fresh local meat.

went out to a local 240sx meet with members from bc240.com on sunday and thought i'd throw up some pics. (no www, just straight bc240.com) it was a pretty standard meet/cruise. met at burnaby mountain, cruise down to belcarra area, chilled some more. a meet like that happens once a month usually on the second sunday. good to meet new people, get help with any projects as well as inspiration and ideas. i rolled out with a friend of mine, adam yueno, who drive's an S14 with a kouki front end and a nifty paint job. he's got an S13 redtop under the hood with a gt2871R and microtech along with other bells and whistles. he just got the tranny redone and is back on the road, finally.

another note worthy motor that was there, was jamie's setup. a freshly rebuilt s13 redtop SR20det with a full tomei turbo kit. tomei everything basically. cams, RAS, exhaust manifold, gt2530 turbo, turbo elbow.. as well as some nice greddy pieces and a candy-licious red paint job. cleanest motor i've seen in a long time, and he's just peaking over 500 km on the motor! so young.. he's also rollin on some XD9's in the chrome finish (extra $$$ per wheel). same specs as my fronts, 17x9.5 +17 but he's got em on all 4 corners and has stock body. one of my fav local cars for sure.

onto the pics.

Wing the wong numba?

nope. the right one!

been a while since the last entry. hmmm

work is pickin up a bit. thats a blessing for sure. been having lots of great summer days and nights with liz (always awesome). car's runnin great. would like to get a better handle on the cooling situation in the engine bay tho. need to get a fan shroud like yesterday :S

BUT! got my wing back. woohoo! finally. i've waited more than a year to rock such a cool wing on my car. its nifty. i've seen a couple in america, but none in canada. maybe i'm the first? it was made in japan by g-corp/326. one of my favorite non super drift wings. nice and aggressive and street style. fits the wide body great. very similar to a type-x wing which came on the japan 240's (180sx) but wider and more aggressive styling. paint matched to my orange by a great friend Steve Thompson down at O.Z. Designs in burnaby. he does amazing work. and thats an understatement.

anyways. some pics of said winger.

i spy with my little eye, something that is wing.



neptune-D tag's - pete shroeder's shop in burnaby. another rad guy who's know's his stuff.

jail time at cell block D.

sunday was a very fun day with my car. entered my first drift event with a buddy of mine, matt froese - Cell Block D. WHAT A BLAST! it was so much fun! track was nothin special, an oval with 2 banked turns. the turns were decent size tho. you definately had to maintain the drift. awesome experience. a couple of our friends made it out and were cheerin us on. praise god neither of us crashed. walls were scuffed up from lots of other people gettin nasty already. i came close during my second lap of the day, but after that nothing too crazy. 2 other guys crashed. lots of nice cars there. skylines (r32's, gts-es, and one was a 4 door) were killin it! such amazing driving. couple toyoda 'rollas. an fc with a 1j in it. fun times for sure. car felt great. it rained the whole time but i like slidin in the rain, easier on the rubber/wallet. i ran the 17x9.5's in the rear with fairly fresh rubber. car handled great. mainly stayed in the top of second gear around the corners for sliding. it was nice to have an actual corner that was long and gave you something to aim for. scary cuz of the walls (didn't wanna smash up at my first event) but great cuz you don't gotta worry about on coming drivers/coppers/private property/security. so glad i went. hope i get to go to more.

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drift pics. courtesy of Gaelen Norman. (i'll post matt's up when i get those)

matt's car, gettin'er done.



myself, after a spin out.



got it this time. comin out nice and smooth



hiding out in the pits.

June what and we're snowboarding at seymour.

on a car related note i'm having issues with the timing. i thought i set it all to stock yesterday.. (it was outta wack, i dunno how. something needs to be sorted out!) so ya, i set it to stock, and about 17 degrees. used a timing light, drove it a couple times testing this and tweaking it a couple times till it felt right. so drove it outta there and it was good for a day. put new spark plugs in, checked fluids. everything is good. so i'm thinking maybe an ecu problem or fuel pump/filter/fpr (fuel pressure regulator). the fpr is prolly old and i would like an upgrade. the filter is stock, 300zx's are a nice upgrade too hmmm. and the fuel pump i am unsure if its a good 255 flowing one or not. so may as well replace that too. ugggggghhhhh... add those to the shopping list. it never ends :)

anyways.

so its june whatever today and i went up with a couple buddies and went snowboarding at Mt. Seymour! there was snow everywhere! even down from the main parking lot. i was really surprised and happy! we set up a ribbed sewage style pipe and a sheet of plywood to play on. ghetto setup for the win! it was a little foggy at first but sooooo much fun to be back on the shred stick. alex threw down a front two-sev and right after him jf threw down a front two-sev on two-sev off. needless to say, both tricks were done with madd steez and stomped like nobody's business. then the session was really on. 180's in and out of everything. switch this, press that. tap it. revert it. slide it. stomp it. you name it, it was goin down. heres some pics of the joy that was had.

the setup:



alex spinning a 270 on



myself, nollie-ing out of a nosepress



jf DESTROYING a backside tailslide fakie



and myself gettin low on a backtail.

holy hotness batman. winter?

what the flip? its only the end of may and we're hitting temps of +27?!?! does anyone else remember our record breaking snowfall we had this last season? we had a few weeks of magic when there was fresh snow and it was fun cuz it was deep. but then it didn't stop. and people just let it pile up on their cars. and then the cars disappeared in the snow banks. i LOVED it. my little work truck was a blast. ya it was RWD but i had snow tires. BALLIN'!!

but then it got ugly. the snow got dirty and wasn't going away anytime soon. streets were in desperate need of plowing. i remember spending a good 4 hours late one night with my bro's and dad helpin people just get off our street! good times.

anyways. that was winter. today was HOT. i'm in the roofing business so being up there is like workin in an oven all day. sittin on a cooking sheet and not gettin flipped over so your back just BAAAAAKES. i love it tho. get to be outside, meet new people all the time, work with my hands, and actually get to provide a great service to people. cuz i'm a legit worker in the roofing business. i know lots of companies are out there rippin people off and it sucks. sucks for the customers and the legit workers out there cuz we get a bad rep cuz of them! i treat the customer's home like its my own. i don't want my roof leaking. so i do what needs to be done so it don't leak. (good english like my brother clark)

and actually i never liked summer that much until liz came into my life. now i LOVE summer! we do so many awesome things together in summer and its the greatest time ever. whenever i even think of summer i'm always reminded of the first summer i spent chasing her which eventually led to our relationship. days at the lake. passing the throwing disc around. our first "unofficial" date where we were the 2 "singles" with 2 other couples. we had a blast tho! man. cars, snowboarding, everything. every thing comes and goes. that's why they are things. but love. true love. i believe in that stuff. it lasts forever. you gotta look after it tho. you gotta always pursue it. dang this entry is gettin long and deep. time to cut the embilly cord. this baby is done for today.

a pic from the first summer spent with liz. us at the fireworks!

FN01RC up front.

some pics of the new wheels up front. i'm really happy with the fitment. a narrower rim than the work wheels and a slightly lower offset. XD9's were 17x9.5 +17, and now the fronts are 17x9 +15. its nice tho. i no longer rub at full lock and i like that the front wheels don't poke as much as before. plus now i get major DK points for running 2 sets of wheels. HAR HAR..

on a sad note, my buddy matt sold his car. its good for him tho. i know he'll miss it but selling it makes him happy. it was a beast, my goodness! probably making around 300 ponies. he had a full microtech standalone engine management system and a GT2871R with all the goodies for power. like FMIC, bigger injectors and all the fancy stuff. his engine bay was niiiiiiice. on the outside he had rims, but sold them first and then sold the car. so in its final days it was a sleeper. here's some recent pics of my wheel change and the last day matt drove his car.









matt's car





my car waving goodbye to matt's car.. :*(

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on a car related note, got some new rubber mounted on a different pair of wheels for up front. wheels are nothing JDM TYTE, but still cool in my opinion. 5zigen FN01RC 17x9 +15 with 215/45 mounted on em. a healthy stretch for the rubber, nothing to cRaZy. its nice runnin a 17x9 instead of a 9.5 up front so i dont rub at full lock. guess i'll pound out the fenders next time i got the front up with the wheels off. just didn't feel like doin a whole lot today. need to take the one wheel that got clipped to get checked for proper balance and such. hopefully its not a write off. no pics yet of the new wheels mounted up, but here's what they look like without rubber.