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BigSmoke
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Location: Indonesia Occupation: Following Those Damn Trains Age: V$: Broke |
#157525 2019-08-10 19:19 |
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Small Update:
Wheely Good Deals! (and The Rise of the Meme Machine)
With less than a week to go to Ebisu Summer Drift Matsuri, my newest project has taken it's shape.
And oh, thanks to my firends I accidentally stumbled myself upon the heaven of wheels!  The new mods didn't stop there though, as now it also has a bunch of new stickers! Well let's jump straight into the update to see how it all goes!  [06 Aug 2019] After finishing my works for the day, I continued my search for cheap wheels. And I'm a bit torn on what kind of wheels I should fit to the X110. Aapparently AJ(RocketBunnyS13) had some time off as well and is online, so I decided to have a video call with him for some suggestions. Some time later Muza(Niatross) came back from his job at Omori, so AJ had him joining the call as well.
Both AJ and Muza suggested me to search for used wheels instead of new ones. This seems quite obvious, but if you remember what I said on my last update, I was considering reps instead, so this is quite a lifesaver. Still, I kinda doubt if there's anyone who will sell a full set, as I mostly found people selling them individually or just half a set. Okay, my Weds Albinos on my Kaede the vert was also a used one, but I found them by chance I should admit, and it was located outside Japan. Both AJ and Muza suggested me to look around the Croooober website, which is famous for selling and exporting wheels from Japan. And yes, it does have quite a lot of 'o's on its name. As for why it has so many 'o's on its name I don't really know why, just ask them by yourself. Besides Croooober, I also decided to look up for used wheels at my trusted shop when it comes to tuning, Nengun. Both Nengun and Croooober-eh screw it, I'll just throw half of the 'o's and write it as Croober(, AW MAN! So we back in the mine......)-threw quite a lot of surprising deals to me it turns out. Sure, most of the cheap wheels are factory stockies or reps brands that I've never heard of in my whole life, but if you're patient enough to dig deeper there are lots of cheap deals for famous stockies (e.g. R33, R34 and Supra stockies) or legit wheels. And if you're lucky, they'll come as a full set. And if you're really lucky, they'll be sold along with tyres as well! I spent lots of time browsing wheels for sale as I continue my consultation sesh with Muza and AJ, who has suggested to get 18 inch wheels for the X110. In the end, I was split between choosing AME Shallen XF-55(which is funnily enough a reps based on BMW Style 343), Work Euroline DH, and Work Emotion XD9, all of which came with economic-type tyres(Bridgestone Ecopia, Yokohama Ecos and Yokohama BluEarth respectively), which I don't really mind. Considering my currently limited budget and the fact that the Euroline DH fits better with the X110's looks in general, I decided to roll with it and grab them for a whopping V$245! I, AJ and Muza can't believe ourselves over the price, but presumably people often buy these and they can be easily found on the used market. The wheel I bought has scratches and the silver coating has been peeled off with age as well, explaining the cheap price. Oh well, this is for a missile so it doesn't matter. Speaking of which, AJ and Muza has an interesting lecture about wheels: In competitive grip races, weight and strength of the wheel obviously matters a lot, you gotta have a wheel that is light enough to make the cars move quicker but also strong enough to face hours and million miles of pressure and torture. In drift events, wheel weight doesn't matter, but bigger wheels will help you on breaking traction to go sideways. Having strong wheels usually helps for grassroots usage, but some competitive drivers may opt for weaker ones. In drag racing it's the other way around, since smaller wheels would also mean lighter wheels and more importantly allows bigger tyres to be installed for maximum grip. Wheel problems sorted, I moved on into the suspension area. Originally the plan was to simply cut the springs of the X110 to lower and stiffen it, but it turns out doing this incorrectly will ruin the car and even make the car act like a jelly cannonballing into another dimension. So I opted for a cheap coilovers, but this was rather hard to search. In the light of a moment I had an idea of simply combining the stock shocks and get another springs. This might work, says AJ and Muza, so I just went on to purchase a set of Cusco springs for a grand total of V$200. Those and the wheels are supposed to arrive at the same day as the rest of stuff I bought the other day. [08 Aug 2019] Finally, everything has arrived! To remind you again on what I bought aside from the wheels and the springs, here's the list: -Nissan CD001 Transmission, V$585 I immediately spent my time installing all the mods, as well as, for the first time, welding the stock differential. There are soooooo many things to install and adjust I had to stop working as night falls and uhhh.....my hair and hands was actually on fire when I try welding the diff
Don't worry, nothing else was on fire thankfully, though I got myself wounded and lie powerless for some minutes because of this."OWWW GOD THAT'S HOT!" *head hits the underside of the car and bounces to the floor* "ARGH NOT AGAIN!" [08 Aug 2019] After nursing my wounds from yesterday and learn how to weld properly without hurting myself, I continued on working on the X110. Welp, I almost burn my fingers again and even trap them between the springs and, but in the end by afternoon I finished my job. And surprisingly despite all the parts quality and various accidents I had while I work on it......IT ACTUALLY STARTS AND ROLLS!
 So to celebrate this, I brought it for an errand run to test it. And what people say about dailying a welded diff turns out to be true.......it's quite noisy on veeeery low speeds  Moments later, I arrived at a shopping center. It was rather quiet so I decided to chill for a while and took some pics there. And despite this I still managed to got the attention from people due to the diff's grinding noise........thankfully nothing has broke so far. I was expecting the whole transmission to fall apart to be honest
  But honestly, I think it still one more touch to be done......... [08 Aug 2019] ......and that would be stickers! Being a missile boi, I just print my own stickers and slap them semi-randomly on the car. And yes, I slapped some comedic-themed stickers over there, mainly the Ebisu puns sticker (the Ebichu (which is an anime) stickers on the side and Yebisu (which is a brand of beer) stickers on the rear. if you can't see them, basically all the orange stickers). And yes, that SSS and Smoking Sexy Style stickers are taken from Devil May Cry 5. And yes, you can get some of the stickers and many more HERE!
But for now, I present to you......THE MEME MACHINE! It's done and ready to rock the Ebisu Summer Drift Matsuri! And oh, let me know if you're attending the Drift Matsuri as well!  
    Finally, only a bit more until the Drift Matsuri! And of course my wallet has taken some hit, and I'll just put it right here: That's all my updates for now, thank you for stopping by and see you soon!
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