Photoshoot samples

Last Monday was a fun, but very long day of magazine shoots. Had fun in the arvo driving around with Ignition DVD - cameras mounted to my car much to the bemusement of onlookers lol... and in the late arvo and evening for a brilliant photoshoot with Rick McDowell for HPI magazine!

Hope you like the photos below - they blew me away when i got them emailed to me the other day! It just goes to show what a good photographer can do with your car!! Cheers to Rick for giving me the ok to post a couple of samples up here of his shots, which will feature in an upcoming edition of HPI :)

(was gonna reduce the file size... but figured id leave a few good size pics up here in all their high res glory - so sorry to anyone on dialup!)

Click pics for high res image:

Engine bay bits, bracing, rear brakes, diff, and 274rwhp :)

As the varietta in stock form was non-LSD, we finally tracked down a sweet diff option. As this project is about streetable acceleration and response on the road rather than top end power (hence the choice of turbo), we went for a nice VLSD 4.363:1 ratio diff centre out of a CA18DET S13, inside an s15 housing :)

This makes a huge difference in on-road acceleration - and I'm loving the response even more now... as well as actually having traction with the VLSD!

The rear R33 GTST brakes were also fitted and handbrake etc so the brake upgrade is now complete :) A Nismo Power Brace was also fitted to the underbody for some added rigidity, along with a strut brace.

Finally got a chance to throw her on the dyno quickly on Friday afternoon as well. It wasnt an ideal day for it a 40 degrees, but with only 12psi running through her I was very happy with 274.6rwhp! :) I've sourced a PFC dejetro, which will go in with injectors etc so it will be good to see how she dyno's again then with a bit more boost able to be dialed up safely :P

And last on the list of priorities before upcoming photoshoots was some prettying up of the engine bay, with Tomei plug cover and oilcap, carbon fibre strut brace, Topstage cf ABS heatshield, and Greddy air-diversion plate.

Go to wo upgrades!

Just another short update - but a good one... i've upped the 'go' and also upped the 'wo' at the same time (upped the boost and upgraded the brakes!)

Brake details in the last post... so just a pic of them fitted (with new pads and DBA rotors) - all nice and shiny behind the rims:



And just a pic of the Greddy E-01 boost controller fitted... didnt get time to do a dyno run - but there's now 1 bar running through the GT28RS - makes one hell of a difference over stock boost!! :)



Big box arrived from japan this week too - always a nice thing to come home to :) I fitted a carbon strut brace today and a tomei oil cap, and will book her in for a couple of weeks time for fitting of the nismo power brace and do-luck b-pillar brace... some added chssis rigidity will be nice!

Brakes painted and ready to go

Just a small update...

With the Variettas only coming stock with 2 pot fronts and single pot rear brakes, an upgrade was needed now that the engien conversion was done. So I hunted round the wreckers and scored some R33 GTS-T front and rear brake calipers nice and cheap for $250 the lot :)

The guy who had owned the car they were ripped off had done a dodgy spray-can red job - everything was red, clips and all.. peeling, overspray, underspray, runs, dirt... but they were cheap so meh

I spent a while deciding between black or brembo gold for repainting them, but with the new rims having a gold centre cap, thought id see how the brembo gold looks behind the rims.

So cheers to AFM Enterprises in Osborne Park for an incredible job removing every spec of dodgy red paint and then applying a nice 2 pac paintjob in brembo gold to them.

These will be fitted/converted early next week along with new pads and DBA rotors, and the fitting my turbo timer and my E-01 EBC and a few other bits and pieces... as well as dialling up the boost to get the disco potato cooking! :)

I've also got a few goodies (carbon strut brace, heat sink cover, and Nismo Power Brace) on the way over from Japan, plus a few other plans in the works that will hopefully see some bigger updates soon...