way during the day! Well done man.
Photo of Tony and his EF again. Nom.
Be sure to check out my friend Lawrence and his photos here, he covers lots of car related events, including Manfeild. Hopefully, I'll be back out there soon!
Yemo
However, my efforts were cut short early, suffering from (at the time of writing this post) coil pack failure on one of the four. I sounded like a tractor/Subaru on boost as I was choking at 5000rpm. This forced me to retire mid day despite only having one full session (running a 1:35 for my second lap on the track as my best), then two limped sessions just to see if my problem was going to improve.
Full set of day's photos can be found here. A big thanks must go out to Lauren, my lovely girlfriend, for taking majority of the photos. Although watermarked as mine, I'll make sure she gets credit for the photos that she took, which were all very good!
Waiting for scruntineering - passed easy!
The sound of it coming on boost and with the external wastegate open, it was glorious.
V8 MX8 - who can say no? End of the day, he put on his slicks and blew past some serious cars.
Want.
Tony's f***ing quick EF Civic. He has been racing this track since a very young age, and knows it like the back of his hand.
Some of the local drifters hitting up a grip event with the closure of Slipway in Wellington still being an issue. Not to say no drifting occurred on track that day...
This car doesn't get to run more than one, not even finishing his lap. Blowing his gearbox to smithereens!
This was serious. The sound of it flying past you at 200kph+ is something you don't forget quickly.
Notice the midmount steering column. This was loud too, I've never seen such an incredible car, although, it does race in GTNZ.
The calm before the storm.
First proper run of the day.
By far the loudest car out there, this flying brick was not to be sneezed at. Running very good times (albeit very noisily) throughout the day.
Lining up!
View from the front. My friend Andrew in the Civic ran blistering times (1:25~); for someone who's been on Manfeild once prior, that is very, very impressive.
Mmmm...
And away I go!
I am a fan of this S13, have seen it another photoshoot, it is a drift weapon but driver has skill and held his own out there.
Amazing cars with the Evo was very quick around the track
Another shot of the Porsche as it was rolling out of it's pit after being set up on the day.
Nom
This ran in the Rookie class with me as well, from what I heard, it was using the track time as teething time. I found his build on oldschool - Build thread
Would hate to think how cold that must be. Then again, the adrenaline rush that one would get from driving that! Even I was all smiles behind my helmet as I was blasting off around the track.
Andrew blasting ahead, blitzing a turbo R33 along the way during the day! Well done man.
Photo of Tony and his EF again. Nom.
Be sure to check out my friend Lawrence and his photos here, he covers lots of car related events, including Manfeild. Hopefully, I'll be back out there soon!
Yemo
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