Nakai's Night; Parker's Prestige
To even start with this, there needs to be heaps on context laid out.
For starters, late last year, I purchased a wrecked 1972 Porsche 911S. It was the most obnoxious shade of yellow a Porsche was ever sold in, and I loved it.
So much, I spent roughly ten thousand dollars restoring it. It was one of the most fun projects I've had, and thanks to my connections through SpeedHunters, I got to work alongside Magnus Walker on this car.
Once she was finished, I dubbed her the "Widowmaker".
Thankfully, I'm unmarried.
It was a cloudy day in Los Angeles after a rainy night, the roads were still slick with puddles dotted all over the blacktop.
I gave it just a little too much gas on a on-ramp, the rear came around, and there was nothing I could do.
Then, I sold it to a close friend Parker, or, ThatBoostedGuy, who promised me he would take it to it's former glory, and more.
To his credit, he did. But, since I'm a journalist, I need to feed my own ego a bit as well: This couldn't have happened without my connections through SpeedHunters.
Now, how exactly do you bring a former glory Porsche back to it's roots before a wreck, yet higher at the same time?
If you were Parker and I, the words "Rauh-Welt Begriff" came to mind.
A few calls up the chain, and Nakai-San was on his way to sunny California to transform my former Porsche.
And this; is the result of it all.
As a cool dude, and as a SpeedHunter, and as the former owner of this car, I proudly present to you: RWB Sakyubasu.
Sakyubasu, or サキュバス, is the Japanese word for Succubus; a female demon that uses her beauty to lure in victims, before she kills them with stunning brutality.
Parker, Nakai, and I found it a nice tie between the car's old name, and how it had gone from my ownership to Parker's.
Before this was undertaken, I didn't really realize how in-depth RWB conversions were. As the car rests today, only the unibody, engine, doors, brakes, and interior are the same as when the car was owned by me.
Do I mind? Not at all.
As with all the RWB Narro style kits, Nakai applied fenders, rockers, front and rear bumpers, and the "Whale-Tail" trunk to the body.
After that, was the suspension. The stock arms and coilovers were removed after the Fifteen52s that the car wore in it's previous life. Then, came the Aragosta suspension, followed by some of the widest street car wheels I've ever seen. For reference, my own FC runs 16 x 10 Fifteen52 wheels, but this car takes it to something else.
On the front, like my car, the Porsche runs 10 inch wide wheels. But, the wider rear fenders have to be filled out one way or another, no?
12.5. Twelve and a half entire inches across, on the SSRs that make up the rear.
It runs 295 tires on the rear, and 265s on the front.
It goes without saying, I'm very confident the car won't step out on these treads like mine did.
The engine was untouched from when I had it, but, no worries, the 2.7 liter flat six isn't stock. When restoring it, once I got it to crank I jumped at the chance to install 46mm PMO carburetors and a custom straight pipe exhaust. Needless to say, it pulls a bit harder than it did back in 1972.
So, not only does it park hard, it also pulls hard.
Nice. Also, those who follow my personal blog are gonna get excited when I mention this part: Remember how I said that the FC would finally get a wing soon?
Yeah boyos! It's finally happened!
I had the piece custom molded while I was dealing with the fallout of crashing the Porsche, and it ironically arrived the night before I took to Temecula to see Parker's Porsche come to life.
And it looks.... good.
Nah, it looks freaking amazing, that's what it is!
The morning after, after Phoenexius and Driftphantom, who also helped out, were given their t-shirts and stickers, and began to head home, I quickly ran Nakai over to LAX in the FC, newly bewinged with his help.
On the way back, Parker invited me to hit GMR with him.
So, I did.
It really goes without saying, but this is probably the best experience I've had around cars, ever.
Now let's try to smash that with something even greater.
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