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For those really keen / entrants a few will be meeting at calwell shops at 5am for a 5.15am departure

No dinner for me. Just show n shine and air port runs

who is taking day trips saturday and sunday?

anything under 315 on the rear is homo spec...just saying

who owns a gunmetal r32 gtr and works in Deakin

for all those on the infamouse stalkbook (facebook). jump onto JCI page and vote for my car on the rate my ride section! https://www.facebook.com/justcar/130...04&app_data=73

no one does ceramic coatings in canberra. in fact no one in australia really does ceramic coating. places like hi-octane etc do ceramic powdercoatings (which is more than sufficient for any street or even basic track car) real ceamic coatings are white as seen on the likes of F1 cars etc and they have the price to suit that high end racing too. I sent my stuff to high octane coatings. i packed them up and they arranged for it to be picked up. didnt take them long to send them back either. quality and service were top notch. they can also complete your powdercoating for rocker covers etc here is what i sent them: how they sent it back: final product:

Recently I’ve attended a couple car shows in Sydney. One was The-Lowdown’s “showcased at fox studios. The second was Sydney’s MotorEx. The Showcased was great event. I drove up and back on the same day so it certainly was a long day! Left at 6am and returned home around 10pm. This show was held at Fox Studioes in Sydney on roof top of a huge multi storey carpark. It was set out like many of the Californian shows we have seen over the internet with high tech JDM cars, USDM full track cars as well as cars with crazy wheel offsets. It was an awesome atmosphere full of friendly faces! There were some absolute standout cars like wide body 400kw s15s, R34 GTRS, RX7s and a ton of evos. Gorilla and I held the supra flag as high as we could. There was also JDMST’s EOMM that took 2 levels below of more awesome cars. It was good to see a few supras and an 86 (as well as a few other Toyotas) mixing it up with masses of Nissans, Subaru’s and Mitsubishi’s down there. I was completely shocked to hear my car announced to win “Best in Show” for the event especially considering the calibre of cars on display. A couple pics: more here: THE-LOWDOWN.com: SHOWCASED + JDMST June EOMM! Sponsored by Xtreme Motorsports The next show was MotorEx at Homebush bay. This show is affectively the most highly modified cars you will see in the country however 95% are old v8s and hot rods. Some of these cars and bikes have had close to $1M spent on them but to me it’s a waste as they don’t do anything other than roll on and off a enclosed trailer. Some even go the extent of wrapping brand new tyres in glad wrap so not even dust will get on the tread :S. That said the level of detail on these cars is nothing short of extraordinary! Some are true masterpieces. The “tuner” and “street” section is something to be desired as a 2000hp SC big block with number plates is still able to enter street classes :S. the tuner cars are also, unfortunately, tainted by 2SUS and Queen St style sex spec cars. Pretty much to get anywhere it needs to be all bling with house of colour paint. Nevertheless there was still an awesome crowd and huge amount of cars to check out! I was asked to entre with the Sydney Allstars and Zen Garage stand. We had my car, a M3, Lamborghini Murcielago, Honda Integra type R race car, race spec s14 200sx, wide body s15 and the best of all, a classic Hakosuka GTR! Here a couple pics: The only car with wider tyres than my car…405s!!!!!!! more here: Motorex x ALL STARS 2012 Meguiar's MotorEx - The Greatest Rides on Show! - Gallery While at MotorEx I was approached by Turbosmart to have the car on their display at World Time Attack in a few weeks. Unfortunately I’ve had to withdraw as I’m off to Fiji first thing the following morning ! Next thing lined up for it will be the Shannons Snowy Mountains 1000 being held at Cooma airport. Putting another 10psi of boost in it for that so hopefully I crack the 250km/h mark and even get into the 20 second mark!

Its been awhile since ive put anything up on here so since i have some time off i thought I'd update it. Over the Easter I attended the Toyota Nationals in Dubbo. All in all it was great fun and well worth it. That said with work and uni comitments, the prep weeks prior to the event were extremely stressful. Big thanks to Dustin for spending more hours under the car helping get things ready! Due to entering the motorkhana and drags i wanted to install a few new parts. so the list prior to the event looked a little like this: Install HKS oil cooler and filer relocation Install power steering cooler Install TRD thermostat install spal 13" push fan to replace the removed a/c condenser fan Install line locker complete oil change radiator flush and all new coolant + water wetter bleed brakes and clutch Test fit motorkhana wheels (set of 18s that the mrs father has sitting around the shed) refit front bar including fixing broken brackets from hitting gutters once or twice general clean including new floor mats (finally) get spare wheels and jack to a mate taking a trailer to dubbo and of course pack the car with spare fluids, fuel, tools cleaning crap, tent, clothes and helmet Due to work i ended up with 4 days to complete everything, not 2 weeks as originally planned. After the normal hick-ups everything was in and ready to go by 11.30pm the night before i was due to meet everyone at 6am for the drive up. Fortunately taking our time paid off and there were no issues, leaks etc. Arrive in dubbo friday ready to settle in, wash and polsih the car ready for the show'n'shine on saturday morning...plus a few beers to finish the day and talk shit half the night with everyone. Arrived at the show'n 'shine, pop the bonnet and walk over to the guys in front to sit down. suddenly steam is pissing out of the engine bay and i start to freak out. realise the blocked water nipple rubber piece has died and a hair line crack is spraying water onto the exhaust manifold. Freaking out i start gathering a list of parts to replace and scam a ride to the local autobarn. $40.00 later and a bit of roadside bush mechanics all was fixed for a $3.00 part. Leave show'n'shine and heap off to change wheels over ready for the motorkhana. Motorkhana was great fun. Hit positive pressure once and managed to finish one out 6 courses. That said doing donuts were just as fun Saturday night...big night!! Sunday drags. Started with shit wheels and tyres to test the line locker out. the lack of traction and driving ability meant the 345s were on after a couple runs. turns out 345s make more smoke (very expensive smoke!!!) still didnt help my soft driving but nevertheless great fun day. Sunday night was the awards dinner and a quite night before the drive home Monday. In the end i ended up winning four awards. Best Coupe, Best Engine Bay, Best Exterior and Best Modified. After that the car didnt move for a couple weeks. I then cleaned it up and installed a long awaited false floor into the boot of the car. formally it was a mixture of original red paint, dynamat and some other crap thats been in there over the past 12 months. Cleaned the car again and entered a local MeaACT event (sound off/ showy type event) where i managed to score judges choice and a few pointers to make the stereo sound better (simple things like rcas the right way around etc haha) Now i need to save (while in process of buying an apartment) for more boost! also need to install a Defi gauge thing that i ran out of time prior to dubbo to install (big thanks to Mr Gameon for getting it across the lake in almost record time) Here a some pics... more to come. also pictures of the event are up on ashtone photography's website including a few smoke screens from the drags here are some more pics.... oil cooler kit Install davis criag p/s cooler mounted cooling results 345 desk storage the broken rubber stop

Haha sorry mate. I've been asked to enter the street elite section inside. There's no chance it will win anything inside as I gets driven to much so too many faults to pick haha. Should be a good weekend! Mine was the grey supra next to Shane's (gorilla)

Thanks mate. Yes to my surprise i won Best in Show. It was something i certainly wasnt expecting considering the quality of cars on display for the event. it certainly made the 5am start and drive from Canberra worth it in the end! I haven't really seen a great deal of pictures of my car on the JDMST gallery section. It was a great event and now I'm really keen for motorEx towards the end of this month!

Was an awesome event. The black nur that arrived at the same time i did was stunning!

these is for those of you with toyotas still in your garage. im selling a heap of crap that built up over the years. see something you want just make an offer as i wont it gone... http://www.supraforums.com.au/forum/parts-sale/78711-long-weekend-garage-clean-out-parts-sale.html

Bring it on!

See you guys there. I'm brining the supra up for the day.

yeah ok

It was good to see us imports all rejected to the back corner! Definitely seemed bigger than previous years however after 12 it really does tapper off quickly

Haha more so for gtrs and dodgy oil pumps! I'm getting coffee at 8am in Woden then heading im cleaning the car when i get there

just so your all aware the venue has changed due to all the rain it is now at thoroughbred park mitchell, entrance of Randwick road. Marshalls will be there to point everyone to the right place. start is same time as they want all cars parked by 9.30ish

James you wont dress up like The dictator!!

i might have to utilise my NSW club membership and join you guys on this if no toyota people want to participate!

Silver r33 gtr opening it up down erindale dr. Sounded good.

Spotted a white 34 gtr on Benjamin way and red 35 on belconnen way haha

Does a bayside blue gtr owner work for CSIRO? Ive seen a heap of r33 gtrs lately

The Low-Down.com has just released my car onto their website. http://www.the-lowdown.com/widebody-supra/ everyone jump on and check it out! sample pic...