Category Archives: Cars

Yesterday I caught up with Chris who’s been working in Vanuatu. I hadn’t seen him in ages (a year or more maybe) and I’ve only just caught him as he’s about to leave for Vanuatu again this Friday.

I got a bit of a shock when I went outside and saw his new car. He just picked this up yesterday!

He had the exact same plates on his S2000 so that confused me as the plates were the first detail I saw. I then realised it wasn’t an M3, nor a 335i but a 135i! I then got even more confused: Chris aren’t you living and working in Vanuatu?!

Strange little car. Strange lines on the outside and inside. Car feels very firm and solid though, even at 3000rpm you can feel that it’s a very powerful and fast car. Chris drove it in Auto. The car felt a lot like an automatic, not a clutchless manual. I got Chris to shift down a few gears with his paddle shifters and it didn’t sound like it rev matched (so it might just be a full automatic gearbox?).

Cars aside, the real big news is that Chris and his wife are expecting! He’s excited which in turn made me excited for him!

MJ takes a rad photo. Here are a few pics he took of the golf yesterday:

More here

Private track day at Wakefield yesterday. Almost destroyed me as I was feeling pretty fat and tired from the Melbourne trip! (we only got back the night before!).

The drive was painful but hey, cruise control (can’t complain!). This time around I had my seats in (still no harnesses though) and my new Brembo front brakes too.

I’m now 1 second faster. Man I hate this track so much it pisses me off to no end. I’m either going in too hot or not carrying enough speed because I’m braking too hard. Grrrr!

Yonas and Zi were there. I tried to keep up with Yonas, impossible!

This FD was on the track. Surprised me as I thought it was all show but damn it’s fast, sounds insane and respect for tracking with those massive SSR’s too!

Zi’s new company car. Mods should make their way onto the car soon.

George from Slippery Little Suckers came along for the day. I’m not sure he had too much fun in his Statesman though. Lack of headroom meant that he had to bend over as his helmet was hitting his roof all day!

A lot more pics here.

Dropped in to JDMyard yesterday. Zi has some new wheels in stock and he wanted to make sure they fit on the Golf (which they did!). Here are a few pics:

Andy was there too which was cool, hadn’t seen him in aaaages.

Video by 5hu7o

Last month’s meet captured on video! Christina makes an appearance in the middle and the clip ends with us leaving in the GT-R :)

Last night a fair few VWGolf.net.au members braved the cold and rain and headed out to KK’s.

Warm doughnuts, mmm.

It was too early to go home for some, and of-course we wanted a better look at some of the cars so a few of us cruised over to Fox.

More photos from the night here.

Lucky cat was watching over us tonight.

Seats are IN!!!

They feel sooo good. If anything I might lower them (I can go one notch lower on the side mounts). Better pics tomorrow!

EDIT – A few more pics of the seats in daylight:

Excuse the crappy shot!

Since this photo I’ve dropped the seats one notch down at the front (you can make out 3 holes in the photo) and the back of the side mounts and I’m sitting a lot lower now which feels a lot better (to me).

View from the boot. Those huge stickers are FIA stickers which I’ll leave on for now.

Today I was booked in at TOP-ONE to get a few things done.

– New Forge water bottle reservoir from Ian at Rennenhaus was fitted.
– Rear wheel well carpet put back in as the noise that the little rocks my tyres were picking up was giving me the shits.
– UNIbrace UB installed.
– Eurospec Auto titanium exhaust tips installed.
– Recaro pole positions.

Everything went well except for the Recaro seat install. I’m getting the seat bases modified so I’ll have to wait a little longer to get the seats in but for now here are some progress pics!

Milltek tips came off (excuse the filthy car!).

Ti tips went on.

Flimsy old bracing came off.

UNIbrace UB went on.

Also spotted this NSX at the workshop. Not how I’d do it, but I have a thing for NSX’s (I’m always checking them out on carsales!).