Category Archives: Cars

I always pass these guys whenever I hit the M4 but I’ve never stopped to have a look. I always gawk too as there’s always some cars of interest there.

Caldinas. Rare. I find them interesting.

I’ve been tempted to buy a TME again. This silver one was about as clean as they get. 40,000km’s with log books to prove it.

All sorts of goodies in this room. Wheels (spot the BBS’ off an 8 MR), seats, all for sale.

Sleeping in another secured space, this 35.

Loved this sign, had a very Japanese feel to it.

If you’re going to bring cars in from Japan, you might as well stuff them with parts too right?! So many yummy little goodies.

Sergio and I dropped in to visit Joe at Xtreme Motorsports last night. As expected, he had some impressive cars for sale and my hunch that he was a top bloke (after meeting him briefly at Showcased a few weeks ago) was spot on. What a champ, massive heart. We were there to talk community and ALL STARS. More news as it comes! In the meantime, visit: http://xtrememotorsports.com.au

Images and videos from Showcased are still making their way online… awesome! I particularly like this image of my car taken by Sam from streetfans.net

Honda boys!

Jings DC5R.

What a monster.

As long as I’ve known Zi, he’s always into something new. Right now it’s coffee.

Gloria Zi’s. Impressive!

Specific to BNR32.

The unit.

I’ve left the old G-Sensor unit in there for now, it’s the big gold box.

Next up – got to get to those leaky seals.

My G-Sensor died a while back. The last few times I drove the car it’s been in rear wheel drive only mode (spinning the wheels hard in 2nd = shit my pants moments).

I did some research and found a few people have had their g-sensors die on them. Nissan wants over $1,000 for a replacement unit so many have found ways to fix their existing units but after a tip-off from Xiao, a mate of mine, I ordered a Do-Luck Digital G-Sensor unit from JDMyard which took ages to get here as it’s made to order.

Apparently the increase in sensitivity and reaction rate for this Digital G-Sensor vs. the stock analog unit is 30 times greater than stock. It’s designed to work with sudden acceleration and braking too. IE: once traction breaks this gadget should respond quicker = better handling.

Real muscle. This beast was so loud you couldn’t hear the guy next to you no matter how loud he spoke.

Rare 2-door WRX, so much love.

Yonas’/JDMyard’s supercharge K-swapped EG Civic was perhaps the fastest car on the day.

Dave’s super clean EG Civic, she’s lovely.

For the win indeed.

My DC2R still blows my mind. 177,000kms and still hitting redline like there’s no tomorrow. She did break down though, wouldn’t start from the pits. It turned out to be a loose alternator cable! Phew!

More than a second quicker than my last outing. I’m happy with that.

Yessss I fucking love Private Track Days. All the track time you could possibly want… you could even track from 9AM-5PM and not ever pit if you wanted to! 20 or so cars, at times there’s some battle fun out there with mates, other times it’s just you, out there alone which makes for a perfect opportunity to crack out a fast lap time.

Today we booked Wakefield Park, more affectionately called “wakies” by track whores. The track was slippery for most of the morning as it rained last night. A shame as the EVO Nats were on the weekend just passed (they would have laid some serious rubber on the circuit). There was a great mix of cars, as expected, no accidents (phew) and plenty of fun.

More pics: http://zengarage.com.au/2012/06/private-track-day-2/

Photo by Seb.

Since getting a few bits and pieces done on the DC2R I’m all of a sudden finding myself dedicating a few hours a day googling around for images of other DC2Rs, prowling eBay and classifieds sections of forums for parts and generally speaking; doing my head in.

I haven’t modified anything since the Golf GTI, the DC2R’s been a great daily driver and I’ve done well to avoid going down the (expensive) route of turning it into a track inspired car but yesterday day I committed to installing an intake, headers, high flow cat and cat-back exhaust from JDMyard. Cha-ching, do I really want to be spending all this money on this car?! I thought that if I thought about it too much I wouldn’t end up spending it, so I just made the call.

Later that afternoon on the way home from work I was pulled over by the police for a random breath test. Man, the feeling of being pulled over in a stock car absolutely rocks as I had nothing to fear in regards to defects. I didn’t even need to take my sunnies off, or brown nose Mr. Officer. He checked out my license, I counted to 10 then he wished me a nice day.

When I got home I called Zi to cancel the order I put in for parts. It’s amazing how doing a few little things has given me the mod bug again… must hold it at bay, at least until my Toyota 86 gets here on the 10th of next month!