New Best 1/4 mile

Installed some new parts on Keira so it was time to see the difference. I installed a TPI air foil which I didn't expect anything from and March under drive pulleys which made the engine feel a lot more responsive with better mid range.

I didn't improve as much as expected but consider my run had an average 60' and not the best trap speed with shitty gas, a 13.602 is a definite sign of improvement.

 

This car has some serious rubber!

And I started mocking up flares on Megan

Silvia Interior

Reupholstered the driver side door. Looks better but was not fun so I may do something simpler for the pass side

Silvia Improvements Underway

So I decided to begin my winter work on Megan with something simple. I removed the aero mirrors and painted them a gloss black which is an improvement over the flat black primer.

Before Pic!

Before picture for the records

Scraped my first 240, Cal's Bmw, Silvia Chilling

Well I am officially down to owning 3 cars as I have just scraped my very first 240 :(

I still love how it looked lowered, pignose front bumper and black rocker guard, it could have been bad ass with some wheels and more low.

The day i got it home

Cal's BMW is coming along, going to help him today finish the brakes and hopefully exhaust

Silvia still being DD

Winter Plans Already?!

I always plan my projects well in advance and right now I can't wait to get started on this one.

I’m happy with how the Silvia looks presently but I feel it’s far short of my dream. So planned for winter is fender flares (not over fenders) which I have kicking around already that will be painted black to go with the cars theme. To fill the fenders I’m thinking something such as Work VS-KF’s in burning black, hopefully financed by a massive parts sale that I plan on doing in the coming weeks. Besides wheels and body work I only expect to be purchasing 5lug hubs, and rear Z32 brakes.

<3 Wheels

Bald Tires and Massive Fender Gap...

The Silvia has been taking a well deserved beating while being DD for the past 2 1/2 months and I can definitely say I'm proud of how reliable its been the entire time.

However I should check the tires more often :p

So now for the time being I'm running my R compounds that i normally use for drag

Corvette is running, sounds wicked at idle with open headers, but its just unbearable when driving so I need to find an exhaust shop pronto.
The vette needs a few more things before I'm happy with it, such as fixing this fender gap. Seriously how did such an acclaimed sports car have such a ridiculous gap.

Updates

 Well after headaches with the passenger side header install I opted to purchase a mini-starter. Simply waiting on the mini-starter and AIR delete bracket to arrive now, and sadly neither company gave me the option to expedite the shipping even after clarifying shipping price is not an issue and one company couldn't even get back to me on approx arrival date. Based on my experience I do not recommend www.tpis.com for Canadian buyers however they may get a second chance and Ultimate Corvette Parts didn't fair better especially for being based in Ontario Canada.

In my spare time I've been helping my buddy Calvin with his E30 project. Lets just say this thing will be insane!!!! Key words to describe it: Slammed/Stretched/Turbo M30/Work's/Art

Picked up some tires for the vette, and for Cal's beast courtesy Samson at GB Tires

And the silvia is chilling

Bings Meet

Lots of People, cool cars, great people, crappy weather but all and all a good time. Thanks Bing

hopefully you can see the pics without reg

Bings Meet

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Awesome Pics (thanks Tim S.)
wilwmak's Flicker: Bings Meet



Video (my car is first in vid)

YouTube video of the cars parked

2 Cars at Once?

Well tonight I finally finished the front sway bar on the vette so I'll do the write up Good Friday while I'm recovering from the previous party night in Toronto. Also managed to pop the hood on Megan (silvia/240), checked the turbo elbow for cracks, and just refreshed my memory on things to do. 

May 1st is the big annual "Bing's Meet" where the true 240 and Nissan owners congregate. Last year I won the award for People's Choice and I don't plan on a repeat, once is good enough. Its time for the car to build more character then style if you know what I mean. I do plan to fix Megan up prior to the meet with the basic TLC and probably redo the cracked front lip, and maybe I can find a shop to cut and weld my fenders and mount the flares. I don't have the tools to do the flares on my own so I'll bite the bullet and hope they do it right but still need to find a shop in short notice