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ErwinFenyvesi23
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Location: Japan Osaka Occupation: JDM Car enthusiast Age: 29 V$: broke |
#149762 2018-09-29 22:49 |
 -✔ Alright... After 2 weeks of absence I decided to come back and let y'all know that I haven't died. Actually I don't even know where to start because there been so many things in those days. Some things got sold, some things got bought and a whole lot of things have been started, but I will explain everything down below. All I can tell you guys is that I was really busy in these past 2 weeks , and some things have changed. Strap yourselves in , I've got some explaining to do. ✔-
  -✔ Well , I guess I'll start with the GTST. I can't tell you how much I love it , I've owned it for around 3 months now and it's the first car that I've completely overhauled and turned into a monster. I'll never forget the first drive with this car after I've finished building the engine. It was unreal... Ahh , my first ever monster... I'll never forget this car , but I'm afraid to tell you that the GTST is gone. Because I've stopped modifying it a while ago , I started to feel like I've finally finished my first car. I know that a car is never truly finished , but in my case , I turned it into exactly in what I wanted to. The goal for the GTST was to make it an all-rounder car , and it was more than that. It's truly an amazing experience to drive this car , but y'know , I got used to it and I felt like my experience with it started to feel stale , so after a lot of thinking , I finally decided to pass it to someone else. Someone that can truly appreciate the car for what it is and maybe even take it further , so yeah , that's the end of my first beast. I couldn't have done it without my boys at the shop , the jack of all trades , Mackay and of course , the one and only , Radcoon the artist behind the wonderful wrap. We all turned that ordinary blue GTST into an absolute beast that can break necks on the Wangan. I'll remember this car for as long as my mind lets me , but one thing that I'll never forget will be the moment I passed the 300 km/h mark. My highest top speed with the GTST was 322 km/h and man , it's truly an amazing experience. I'm more than happy that I've trusted my life in this car , and I'm more than sure the next owner will love it as much as I do. I'm insanely grateful to Mackay , Radcoon and my other friends for helping and supporting me. I wouldn't be here if Mackay didn't take me under his wing , and I'm forever grateful towards him , so yeah , big thanks to everyone that supported and helped me ! ✔-  -✔ The last drive in the GTST was ... well... emotional. I loved every second of it and I'll never forget it. Just the way this car grips the road and accelerates so fast is just amazing , and yeah... I had to take Mackay with me too. I'm sure he loved this thing almost as much as I did. I'm gonna miss doing wangan runs in the middle of the night with Mack... The GTST gave me quite some awesome memories that I'll never forget , and I'm truly happy that I've owned this car. I'll never forget you... Thirty-threes for life ! ✔-   -✔ As for the GTR , well , it's as clean as ever. I haven't even thought of my next mod for it , and to be quite honest , I love it just like it is , bone stock. Y'know , in my opinion , in a world full of tuners , it's important to keep at least one car you own as clean and untouched as possible. For example , the GTR is the perfect daily car for me. It's really really nice to drive and use as a daily car and it has the power exactly when you need it. The way everything flows together perfectly is exactly what I like. From now on , these beauties will get rarer and rarer , and I'm not gonna lie , but this is the car that I'll keep as stock as possible for as long as possible. I know , I could have some fun , maybe build an engine and reach crazy top speeds , but I recently saw a video about how some Japanese tuners keep their cars stock to keep the spirit of the car alive. Having a stock car is the best representation of the spirit of the car , and when it comes to GTRs , I'm an absolute purist. This being my first ever TRUE Skyline GTR , I feel like I must keep it the way it is , because as I said , they will get rarer and rarer and there's gonna be a time when bone stock R33 GTRs are gonna become absolute unicorns. So yeah , as I said , I'll do small mods to it , but I want to keep the spirit of my first ever GTR alive , and that's what I'll do , because I love it just the way it is... ✔-   -✔ And well , I decided to take a step further and do something for the better. I decided to rent a little garage for myself , because I was getting too dependent of Mackay's shop and I started to feel guilty for throwing all my stuff around Mackay's workplace , so yeah. I started renting this garage for 3 reasons , one would be that I need to store my cars , another one would be that I need some personal space just for me where I can hang out and work on my own cars by myself , and the third reason would be that I somehow keep collecting more and more cars ( more on that later ). This place is quite cheap to rent and it can easily store around 2 cars , but if you really know how to park in tight spaces , it can fit even three cars. Sure , that wouldn't be too practical , but still. So yeah , I already started moving my things in , which also brings me to the subject that Mackay gave me some old tools he had laying around the storage of the shop , so yeah , huge thanks Mack ! I really appreciate it ! Now I can work on my cars with the right equipment that I need ! ✔-    -✔ Talking about moving in , as you can see , the Z is already in there. It was tricky to get it there because I had to put it up on a trailer in order to move it , but in the end , I managed to do it. So yeah , in these 2 weeks I haven't even touched it , and oh man , I need to give it a wash asap. It's horribly dirty , but ehh , it's the long term project , so I have all the time in the world to work on it. I don't wanna rush it either , plus , I don't even really know what I wanna do with it just yet , but it'll take some time until it becomes drivable on the roads and raceable on the tracks. I definitely have high hopes for this car because it's gonna be fully restored , and because I moved in my own garage , I'll do it all by myself , which is gonna be even better for my experience. Tearing it down to the chassis is gonna be tedious , but I'll learn not only the components of the car better , but I'll know how to put them back , after all , this is a really old car , so obviously , everything is not as advanced as it is now. It will definitely be fun to tear everything apart and put it all back together , and I can't wait to do it , but still , I don't want to rush too much , I have all the time in the world and I got some other things to do as well , so yeah , it's gonna take a while , but I'll get there eventually. ✔-   -✔ So now that you guys know about my new personal garage , it's time to show you this. You may ask yourself : "Did you really buy an S14 ?" and my answer to that is absolutely not. Just let me explain everything. So , 2 weeks ago I got contacted by an old friend from the US that I've talked to a lot in the past years , before I made my little escapade over here in Japan. So pretty much what happened is that Richard , a really really good friend of mine who is also the owner of this S14 , offered me a little/huge job. Because he doesn't have the tools or the knowledge to completely overhaul his S14 , he decided to send it over in Japan to me , so I can build it for him. I guess I could say that I've gained quite a lot of knowledge over here in Japan , and to be quite honest , my dream is to own a shop , just like Mackay , and this could be the start of that. I accepted Richard's offer and a week ago this wonderful Kouki showed up at the docks. Currently it's poorly running with a really troublesome SR20 , and trust me , there's so much stuff to be done to this thing. Don't worry , I asked Rich if I can document the build of his S14 over here and he was more than happy to say yes. That way , I can produce more content by showing you guys what I do and how I do , and Rich can fully see what's happening so that way , everything will go smooth. His plans for this car are pretty big , and it's gonna take quite a while , which is exactly what I want. The downside of this whole thing is that I'll have to work on the Kouki in my free time , and now that I have my own personal space , I can do it ! I'm really happy that I'm somewhat on my way to start my dream , which is to own my own shop , build cars , modify cars and repair cars for other people ! At this point I might as well say that I wanna be Mackay ! But anyway , the Kouki is gonna be a long project , lots of things are gonna have to be done to that S14 because it's in terrible shape when it comes to driving and running in general , so me and Rich will discuss our plans and ideas soon so that way , we'll know in what direction the build is going. This is going to be an awesome experience for both me , Rich and all of you guys , so yeah , I'm on my way to achieving my dream ! ✔- -✔ So now only one thing remains to be revealed. It was a tough decision , but after lots and lots of hours of thinking and talking with 11K and Mackay , they somehow managed to make me get this... ✔-   -✔ Yep , that's right , I bought my first European car ! That's my brand new BMW E36 318is. ✔- -✔ So yeah , I decided to join the E36 gang and I pulled the trigger on this wonderful thing. As you know , it's an 318is. I know , it's just an 318 , but for what I'll be doing to it , it won't matter in the end. I found this E36 on goo-net for just around 6000 V$ , to be more precise , 5981 V$. It's pretty much dirt cheap , and I said why not ? I really like Mackay's brand new E36 so I decided to join the gang with Mackay and 11k and build one hell of a car for myself. As you already know , it's my first European car and oh man , it's different. I've always loved BMWs though , and from what I know , BMW really runs in my family back at home ! This is quite a big step for me and I'm so happy that I bought it. It's definitely going to be something different , which is exactly what I wanted , so yeah , it's gonna be one hell of a project car ! ✔-  -✔ Some more details on this car would be that it has a 1.8L engine. Anyway , it won't matter in the end , but still , I'll have some fun with it. This E36 is also from 1998 which is quite new ! I really like that ! It also has around 125.000 km on the odometer , which is pretty decent I'd say. It's definitely a lot more than my other cars , but hey , at least it looks phenomenal right now ! It's LHD which is actually considered a luxury over here in Japan , so that gives me some cool points haha ! It has a manual transmission which is good , and it has never been into a crash before , so the chassis is perfectly straight and everything is exactly how it should be ! So yeah , I bought it for the cheap price of 5981 V$ which is really really cheap and I couldn't be happier with it ! The car runs amazingly smooth too , so that's a major plus , it also means that I'll be able to use it as a daily if I really wanted to , but I already have plans for it , so I don't think it'll reach the daily car stage with this engine hahaha ! It's pretty much gonna be my main project besides the job I have to do for Rich ( the Kouki ) so yeah , the E36 will distract me from the Z for a while which is good , because I don't want to rush that car anyways so yeah , it's gonna be sick ! I can definitely tell you that the E36 is gonna be one hell of a car , so get ready for some unique updates regarding this car ! ✔-   -✔ So yeah , that's is why I left for 2 weeks. So many things have happened and oh man , these 2 weeks were tough , but in the end , it was so worth it ! I'm really happy how everything turned out ! I'm still sad that I've left the GTST go , but it was for the better , and the new garage is really going to help me out ! I'm also really glad Rich offered me that job ! It could be the start of my dream , and now that I own an E36 , I can proudly say that I've done the best decision I've done in a while ! Ohh , and before I forget , another reason why I was absent in these 2 weeks was the fact that I've spent a lot of time on the team S15 ! We are going to get it ready soon , but we've still have a lot to go ! I can't wait to see it drive ! It's gonna be such a crazy car... So yeah , hopefully everything will run smooth in the future as well , but we'll see what the future brings me ! It's definitely going to be hard to keep up with work , with Rich's Kouki and my E36 , but I'll find a way to do them all at once , so it's all gonna be good ! Anyway , it's really late now and I should head to bed because if I don't , I'll end up sleeping all day so yeah , tomorrow I'm gonna sit back and relax as much as I can , so that means that I'll be active on Vs ! Make sure to drop a comment to tell me what you think of this update ! Did you miss me ? Haha , but anyways , I'll see you guys around , godspeed homies !  ✔-This post was edited by ErwinFenyvesi23 (2018-09-29 23:00, ago) |
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