Kristens new Cefiro, is that Laurel parts!?!?!?!

Your asking doesnt she have a mint black s13? why yes she does but Kristen has always wanted a four-door and Nissan has a whole range of awesome looking four-doors!!!

Some Examples:

C33 Laurel

R32 Skyline Four door

A31 Cefiro

That's just to mention a few so when we came across a straight almost mint A31 shell we couldn't just let it go! Nathan had a call from Shingo at A1 Nissan wrecking about this shell sitting out Ipswich so he got the guys number and gave him a call and next thing we all went out to have a gander.

The car had been sitting for about three years doing nothing but storing parts for the owners S13 project, Turns out it was an original RB25DE Manual Autech in Autech blue some may remember it having the plates 01TAXI (D1 Taxi) on it.

The Shell came with a whole bunch of parts including the original Autech front bar, Carbon fiber bonnet, all the interior while dirty in rather good nick so nothing a good cleaning wouldn't fix.

Only thing is it wasnt rolling as it had no crossmember, steering rack, rear subframe in it. so the night before we went to pick it up we assembled a front end and rear end so we could pull it up onto the car trailer and tow it away.

We arrived out there in the afternoon due to me having my nieces 9th birthday party in the morning (waiting on me geeez)

how the shell sat minus the 5stud front end we put in before i got around to taking photos

Expression: Lazy ass taking photos instead of working AGAIN!!!

5 Stud, Coilovers, Steering rack, castor rods, control arms installed

Front Wheels bolted on

Rear end all bolted in

On the ground!! After attacking Kristen and Nathan

Hmmm whats in here?

All loaded up on the trailer

Current and future

 Nose cut to replace rad support and skirts - also a Carbon Bonnet

Now you ask what the hell is with the Title? and whats with buying Laurel parts for a Cefiro... Well one day Nathan and I were poking around all jap and came across a whole lot of laurel exterior parts and then something like this popped into his head.

 Behold the Laufiro!!!

So back we went to acquire said found parts!

Mint headlights, Corner lights and grill

Mint front bar with lip

Mint guards

We also found the matching bonnet for the guards and bar but we couldnt fit it in the back of the falcon with everything else that was in there!! Stay tuned for more updates about this car down the road as for the moment we have things to get ready for Matsuri!!

Hope you all enjoyed!!

As always Stay Safe

Bev!!!

Winged A Boot, Water Pumped and Washed

One of my new favorite places is Whole Sale Car Parts because of all the awesome parts that go through there such as this awesome looking wing!!

Looks quite similar to or is a knight sports Wing

We couldn't let it sit there but we also wernt sure what to do with it, well that didnt really last very long as there is a certain champagne beast that needs as much help keeping the back end as stable as possible so the mission fitting it started.

The first part of said mission was to remove it from the S14 boot lid it came with now that was the easy part as pictured above, then it was time to remove the Carbon boot lid already on the car now while it was awesome looking... bolting a wing to it would have tore it to pieces so the standard metal one was chosen

Carbon lid removed

Wing mocked up onto the boot lid

Bolt holes all measured up and centers marked

 Drilling bolt holes

 holes drilled

Testing fitment before bolting down the top

During our drilling and banter we disturbed the locals.

Willis the Possum

Shezza the possum

Checking the level

Wing on

Awesome way to spend a friday afternoon, well the next day there was more work to be done on the car as during its last outing the original water pump didnt like reving to 8,200 rpm and started to cry out of the weep hole, since then the car has been sitting so it wasnt a drama well that was until i organized another Queensland Raceway breakfast and Motorkhana so its needed once again!!

Waiting for the silicon to cure

Once again it roared into life... well cant expect much with a turbo back straight exhaust, whilst it roared it was cranky that its slumber was disturbed it stalled quite a few times whilst being reversed out the front for a bath.... hmmmmm cold start map... what cold start map?

All washed and ready to be thrashed

lucky us were paid a visit from the kids in blue because of a cranky next door Neighbor afraid for her life because we are all hoons out to kill her!!! when the police asked why it was so loud we simply said... BECAUSE RACE CAR!!!!

Well thats it for this post 

As always stay safe

Bev!!!

Yup Behind Again, Lakeside coverage

Hi All

I know few and far between again... I have reasons though!!

I ended up getting sick a few weeks ago with a gastro bug that was going around and it really hit me for a six, I also recently hit a quarter of a century years old!!

But dont think for a second cars have taken a back seat, we have been full steam ahead since my post about the Lakeside breakfast, We have another car to add to the NK stable, changes to some of the current cars and we are gearing up for a massive Drift event being held at Queensland Raceway early october DRIFT MATSURI!!!!

Since my last post we have done quite a lot of work one a few of the cars such as putting the stock metal bootlid back on Nathans Champagne beast with the addition of a wing, picked up Kristens new Cefiro, Stripped a half cut, geared up for Matsuri and have made a tonn of progress with Project Origin X so we can run it at Matsuri (yes yes i know i said it was going to be a time attack car but I want to slide it first)

There will be Blog posts for all!!

Ok so I'm guessing your all saying quite with the story and get on with the cars!!! well hold on because I thought I would first post some videos and photos of the Breakfast @ Lakeside we held last month, I honestly swear that Silvie just doesnt like tracks then again everything went pretty well out at Lakeside until I brought Mum in (Yup she came for a passenger run) so I could pick up the pace... I ended up hitting my front/dump pipe on the stupid freaking pot holes on the road that runs behind the pits, I went back out not thinking much about it until i got two or three laps in and i could hear that all to familiar squealing noise coming from the manifold to turbo gasket... yes yes i know i need to change the stupid X-Force exhaust system.

Ok well here are some of the Lakeside pics and the videos Ive uploaded.

 The line up

 Kristen pulling away from Steve's S15

 Sean surrounded by imports

 Kristen Leading a pack (Silvie at the top of the hill)

 Silvie squealing past because of gasket leak :(

And again

There are more photos Here

Here are the Videos that I threw together, the first is a mix of in-car and trackside. The second is all the in-car I took.

Alright All Stay tuned as ill most likely have a few more posts up tonight!!

and as always stay safe!!

Bev!!!