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Miles week 3

Posted on 19 August, 2011 by Justin Fox


Miles had his eyes wide open today!


Everybody’s favorite new little man. :)

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AeroCatch pins for the MKV

Posted on 19 August, 2011 by Justin Fox

Finally twisted Dedy’s arm enough to get him to install my AeroCatch bonnet pins. A very fussy job in comparison to more conventional bonnet pins as the bonnet surface isn’t completely flat and you’ve got to cut the shape out of the bonnet (as opposed to simply drilling a hole in it). Perfect job though (as expected from Dedy and team at Top One Auto).

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Warehouse Space #2

Posted on 18 August, 2011 by Justin Fox

The boys have worked hard on the figures for the new offline forum space/gallery/business and unfortunately the 3 year projection wasn’t looking too good, mainly because the rental on the last space was just way too much.

We spent a day looking at many smaller spaces in and around Alexandria a few weeks ago, nothing was quite right. It seemed like all the modern, small 150-200sqm warehouse spaces lacked character, and their office spaces upstairs were way too separated from the loading dock/open space downstairs but today Sean found a ripper in Leichhardt.

The warehouse is right next door to a coffee shop and only a block away from Norton St. We checked it out this afternoon, the vibe of the area is great, kids, mothers, grungey but safe. The space itself needs a lot of work (we doubt anyone has been using it for years) but it’s got bucketloads of character and potential.

We’re excited, this could be the one?

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Wheel Alignment @ Spinning Wheel

Posted on 18 August, 2011 by Justin Fox


SUGA @ Spinning Wheel Tyres for a wheel alignment.


My mate Dave teed up alignment for his EG Civic just before us, unfortunately Stuart noticed a problem with the rear bushes so Dave opted to postpone the alignment until he sorts out some new bits.


Spinning Wheel is right around the corner from Danks St. so while Stuart was working on SUGA we dropped in to Fratelli Fresh for a feed.


Food was great as usual. Beer was crispy & refreshing.

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A Type Of Show

Posted on 17 August, 2011 by Justin Fox


The massive crowd sprawling out of the gallery onto Oxford St.


It took us almost an hour to get inside to have a look.


My name on the window outside.


Peeking in from the outside. Almost inside.


My piece (my Bike T) stood out a little as it was displayed up high (which made it easy to spot) and it was a T-Shirt and not a print. Apparently my plaque had $30 as the price for the “artwork”. Would have been cooler if they went for my suggestion of “gold coin donation!”.


One of many awesome pieces on show.

Christina came along to support me as I had a piece in “A Type Of Show” at kind of gallery on Oxford St. Darlinghurst. The opening was tonight and despite the rain it seemed like every creative in Sydney was there. In fact it was so packed that we couldn’t get in for an hour! Luckily we had friends outside.

When we did finally get in to have a look there just wasn’t enough space and air inside to really appreciate the amazing work on show. If you missed it (or even if you were there!) I’d highly recommend going back tomorrow to check it all out properly. I’m still in awe that Luca, who put the show together, invited me to contribute a piece. I’m chuffed!

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Muum Maam

Posted on 17 August, 2011 by Justin Fox


Muum Maam rolls – pork, tofu, bean sprouts, shitake and cucumber.


Cripsy Egg Noodles – Northern style noodles with slow braised red beef curry.

Suga and I grabbed a quick dinner at Muum Maam tonight. Holt Street in Surry Hills is now lined with new restaurants, all sporting similar designed signs outside. Inside there was a large share table which reminded me a lot of Sailors Thai at The Rocks, but since we were early (it was pretty empty) we got our own little 2 seater table.

We only ordered 2 dishes as we were in a bit of a rush to get to a show, the rolls for entree and the crispy noodles as a main, but both were great, the noodles especially yummy (very tender beef curry was underneath the noodles and the dish also came with a plate of extra condiments. Very nice! Will definitely be back for more!

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El Jannah Charcoal Chicken

Posted on 16 August, 2011 by Justin Fox


Hangin’ out West.


Worth the trek for this, the best Garlic Sauce in Sydney.


Charcoal Chicken was really tender tonight, what a feast!


We left no room for sweet treats from Abla’s. Better luck next time!

It’s been many months since I first ate at El Jannah Charcoal Chicken with the BMU boys and I’d been excited about it all day. Andy came and picked me up at 6PM, traffic wasn’t as bad as we thought it was going to be but it still took us an hour to get out west.

For $20 you get more food than you can eat but I was only there for the garlic sauce. I’d happily drive an hour out just to have that sauce with chips…SO DAMN GOOD! We stuffed ourselves, had plenty of laughs and afterwards we thought we’d check out Abla’s Patisserie which everyone that loves El Jannah seems to rave about. What a shop! I’ve never ever seen more variations of backlava in my life. Unfortunately all of us were way too stuffed to even think about buying some. Next time we’ll eat less at El Jannah’s and save some room for cake + coffee for sure.

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Same same

Posted on 15 August, 2011 by Justin Fox


Ferrari 458 dash vs Honda’s new CR-Z dash.

I was just browsing the interior thread on JDMST, and did some googling, then I found this striking similarity and decided to photoshop both of the dashes next to each other in the same scale. Both look ugly as hell to me (spaceships!) but tut tut Honda. You were innovators once!

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Lexus LFA

Posted on 15 August, 2011 by Justin Fox


At Eastern Creek today. First I heard it (sounds like an F1 car). Then I saw it, gahhhhh so hot.


Neil Bates was at the wheel giving Lexus owners happy laps.


The closest I got to it was touching these wheels. Damn it!

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Yokohama C.drive2 Drive Experience

Posted on 15 August, 2011 by Justin Fox


My pass.


I was given a pen and paper for my opinions on the new C.drive2 tyre.


We were fed a healthy lunch too.


After lunch and a short introductory talk we were broken up into groups to test the new tyre.


I was with the go2space guys and we were sent off to the peanut track. At this stage we were more distracted by the LFA on the main circuit (more on that later!). Hard to focus on 2 Hyundai’s when a super car is flying through turn 1!


Ian was our instructor. $10/cone you knock over. After my run I owed him $30.


That’s me in the blue car. The blue car was fitted with the C.drive2, the red car had OEM tyres.


We then hit the skid pan for slalom + a big circle exercise too (always fun).

I got an invite from Yokohama to attend one of their tyre test days. Preliminary for their dealer network but they had room for more and I was more than happy to check it out. There were 3 exercises to do in the cars, each involved 2 cars: One with the new Yokohama C.drive2 tyre (launching soon) and one with the standard OE tyres the car came with. The peanut track was used to test the cars out in some snaky figure eights in the dry and the skid pan was used to do a wet slalom, as well as a large circle where an instructor in the C.drive2 fitted car would try to catch the gap between you in the car with OE tyres (happy to say I managed to keep my distance from the guy albeit I had a lot more work to do with the steering wheel and accelerator inputs!).

I thought the big circle test was the best test of the lot as the difference between the C.drive2’s and the OE tyre were night and day. The OE tyre was squealing at all times and traction control would kick in if you tried too hard. Had to do a lot of steering to keep the speed up too but in the C.drive2 there was no squealing, you could almost just hold the wheel in the one spot and not once did traction control kick in either. Impressive.

Whilst the C.Drive was once marketed as more of a performance tyre (I had them on my MX-5 once and they were a blast on the race track, in fact in this video Canto is driving my car on C.Drives), but today the C.drive2 is marketed as an everyday tyre which focusses on safety. I thought it was amazing in the wet and it’s definitely a tyre I’d be happy to see my Mum and sister driving on.

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