Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Wrench Day - A33 Maxima

I will start this off by saying that I will never in my life purchase an Eibach product. I'm not sure how often this happens, but my buddy Zeead has broken TWO consecutive Eibach springs. How shitty can your products actually be? It's not like the kid is auto-crossing or anything either. They just break during normal usage. Total shit.

Anyway. So he calls me up and we tear into his (gorgeous) 2002 Maxima which has been left crippled by the incompetence of Eibach.

From Project Maxima


2 days later we finally get the wheels off (lol long story) and we can finally get to work.

From Project Maxima


The front driver side spring broke and tore the shit out of his front tire.

From Project Maxima


He had to wire it in with a coat hanger to keep it in line.

From Project Maxima


Zeead dropping the rear suspension. ha ha

From Project Maxima


From Project Maxima


Me being baller... as usual.

From Project Maxima


With the suspension dropped it was clearly lunch time.

Introducing the Triple Whiplash Whopper!
BOOYAH!

From Project Maxima


This is the BK Suspension Mod everyone has been talking about.

From Project Maxima


Fully adjustable camber.

From Project Maxima


Zeead adjusting the damper.

From Project Maxima


Back to work after lunch Zeead was all business. We installed the Tien H-Techs in place of that busted Eibach nonsense.

From Project Maxima


Compressing the spring so we can uninstall it from the strut.

From Project Maxima


Piece of cake! (4 hours later)

From Project Maxima



Hey Z, any final thoughts for Eibach and their quality control division??

From Project Maxima


Yup. That's what I thought...

Friday, May 21, 2010

Hakosuka - Ready for war

SHAMELESS REPOST!!!


Saw this pic on the Mighty JDM Legends blog and my mouth dropped and I got that "special tingle".

From Dirty S30



Do yourself a favor and go check out the actual post... And buy yourself a sweet JDM ride while your at it!



JDM Legends Blog

Monday, May 17, 2010

Wheels Painted

Due to my chronic lack of build funds I used this past weekend to paint my wheels. These are stock from an S130 (280ZX). They came with the car so they will due for now.

They needed a little something to tie them into my Grey primer color scheme.

From Z


From Z


From Z


I have a brake line swap coming up. Wait till you see how bad my lines are haha.

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Broken Brakes

As you could see from my Inspection, my brake lines are on their way out. I am trying to keep my driving to a minimum until I get them sorted.

Today I stumbled across a deal that I just could not pass up!

$20!

From Z


Can't wait!

Monday, May 3, 2010

Z34 Love

Shot this at the UMass Motorsports Club car show this past weekend.
First time I've really been able to inspect one of these.

From UMass Motorsports Car show 5-1-2010


From UMass Motorsports Car show 5-1-2010


From UMass Motorsports Car show 5-1-2010


These are growing on me big time lately.

Dope 2002

Drove out to UMass Amherst this weekend to check out the UMass Motorsports Club car show. Not a huge turn out but there were some really nice cars.

The real show stopper was a fully resto-modded 1972 BMW 2002. This thing was absolutely gorgeous.

From UMass Motorsports Car show 5-1-2010


From UMass Motorsports Car show 5-1-2010


From UMass Motorsports Car show 5-1-2010


From UMass Motorsports Car show 5-1-2010


From UMass Motorsports Car show 5-1-2010


The guy made me get down on the ground to look underneath it and damn am I glad I did. This guy put in some serious work and it showed.

From UMass Motorsports Car show 5-1-2010