well once again it has been awhile since i added a new post, I know I said that I would have Part two of the matsuri posts up but I have been lacking motivation for a lot of different things lately. Rest assured though I am in the process of doing it! It is saved as a draft!
You may also notice the different look to the blog! with a new background and a new banner at the top!
this weekend decided weather would prevent something that i had been looking forward to the past month and that was another breakfast out at Lakeside Raceway in Brisbane's north... Saturday it rained from 1-2 AM for the majority of the day and with it promising the same for Sunday I had to unfortunately post pone the Breakfast for a few weeks out of safety concerns.
I know what your thinking.. that i still ran the last Queensland Raceway in the wet.. well it was very wet actually.. but the whole thing behind not allowing lakeside to go ahead is the fact it is a very unforgiving circuit even at low speeds, all it would take would be someone to lock up slightly and cause the person behind them or themself to go into a wall.
So Sunday Rolled around and Blue skies, I was not the most happy person in the world upon waking up to find the sky to be clear. But with reports of mud being on the circuit I am still glad how ever that I had postponed the event! Later in the day the skies did actually open up with a down pour of rain.
Out in the rain
Well I guess I better move onto what happened over the wet weekend.
Saturday saw the Grey 180sx going off to its new home, Sold off as a rolling shell we removed the motor, gearbox, tailshaft and put the 180sx front end back on it and its now gone! so one less car to move around.. for now
Grey car... You wont be missed!!
Sunday since we postponed the Lakeside Breakfast was slated to changing the exhaust on the Silvia as I was recently defected by the boy's in blue for the Kakimoto racing exhaust for sitting to low and some more work to be done to the green car.
Well Silvie being... well Silvie is not ever happy with only one thing being done.. typically. On the way over to Nathans for Breakfast I stopped off at the servo to buy us all some drinks only to come back out and find a small puddle under the back of the car... my first thought was its just some water from the rain dripping off the back of the car... well on closer inspection it turned out to be fuel!
Sighing I made my way over to NKDriftworx HQ timid foot like, last thing I would need is Silvies random flame popping to end her life!! Well removing the Fuel pump inspection plate screamed all the answers the rubber fuel line that connects the fuel pump to the hard lines that run under the car had blew out in quite a big way!
With the Fuel line replaced it was time to move onto swapping the exhausts, I originally had the Jasma exhaust on the car but after copping a big whack while driving along Coronation drive it cracked quite badly so we had taken it off it get fixed.. when the urging mood struck us.. well with a Prod and a $100 ticket from the police for being "to low" Nathan got his farther to take it into his work and weld it up... Col being well... Col it came back all welded up with additional bracing for strength... think normally... the multiply that by about a thousand and you will get the end result! I am now actually kicking myself for not taking a photo. its simply awesome!
Silvie also has always had... well since going back to silvia front end a faded passenger side corner light and it looked off thanks be to Nathan she now has two extremely orange corner lights
Nice and Orange!
No more hideous cannon!!
Well enough of Silvie, Out in the shed we have a bit of a new idea forming for the Green car that saw Matsuri action looking like so
This car has seen its fair share of drifting originally being owned by Ben Anderson who competed in the old Toyo Drift National series then owned by his partner Lauren. The car was then brought by Nathan when it was still running a CA18DET. This car has seen its fair share of motors! from the CA to the SR20DE that came out of Silvie to a SR20DET Blacktop that was in the White 180 and it now has resting between its strut towers another SR20DE but with a twist.. more on that later on!
The Car was also originally a Onevia looking like so
A week or so after that photo was taken it had an unfortunate altercation with an MX-5 (thankfully the Carbon fiber Seibon bonnet was not on it) It was then rebuilt as a Silvia (see photo above)
well now its going back to being a Onevia and with a new colour!
Onevia Reincarnate
Now I mentioned that it now has another SR20DE N/a under the bonnet but with a twist.. well have a look for yourself
I will be doing a full write up on it once its nearing or complete so stay tuned!!
But for now I will leave you with this video of how it sounds... with no exhaust beyond the extractors
Take care my friends
Bev!
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