Last Friday night we set up the Zen stand at round 2 of the Hi-Tec Oils Figure-8 Drift Series. ‘All Stars Street 50″ provided the crowd with a diverse selection of cars to check out during the dinner break (drifters need to eat too you know) and despite the cold weather we had a great night watching the drift action on the Figure-8/peanut track at Sydney Motorsport Park.
More pics: http://zengarage.com.au/2013/08/round-2-hi-tec-oils-figure-8-drift-series/
I bought a 2nd hand MX-5 Mania intake (same as on my old NA8C) so I had to drill a big hole in the firewall. Red marks the pilot hole (which was existing).
A cordless drill was never going to cut it, so we whipped out the heavy artillery!
Intake installed and a simple bracket made up to help it stay in place.
Zi had a load of Road&ster mags which I’ve stolen for some light bedside reading (probably NOT a great idea!).
Day off yesterday so I hung out at JDMyard all day and worked on the MX-5. More detailed updates on my build thread on JDMST: http://forum.jdmstyletuning.com/showthread.php?56475-Justin-Fox-s-2nd-Mazda-MX-5-NA8C-Roadster/page10
View from the grand stand.
Downshift’s 2nd meet was on last Sunday and the sun was glorious! More images on Zen: http://zengarage.com.au/2013/08/downshift-sydney-meet-august-2013
Felix and Di’s new puppy made a surprise visit to Zen last Saturday. He’s so cute! More pics: http://zengarage.com.au/2013/08/pics-dent-hero-dent-removal-day-10/
I’d happily own any of these!
997 Turbo PDK Motor in the engine room.
Tour of the parts room.
Serg and I spent half the day at Porsche Centre Willoughby on Tuesday. They inspected his Porsche Boxster S and we got the grand tour too. Full write-up on Zen: http://zengarage.com.au/2013/08/porschecentrewilloughby
My job is…
I work at Zen Garage and I am the brand manager.
I would describe my job as…
An amalgamation of passion related projects. It’s taken me many years to pull it off, but I’ve finally managed to combine all my passions; bikes, cars, design, fashion, music, photography and art into the one project which is Zen Garage. Being the brand manager allows me to curate and promote whatever it is I’m into at the moment, without feeling unnecessary internal or external pressures to promote things that I’m not into right now. This puts me in a constant state of Zen!
I’m inspired by…
For a long time I tried to only take inspiration from family and my past. I figured that I was the only me in the world, so as long as I took inspiration from myself, my past, then whatever I create would be original and true. I’ve eased up a lot of the years though and I now very happily take inspiration from popular culture, especially many grass roots sub cultures where you find individuals doing what they’re doing because they totally love what they do.
The best part of my job is…
I’m my own boss and I’m free to push whatever it is my heart is into, seeing others get into the stuff I’m into makes me happy. I’ve got great business partners who motivate, support and inspire me and I’m always meeting new like-minded people through running our Leichhardt store and events.
Dat familiar ISMR car park.
OK so last week there was a puddle of green coolant under the car. I couldn’t locate the exact source of the problem so I topped up with water and drove straight to Indy’s hoping it was just a split hose (fingers were crossed!). Turns out it was my N1 water pump. Strange right?! Anyways, it’s been replaced with another N1 pump and whilst the car was at IS Motor Racing I thought I’d get Indy to re-tune the car.
He’s advanced the timing a bit (I really want that mid-range power back) and whilst we’ve lost 4kw or so boost is kicking in from 3000rpm now instead of 4000. Was a bit wet out today so looking forward to some dry weather (then it’s time for new tyres as these are so so old).
We took 3 girls, all 3 EVO owners, out on a Nasho run. Aleks Brajic was there to snap some epic pics. All the photos on Zen.
OFIM have put this awesome video together of last weekend’s Fuel 4 Charity car show. More images on their blog: http://ofim.com.au/2013/07/30/fuel-4-charity/
