THE ABSOLUTE SIZE OF IT OMG

So Muzahid (Niatross) got himself a new daily! And as per usual, we had to meet up today. (Don't worry you will see the new car I bought tomorrow haha)

Not much to say, so I'll stop stalling and show pics! Check out Niatross' RP for details on his new score, a W140 S500.



Oh yeah, let me just say, I am really happy with the stock power on this Civic, CVT and 1.5L, but torque is GOOD thanks to the VTEC and the turbo working together.

Aaaaand here we are! Oh yeah, Marc (Macaron_moon) was there too haha. His CZ4A Evo X MR looking beautiful as ever, sporting a wingless look and TE37s (Which now have genuine Rays stickers on!)

ＡＢＳＯＬＵＴＥ　ＵＮＩＴ　沿音遠

Finances:

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V$52,389.52

A HUMBLE BEGINNING!

So, now you guys finally know what I bought. 1994 Nissan Silvia K's (S14). Now, you might be wondering, if the car's model year is 1994, why is it a Kouki, and not a Zenki?





The previous owner of the guy I bought it from, did a full-on Kouki conversion, albeit missing a few badges here and there, of which the last owner, Koro-san, found and installed to complete the Kouki look.





Now, this has been through quite a number of drift sessions, and everything was fine according to him. But when he did tandems at this one session (around like 2 sessions before his last one), the JZX90 Cresta in front of him slowed down, thanks to Koro-san's 17-year drifting experience, he was able to react promptly, slowing his pace down to match the JZX's. The real problem was the R33 GTS that was behind him, who wasn't able to react in time. Hence, the R33's front tires kicked the front left fender in, as well as hit the front left R34 wheel the S14 had on at the time, causing Koro-san to spin out, with the rear right quarter panel hitting the JZX90's rear left quarter panel. He was really pissed at what happened, but seeing as the R33's owner was just an 18 year old student, he really couldn't get angry at him all that much, more so when the JZX90's owner was Koro-sans friend, who advised him to just let it go.

These are some pictures shown to me by Koro-san, moments before absolute chaos had occured.









Believe or not, he told me that he cried while looking at the car after the accident, his pride and joy, crashed and damaged within a matter of seconds. This is one of the biggest aftermaths of the crash. Rear side of the quarter panel is dented inward. It's gonna take some skills and A LOT of elbow grease to get this back in shape.







The rear bumper is demolished, beyond repair. I'll have to replace it. Looks like the impact also dented the hell out of that muffler. Ouch.



After Koro-san handed me the keys, I started it up, took a bit of hard starting, sounded like a bad battery, a dirty MAF, and a dirty/faulty Cam Angle Sensor. BUT, it sounded much beefier than when I last remembered, back with its previous owner. I proceeded to move it out into the light.

Popped the hood, and what was under confirmed my suspicions. This car is no longer powered by an S13 SR20DET, but rather an R33 RB25DET. I thought it was an RB20DET (hence the mistaken header picture caption), but Koro-san walked me through and explained it all. The SR was apparently on its last breath following a bad tune and a limiter bash at a few of Koro-san's sessions, and eventually, cylinder 3 leaned out, destroying the piston head, bending the connecting rod, bending 2 valves, and cracking a hole on the side of the cylinder wall. Unepic. This RB25DET is relatively stock, apart from a red-painted valve cover (RB20 style), An HKS Air Filter, and some generic FMIC from Super Autobacs. Also sports a full Kakimoto Exhaust too, albeit now with a dented tip.



The interior is pretty much the same as when he bought it, with the exception of a new Bride R-Style Bucket Seat, and a modified Cusco Rollcage. The quality of this cage is pretty good, it might've passed through MACKAY's hands at one point, before being bought and fitted by Koro-san haha.







Standard issue relocated battery, as is the norm on S-Chassis.



Aaaaand then there's this gem, it's the OEM Rear Lip, he managed to salvage it after that rear bumper got absolutely crumpled. Since it (obviously) can't be installed right now, it sits on the rear seats.



For some reason I always seem to get into the sellers'/buyers' good graces after I buy or sell cars from/to them, and Koro-san is no exception. First of all, I cajoled him and sympathized about what happened to it. I then proceeded to tell him all of the JUICY plans I have for it, promising to do it justice, that it will look better than it ever did. This is the start of a humble beginning, I mentioned. With that, he was pleased and said, "Name your offer, I trust that you'll give me a price that will leave both of us winning." I let go of my offer, I said that my original plan for this car was to snag it off of him for 480,000 yen (V$4,800), but, since I like him and I wouldn't want him to lose on his end of the deal, I raised it up to 580,000 yen. With Koro-san's grin slowly transitioning into an infectious smile, we shook hands. He even threw me a special favor, he's including all his sets of wheels for this thing! The R33 stockies are no more, sadly. But he's packaging in a whole set of Gram Lights 57Cs, HINODEX FORTECS Squrossas, and R34 stockies (with one damaged wheel from the collision, of course, or at least that's what I thought, because I asked him about it, he said his friend sourced him one in the exact same color as his set! This guy is pretty much as lucky as me.)

And on that pleasant bombshell, I was off. We shook hands once again, and I drove away slowly, as we waved each other goodbye.



Of course I couldn't carry all 3 sets of wheels inside the S14, so I had to come back in my FC1, but that's not important.



Along the way I started getting a feel for the whole car, suspension seems to be in great shape, I was told this has brand new Nismo bushings on. Now there's some slight rubbing when turning hard right, probably due to the bad fender and its liner hitting the tire.



Eventually I had to stop and see if I could remedy the problem at least temporarily. I removed the fender liner and put it in the trunk. Should be good. After that I simply took more pics, because the battle-machine look sort of grew on me. Reminds of the Need For Speed: Pro Street days, with Ryan Cooper and his RMS13 240SX.





And then I was off, again. About a good 40+kms in I saw my fuel gauge drop down to empty, thankfully I was coming up on this ENEOS nearby. Oh yeah, speedometer isn't wired in since the signals are different, at least, that's what Koro-san said, but I think the cluster is broken, partly broken.



Mandatory gas station pic? Mandatory gas station pic.



Full tank? You bet. After this I realized how surprisingly less fuel thirsty the RB25 was compared to my expectations. It's a VCT Motor, but NEO is still non-existent. It sounds HEAVENLY by the way. Real rough, bassy, and beefy. Low RPM pulls still feel rewarding. Enjoyed the car so much in fact, that I started speeding up, and eventually reached the city of Shibuya in less than an hour's time. At which point I phoned up Niatross and Macaron_moon (LS Swap Muzahid & Bento Box Marc) to come and meet me at WestKyo, because I had a SPECIAL SURPRISE FOR THEM, HUE.

Don't tell anyone, but I "accidentally" yeeted my clutch release and "unintentionally" revved the car up to 5k RPMs, "mistakenly" causing the back end to kick out as I drifted the car through 2 (maybe 3?) streets, not on purpose of course.







And yeah, I got closer and closer, (totally not driving harder and more aggressively)





Until I arrived at WestKyo, with a missing rear bumper. I wonder where that went? It surely couldn't have had something to do with my driving, I was SUPER careful. HMMMMM. And anyways, the license plates are inside the glove compartment. (I am grateful to God for his guidance, I didn't get pulled over on this trip.) (Also if y'all see an S14 rear bumper lying on the streets of Shibuya, please throw it away, thanks.)



And there the boiz were. JAWS dropped to the floor. Muzahid dancing and jumping, Marc rubbing his eyes in disbelief. Then I briefed them about it, and we all had a good laugh, after they almost cried from the horrors of this S14's backstory. Which gave Marc the motivation to start building Muzahid's S13 ASAP, and likewise, Muzahid gathered the initiative to complete the 1JZ-GTE swap on his GA70. So I parked the S14 next to their Evos, and called it a day.



Welp, that's it. Thanks for taking the time to read this fairly long RP update. The S15 should be finishing up paint soon, so there's that. And we might be going to Osaka this week as well. Stay tuned, and stay cool VStanced!

Ｐｒｉｄｅ　ａｎｄ　Ｊｏｙ　Ｅｍｏｔｉｏｎ　姻雨流誕

Finances:

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V$V$52,389.52 - V$4,800 + V$940 (Weekly Paycheck x1) + V$7,300 (Law and Accounting Services Payment Received)= V$55,829.52

UPDATES!

Remember when I said C-REX was getting a makeover? Yup!

I brought these home from Osaka, thanks Yuri from the Osaka Honda Community! Bagged these babies for a reasonable 150,000 yen (V$1,500), mint af! And if you haven't already noticed, I took the livery off. Keeping the vibe simple for now, at least until I garner enough ideas for my next livery.

NOW, onto the S15!

Long story short, I straight traded my 17 inch TE37s for Muzahid's 18 inch Weds Kranze Cerberus IIs. Put them on the car ASAP and I say they do clash pretty nicely. I specifically bought these wheels as showcase wheels/spares. So expect to see them on occasions aside from dailying, such as Ebisu tandems, or car meets. I'll be juggling between them and the R34 stockies from time-to-time.

Yeah so anyways, I brought the car to VStanced Garage for the sticker tune. Gave them the stickers and they did the rest.

Before pics:





While waiting I walked over to a nearby The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf for a Southern Blend Iced Tea. Good beverage!! About an hour later, I returned and picked the car up. I WAS SO EXCITED, that I forgot to take pictures at VS Garage. But, don't fret! Paid them the reasonable 7,500 yen (V$75) for labor and materials then drove straight to WestKyo, and mounted the full set of R34 wheels I had, now with some fresh new rubber, none other than some Advan Neova A048s that I bought at Super Autobacs for 120,000 yen (V$1200)! At this point I was contemplating whether to put the caps on or not.

Caps on:





Caps off:





With some serious thonking done, I went with the latter setup, capless ftw! After which I drove to Shibuya, and that's where I stopped and took some pictures.





Then my last stop for that day was my favorite parking lot for pictures, the lighting at night thanks to those light poles is absolutely ASTONISHING.









Let me know what you guys think of the latest Project Strawberry iteration! I'm digging it so far. Also drop those S14 color suggestions down below!

Finances:

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V$68,969.52 - V$1,500 - V$1,200 - V$75 = V$66,194.52

YEEY

More mods have come for FaCe1, the daily Civic FC1! Got myself a fancy Hondata FlashPro to harness the extra unchurned horses under the hood. For V$695, I had it ordered and installed at Spoon's Type One Shop, inclusive of a V$90 dyno session, and around V$300 fabrication and extra parts. 180 hp and 177 lb-ft as advertised.

Figures before the FlashPro? A surprising 180 whp and 175 wtq, bone stock!! Those are some pretty healthy figures.





Now with the FlashPro, new intake, new exhaust, new test pipe. We ended up getting a final figure of 233 whp and 268 wtq! That is a HUGE increase (+53 whp and +93 wtq increase!)

That was super epic. On that happy bombshell I shook the people of Type One's hands and proceeded to my way home. I took a longcut via this winding road pass for extra FUN. It ended up being an impromptu solo touge session, and I enjoyed it a LOT.

ENEOS Pre-Flight Check-Up. Fluids, Check. Transmission, Check. Engine, Check. Suspension, Check. Wheels, Check. Brakes, Check. Happiness, CHECKERINO.



And so it began.









Somewhere near the peak I stopped for a bathroom break. I resumed the trip after about 5 minutes of resting and scenery admiring.





A few more kilometers and I was finally at the peak. Beautiful trees, a calming breeze, and the perfect weather made me feel that I was in my element. I should come back in the S15 or the CR-X or the S14.





After all the slight hooning I was finally at home. Got dressed out of my work clothes and into the casuals, and went ahead to WestKyo

Over there I did some work on C-REX. I finally got around to mounting some Advan Neovas on those TE37s, and installing them on the car. PHENOMENAL. The car feels lighter, more rigid, and more grippy. It's amazing what a good wheel and tire combo can do. 100,000 yen (V$1,000) for a set of 205/50/R15 AD08Rs + free installation. Super worth it!





And now the S14. Apparently, the OEM Kouki Front Bumper I had on it wasn't really OEM at all. I bought some brand new Kouki Bumper Lights off of a nearby Nissan Dealer for 34,000 yen (V$340) and surprisingly, they didn't fit! Brackets were non-existent, and the overall shape didn't even match. So at that point I got myself a genuine OEM Kouki Front Bumper, brand new from Nissan! I paid a hefty 50,000 yen (V$500) for it, luckily the price already included the paint-matching and painting (even though I'll probably repaint this car in another color. But, oh well).

Aside from that, I was also lucky enough to get my hands on a used OEM Kouki Rear Bumper and OEM Kouki Front Grile! 20,000 yen (V$200) and 10,000 yen (V$100) respectively, off Up Garage.

I rattle canned my fenders white just so I could kind of tie the whole look together. Not too bad but will need a thorough respray in the future. Paint was a mere 3,000 yen (V$30) off Super Autobacs.

Last change, the wheels. I swapped out the Fortecs Squrossas for a set of (F:17x9.5 +30 R:17x9.5 +12, wrapped in 235/40/R17 Dunlop Sport Maxx RTs all around) Gram Light 57Cs I had laying around. The offset on these ones are much lower, hence the more aggressive, much better fitment. My Squrossas are now for sale if anyone's interested, V$850 gets em!





And lastly, Project Strawberry. No updates apart from the feedback that it HANDLES AMAZING. Almost stock SR20DET with raised boost, paired with some sticky Advan Neovas A048s and it still manages to slide good! The Tein coilovers are holding up fantastically as well. The only gripe I have is that the WiseFab setup this car has (Nightrunner installed it a while back when it was still his) feels kind of overkill in terms of countersteer steering angle. So I'll be selling the WiseFab Angle Kit as well, I'm also willing to swap this kit to an OEM setup, just slide into my DMs for offers!

Finances:

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V$66,194.52 + V$940 (Weekly Paycheck x1) - V$695 - V$90 - V$300 - V$1,000 - V$340 - V$500 - V$200 - V$100 - V$30 = V$63,879.52

MOSHI MOSHI WE'RE OVER HERE AT EBISU NISHI

Hey there! So yeah this is what you would typically call a continuation or "part 2" of the Ebisu Nishi Session that Niatross initially covered.

Niatross, Nightrunner, Lagano, and I were able to meet-up at Ebisu, and Shez tagged a long too! He was in a rental though because his cars haven't hit Japanese shores yet. More details on Niatross' Part 1 Coverage so G O ! Check it out !

Picking up where we left off, Muzahid (Niatross) and Dominik (Nightrunner) stopped into the pits to rest and check on their rides. Dominik switched the rears to VSKFs on his ER34, while Muzahid did a whole set change to some Fortecs Squrossas on my S14.





When all was said and done they went out for some E P I C . T A N D E M S







Until such time that they had to hit the pits again. My S14 was misfiring so I had to check on it. It turns out the coil pack wasn't seated in right so we took the spark plug cover off, shook it into place, then popped the cover back on.

Here's Muzahid testing it out and warming up the rear tires



Then WHOOP, CLUTCH DUMP! The S14 went FLYING!



After lunging the car forward Muzahid did his best to stop in time, and he did, err, for the most part.

O O P S

DAMAGE CONTROL

R.I.P. side skirts. 2018-2018





Yeahhh we just removed the skirt until later on before the photoshoot where we sort of hacked it back into place.

On the lighter side of things, we all parked next to each other for a brief moment before setting off.

Have a glimpse of Project Strawberry in drift sesh form! Weds Cerberus IIs were my choice of shoes for this event.



Y A P . G O O D . T I M E S .



S T Y L E . M I X !



And that was that. We proceeded to set off into another round. This time, Muzahid and Ziga (Lagano) were side by side, door to door on each other! Rifky (Shez) was riding shotgun in my S14.



ULTRA CLOSE! No damage has been done and I'm glad about that. Although I really wouldn't have cared anyway since the car is in like 50 shades of white which is epic.



Then it was my turn. I was leading in front of Dominik as he chased me throughout Ebisu, with Rifky now riding shotgun in my S15, doing LOUD CHEERS, and EPIC FUN TIME LAUGHS YO

MAXIMUM ATTACK!

So yeah, that's pretty much how it went down. OH WAIT! I was able to snap some pics of some other non-acquainted attendees!

A solid Z32 300ZX which surprisingly, just did a track shakedown, no drifts! Looks like a Wings West Kit, rolling on Uras Exsols.





And then there's this MADMAN. Word on the street is, this Korean migrated to Japan in 2009, same year Hyundai pulled out! And thanks to a few strings pulled, he was able to bring in a Genesis 3.8 Coupe. RAD! It's got some bolt-on flares and it's rolling on what seem to be some wide ass Work Meister L1s.





After that was a JZX100 Mark II Tourer V. ABSOLUTELY. SENDING. IT.



F to that nasty rear impact though.



While it was cooling down, I discovered that this is a 1JZ-GE+T! He used the factory 1JZ-GE block with high compression pistons, and combined it with a 1JZ-GTE Twin Turbo head. Although it has been modified to accommodate a big single setup.



Shortly after I discovered a twin! JZX100 Chaser Tourer V! In much more decent shape.



SOOOOO SEXY on those R34 stockies WOW.



This cleaner example is powered by big single 1JZ-GTE VVT-i, DAMN.



Another good one, a JZS161 Aristo! I wasn't able to see it in action but it was sitting pretty nice. By this time it had already been sunset.





And during our departure at night we spotted a very drift ready S14.





That's it for that drift day! But the morning after I convinced them to meet me at the dock in their best setups so that I could shoot all of us (with a camera, not a gun. Epic.)





Dominik's ER34. Digging the sticker tune, and the Work Emotion T7Rs (Which he calls XT7s) match the look well.



AP Racing silicon under these wheels to help bring the car to 0km/h on a dime.



My ever-evolving but usually broken Project Strawberry S15. Last week I had to get my fuel pressure regulator replaced. And now I hear a ticking noise when the engine is cold, I think the VCT Sprocket is on its way out. But apart from that, she drives like a dream, and slides even more so.







My other project, the S14. There's not much to say about this car, other than a well excuted Kouki facelift, and its miraculous quarter panel resurrection from a painful crash. Muzahid though, he was crying tears of joy at Ebisu, it's as if the prodigal son has returned. He's gotten used to the RB25 since that time he ran over Dominik's side skirt. Says he misses the power, but it isn't a total downgrade. "Sounds HIGH GEWD LAD." He muttered.





And last, but MOST certainly NOT the least, Ziga's S14 Zenki. This thing was WILD at Ebisu, the RB26DETT sounded orgasmic and goes HARD in this RWD coupe. I'm a fan of the livery, especially that Auto Factory Realize Sticker. Opposite Style G O !



His Z33 brakes are bigger than my OEM ones!





We had an absolute BALL during this trip. Lots of shenanigans, good vibes, laughs, and some RAD CARS. TAKE ME BACK PLS! It's a shame Marc (Macaron_moon) wasn't able to go, but he had other personal plans to attend to, more on that on his upcoming RP update!

YUP, end of the line. That's all the coverage I have for you folks, thanks for tuning in! I'll have more updates on my cars soon!

Finances:

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V$63,879.52 + V$940 (Weekly Paycheck x1) + V$3,300 (Accounting Services Payment Received, Bookkeeping and Financial Advice) = V$68,119.52