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#153360   2019-01-31 00:08          
# MACKAY : Damn man! Supra looks so good, white cars are fast cars, right? :thumbsup: Since I am "back" while being a functional human being let's go for a cruise on a Tokyo expressway, I can already imagine how good our cars will look side by side. ♥

Talking about our cars I would be really down to go for a rip on Tsukuba in our BMW's, both so colorful like aaah, lets organize something for March or something, cause I doubt that my E36' will be running properly sooner that spring.. :rolleyes:

And that Audi was a steal man, even though I am not a fan yours looks good as fuck, can't wait to see some proper changes on it man, *hint* *hint*.

Also congratulations of landing a job in Omori Factory man! It is definitely a dream come true, so now keep working hard and maybe they will let you touch the Z-Tune one day haha! Gonna pay you visit ASAP, and since you are working here please organize me brand new V-Spec II badge.. :rolleyes:

Much loves from me my dude!

bit of a bummer man. Looked good, not good enough XD. got smth Black in mind rn. DONT TELL ME BLACK ISNT FAST PLS THX
And yes, after its all buttoned up, i'd need to take the Supra to a proper blast through the expressway anyways! you and maybe AJ and Marc tagging along would make it that much better! i will get absolutely mincemeaten by your BNR tho so thats a shame :))

Oh wow, literally the same thing i just said in E46 form. Meed to begin track car mods very soon and after that, i'd need to take it to Tsukuba! again, that much better with y'all around as well :-X

Indeed the Audi was a great deal for what it is. With all my shit going Sicko Mode i did need some car that i can drive around and still have some street-cred on. it was a great candidate!

Thanks for the good wishes man! Love back your way as well :-X

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# Lagano : Ayyyy looks like new year's eve was a blast for you guys lmao. Looks like you got straight back to work with your rides the day after! M3 got some nice little touches, but the Supra is now totally different! Man, the black and white turned out so well on it. That A5 was a nice find too, i've always liked the look of it! At least you have some kind of a proper daily haha. And how the hell did you get a job at Nismo?! While you said it's not so easy it must be lots of fun anyway! Well, if i'll need some Nismo parts in the future now i know who to ask. ;)

New years was indeed something else! and yeah i was pretty quick to get to my chariots XD. The Nismo job was a bit of a stroke of luck. Eternally grateful that it worked out! :)) and yeah, feel free to hmu for any Nismo parts that you need ;)
And thanks my dude!

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# Phonexius : Lovely rides, I envy you guys... Takee me back to when I was with lagano building cars.....
Keep the pace up

You still are building cars tho! im waiting to see what that R35 is gonna get :O
And thankss! :thumbsup:

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# DEADMANE : Beautiful cars! :O

Thanks man! your stuff is beautiful too! ;)

Added 27 seconds later:

.....JAPANESE ICON KINDA DAY


A thing i expected heartily when i revealed that i had a job at Nismo, is helping friends who drive cars from one of Japans most world-renowned brands, Nissan. and ofc, friends get quality stuff from Nismo, i get them the parts and thus help the branch. its a win-win situation!


Kicking that off with none other than MACKAY, who you may have seen has recently treated himself with a pristine condition, low mileage BNR34 V-Spec II (if not, GO PEEP HIS RP NOW!). Its all around PERFECTION this car, except from the fact that at some point it lost its rear V-Spec II badge. and well thats where i came in. He video-called me a few days ago to work something out, And just like that we had a plan!


Aside from the BNR-shenanigans, the mans is also building a BMW S54B32 for one of his E36's, and could use some actual experience of what a stock S54 engine felt like. So i came up with a suggestion that i take his BNR34 personally to Omori Factory, while leaving my E46 M3 at his garage. I can get the badging installed by official Nismo mechanic hands (among some other things), while he can keep my E46 for the day and y'know, see what the thing feels like. and ofc, i can see what a BNR34 in all its glory feels like! It was set. we'd meet at a Ramen-Sushi joint nearby both of us the next day.


NEXT DAY, 9 A.M.



I was expecting that i'd be the first one there, since MACKAY likes his sleep XD. But would you believe if i said we arrived at the same moment more or less? i turned my Right indicator on to turn into this alley that has the Restaurant, and coming from the opposite direction, Left indicator on, was the pearl white R34!



Upon parking up parallel to each other, we had a bit of gossip, a lot of Admiring each others vehicles, and (not) a lot of photos taken!




I think we can agree about how well the TE37's fit the car. aside from the tasteful Nismo body parts. Its kinda like Shez's DC5 that you saw on an earlier post. i.e. Everything flows so good! at around 50k kilometres only, it was pretty much a literal museum piece too. Ngl, just looking at it for a while has me wanting one quite bad



And ofc, my comparatively humble E46 parked behind



Right then, enough drooling (both over the cars and bc of hunger). was time to get going and get some breakfast!



We then proceeded to ABSOLUTELY FILL OURSELVES with some Makizushi and Miso Ramen, aside from two cups of coffee. It really was as delicious as the reviews about this restaurant said. overall, a great start to the day!


After getting our stomachs fullfilled and caffeine-requirements sorted, we headed off to MACKAYs garage. and me being the reckless mf that i (sometimes) am, i decided it would be a great idea to dump the clutch in 2nd gear. On a narrow-ish street. At about 9:30 a.m...



Could've ended much worse but gladly i didnt take it too far lmao. But well, another 20 or so minutes of pushing ourselves through narrow japanese streets later,


WELCOME TO MACKTOPIA!



he parked the daily-BNR outside, along with his Purple E36 (the one getting the S54) and instructed me to pull my car straight into his spot of the garage. After which i got to get a glance at his current stash of cars (missing the 370z but his wife drives that so)



On the lift, over my E46's roof is his ER34 GT-T. His drift car. With a full custom fabbed cage, widened rear, nismo bodykit, all-tweaked suspension, and lastly, a dying RB25DET XD. But that didnt matter since he may have smth up his sleeve to power this thing soon!




Then there was this Calypso Red 325i E36. Imported from Russia for a cheaper price than buying from Japan, Manual swapped, and now awaiting drift-spec goodies. He stated the car was for one of his friends who'd pick it up soon after it gets the drift components. Hmmmmmmm i wonder who



And lastly, the prime-piece. Sitting in all its majesty in front of all the other cars, the Racecar BNR34. Packing about a WHOPPING 1300 HP, now making (i think) a track car transition from a Wangan blaster with the all Carbon body panels, deleted headlights and what not.




Was a great experience looking at these cars but there was no denying, time being around 10 a.m., i WAS getting a bit late to work. Had informed my Senior the day before that i might be late due to the cause of bringing a customers car. But still, i had to get going pretty quick.


Took all the photos you just saw, traded car keys with MACKAY, recieved the payment for the new badge, and parted ways for the day.



I myself was beyond hyped for being able to experience a BNR34 first-hand. and dont worry lol MACKAY had briefed on how the clutch felt, the do's and dont's etc.


without further ado, i took a deep breath, and the key was turned. My ears were greeted with the delightful sound of a mostly untouched RB26DETT. while tuned ones may have a rather loud, sometimes even choppy aggressive idle, this car had just a sweet, smooth sound. From what i know only the muffler was changed and the rest was untouched on the exhaust, but nevertheless, it sounded great!



and just like that, off i went to work. Omori Factory.



Driving through usual Tokyo traffic, well, it felt like any other normal car apart from the sound. Which wasnt even particularly loud either. It wasnt unconfortable, shifting through the gears at cruising speeds felt very normal. It has HKS Hipermax coils that arent tuned aggressively. Again, pretty comfortable! Well this IS mack's current daily, and it very well ticks the "daily" category in my opinion. But of course it doesnt have all the creature-comforts an actual modern day, or even some older day daily candidate cars would have, but we dont need those do we XD. It was a bit low on Gas tho, so i took it onto myself to give 'er a top-up. Just regular pump fuel is what it runs on, and a full tank of that is what it got!



Only my Senior was aware that i was bringing a customer car in by myself. Which is why when i pulled up to the shop about 30mins later, Hoshino and Eiichi, my two most acquainted mechanics at Nismo were rather bamboozled. They both stared at the car in a sort of confused manner as i pulled it in and gradually came to a stop. i got out, laughed a bit and explained that this was a friends car and they went "OHHHHHHHHHHHH hai"



I then proceeded to give them the rundown on what the car needs. Ofc the V-spec II badge, some spray-cleaning of the lights, and an underbody checkup for any loose parts, tierods that need replacing etc. Hoshino then put the car on an empty lift to finish the underbody checkup first. And while he was it, i told him about something that MACKAY wanted to know. Which is just how "original" the car was. i.e. all OEM bits or not, no history of damage and so on. well apart from the coils and changed exhaust parts.



I left Hoshino-Kun at it to do all the stuff on the car while i kept my eye on the rest of the service bay. Came back about an hour later to see that he had already finished and parked the car to another side. Asked him about the car, and the man gave me an approval that it is as original as can get apart from the tuning parts. None of the suspension components needed replacing too. Well what else can one expect from a 50k kilometre well-cared car lmao. Tho In the end people say "its not a matter of how many kilometres, its a matter of how harsh the kilometres were". and in this cars case, the previous owner before MACKAY seemed to have not given it a lot of the 'harsh' environment. So yeah, Nismo approved pristine car! the taillights didnt need any work on them, just some spray cleaning on the headlights, and ofc the missing badge was fitted. Hosh' (yes thats what i like to call him nowadays) said it'd take a few hours for the glue to stiffen up a bit so i left the car there for the rest of the day.


LOVELY EVENING


Right then, with work finished for the day and the V-spec II badge dried enough, it was time to pull the car out of the garage. Went off to a nearby Parking area to send some photos of the (rather small change) end result to MACKAY




Told him that i'd get going home now, but then the craving got to me. I was yet to actually feel this car through some bends and this is a one-time chance, so i called Mack up. And straight asked him "BRO CAN I TAKE YOUR CAR THROUGH A BACKROAD ON THE WAY HOME PLS THANKS"
He said "UHHHHHHHHHH YEAH SURE. Just dont rev it over 6k or you are in trouble young man". i had that same thought in my head lmao. But yes, smth is better than nothing and underr 6000 RPM should be enough to feel how the car moves through bends. Hell i was set to not even use full throttle (and i didnt)


With the sun now setting, and giving off the reddish hue a clear-day sunset often gives, i turned off the main-roads that were now filling up with people returning from work, and onto a nearby backroad i knew about. Its not the most bendy-bendy, nor is it just straight and boring. And with the increasing amount of highway space and whatnot, it was rather unused as it was almost always a long-cut. But hey, that doesnt turn the aspiring petrolhead off does it XD



At this small straight upon entrance, i dropped the car down to third, RPM at a steady 5000. Here comes the first bend!



This being an almost hairpin turn, third gear at 75kph wouldnt suffice. So, brake, Drop to 2nd, CHUCK 'ER IN. and WEW i could already tell what the fuss behind this particular chassis has always been about. it doesnt feel exactly nimble, not even as nimble as my E46 does. but it felt sort of "at-home" to me. And dont get me wrong on that, it may not be as nimble as my E46, but it felt just as fast, actually maybe even faster with the power going through all the wheels! in no time, i was lost from judging how the car handled the course, to actually feeling the car. turn after turn went by, and i continued to smile like a kid with each of them.



Going back to my phrase there, "at-home", what i meant is just how planted and firm it feels through the turns. Now i cant tell if its the HKS Coils doing that, or even a combination of said coilovers and the Toyo R888 tires. but regardless. and keep in mind, im experiencing all this under 6000 RPM and at 75% throttle tops! thats also another thing about those sequential twin turbos. power all throughout the rev range!



With the course now coming to an end, i quickly got myself back to judging how the car felt. and well, WHAT AN ABSOLUTE JOY IT WAS! i sort of gave the steering wheel two happy taps like Jeremy Clarkson often does and flashed yet another smile. aaaaand conclusion? Well it showed me how wrong some people are when they look at one aspect of a car. how? well see like i said, it didnt feel very nimble. the BNR33 IS dubbed a boat and in terms of weight the BNR34 isnt far off. but still, did that contribute to a bad driving experience? HELL NO IT DIDNT!


With the road now straightening back off before merging into the crowded city lanes, i slowed down gradually and cruised my way back to Mackays place.



Think its safe to say, I WANT ONE. QUITE BAD NOW. (might start saving up for one??!)


And here we are. Safe and sound at home. in just the same condition i took it, but now with cleaner headlights, a new badge, and Omori-certified authenticity.



First thing MACKAY asked as i pulled it in, "how'd you like it boye?" i just said that in short it was BRILLIANT. We had a laugh about it too. Parked in one side of the shop and Mac then proceeded to examine the lights and the new badge.


It was a usual pretty long day at work and i got pretty tired. So i then told Mac that i'd get going. Shook hands, Bro-hugged, Reversed the M3 out of the garage, and off i went home.



Speaking of the M3, Mac said he had his fair share of fun with it, but i'd rather not spoil anything rn XD. Keep your eyes on his thread for the coverage!


NOW, LETS JUMP BACK TO PROGRESS ON MY CARS...


Starting off with the "beater" Audi A5, from which i already removed a lot of the "beater" characteristic. first things first, OH Y'ALL MUST LIKE SOME BLASPHEMY AYE?



Yes, those are authentic Nismo LMGT1's. R18 size. On an Audi. Yes. Ja. Yap. Hai.

Came across a good deal from Japonic a week or two back, these wheels were on his (now wrecked, F) R33 GTST, and he was selling them for 1800 V$ with tires! too good of a deal to pass so i copped em and had them shipped over. wasnt really a fan of the old SSR's on the car. CAN SAY, THIS LOOKS SUBSTANTIALLY BETTER imo!



Will agree they do look just a tad small, but yes these are, for now, temporary. Unless they grow on me too good. Sometime down the line i may switch to R19 BBS's of some sort but we'll see!



As for that contraption you see below the bumper there, yeah remember how i said i had a new exhaust on the garage for it? this is it!


What you're looking it is an AWE Tuning track edition exhaust, slightly modified now with the central Muffler now cut off. So, apart from the still restrictive downpipe, the exhaust now only has one reasonator on each side. AND NO GODDAMN LEAKS!



The sound quality showed a DAY AND NIGHT difference! i havent gotten to filming a clip of the exhaust myself, but heres one from ol' reliable YouTube *LINK*

That car from the YT video is more beefed up, and thats the slightly different Touring Edition exhaust, but its actually the way my car is going more or less so you can get an idea of how it sounds!


And lastly, we have some new (..used) seats! You may have seen on BigSmoke's thread that we took the old Recaro replicas off and cleaned the interior out. Well i proceeded to give the Recaros a good cleanup, before flipping them at a nearby UpGarage. what i got in exchange, also from the same UpGarage, were a set of Reclinable Bride Brix 1's in black and white!



i could've for sure gone with full bucket fixed brides/recaros/sparcos etc. but this is meant to be my most streetable car. So yeah reclinables seemed the way to go!



...ONTO THE M3


Yes i have said ONTO THE M3! MANY MODS LOTS OF PROGRESS! yeah no, not yet XD. the current mod i have given it is a new steering wheel. Replacing the old, rather weighted stock wheel with a traditional ATC Volanti KEY!S RACING wheel!



seats should be coming up next for this car. Waiting for those to arrive!



And before i conclude, The Supra.


ALREADY TIME FOR A MAKEOVER! Well, ik what you're thinking, that was rather short-lived. But ngl the livery wasnt bad or anything, it was just missing "flavor" so to put. I looked at pics of my old (now wrecked, F x2) S14, in all its glorious Mine's phase, and it kept telling me that my Supra now was lacking quality. SOOO yeah. im taking the exterior apart more or less. Expect it to return in a whole new look!



That'll be it for now. As always, thank you for stopping by~! ;)




Current owned cars:
- Toyota Supra GA-JZA70 Mk3
- BMW E46 M3
- Nissan Skyline ECR33 GTS25t
- Nissan 200SX Hatchback
- BMW E92 335i
- Nazda RX-7 FD3S Type RS
- Mazda RX-7 JF1FD (USDM)
- Nissan Silvia S14