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Mark’s 200sx s14a – stance required pls!

Posted: Wednesday 1st September 2010 | No comments | Your thoughts or comments?...

Haven't had a chance to get any photos of my mate Mark's s14a the other day, so I thought I'd take my chance. He was also cheeky enough to ask if he could do his oil change at my place! "So long as I can take photos and not get oily, then sure" I said

His UK-spec '99 200sx s14a is pretty clean to be honest, although stock-ish looking from the outside, under the hood its rocking on an Apexi air filter, some kind of chip (maybe custom), and the stock T28 turbo, so all in perhaps just-shy of 300bhp. Nice.

I quized him for a proper spec list, but it turned out to be "stocker" than I thought…

1999 Nissan 200sx s14a
Stage 1 chip
BC Racing Coilovers
Apexi Air Filter
Apex (we think) full exhaust system
Greddy FMIC
(some kind of) Boost controller
Alpine DVD/MP3 headunit

His future plans include carbon bootlid, bumpers and sideskirts, a lot more low (but still drivable he nods), and of course some sick wheels – probably 18×10 Rota GTR-D's in matte black. I told him this has to happen, and that when it does, I will document it

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JDM Allstars Wembley Drift 2010 – My photos part 1

Posted: Tuesday 31st August 2010 | No comments | Your thoughts or comments?...

As I said on my previous post then, headed up to watch the JDM Allstars at Wembley stadium on Sunday and it was amazing. The drive up went pretty well, apart from a small detour which cost me about 3mm more off of my chassis rail's due to speedbumps bigger than a block of flats!

Anyway, we arrived at the nearby McDonalds where we found a random collection of drift cars scattered across the car park. Shame I didn't get photos of this, it looked pretty awesome. Met Bolf and Daniel Bridle, then headed for the Wembley stadium car park, where we parked up in "car model" groups (s-bodies, skylines, toyota's, etc)

Headed up into the pit area and wondered around, mainly drooling at the fit cars and occasionally saying hello to the odd familiar face or two.

Ended up helping Jungle Power (Kenny) most of the day, since one of my mates Mark is basically his only "pit crew"/spanner-man. He rocked out some red tyres and did a burn out for a laugh mid-way through the day. Got a rollocking for it, but worth it!

Then later in the day, Kenny went out again with the red tyres and ran the wall good and hard

I'll do another post shortly with some proper action shots!

Oh, and PS: Ignore the sig in the bottom-right corner of these photos, I made a bit of a mistake and used the Blackett Photography sig that I used for the photos he took of me at Supra Pod! My bad lol

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Touge Automotive sticker. Its badass!

Posted: Monday 30th August 2010 | 1 Comment | Your thoughts or comments?...

Went to the JDM Allstars Wembley drift event on Sunday, epic day! Got loads of photos and some videos, so you'll see all these shortly.

For now though, a couple shameless snaps of my s13 "the day after". Said Hi to the guys over at Touge Automotive, bought a sticker from them (at a bit of a discount, on the basis of doing this blog post!), and stuck it on!