GT-1 aero

If you have read earlier posts of mine, you would understand the struggle I've had with getting an authentic GT-1 bumper. I've been trying to get my hands on this bumper since March of 2016, and to date, I still do not have one. First had problems with a company known as Right Hand drive, …

FCM Street Style

Now that it was a season where I could actually drive the car, and now that my I had somewhere to sit, I figured it was time to do some body work. I had asked a friend from work, who happens to be a red seal welder, dealing mostly with the exotic metals, if I …

The Throne of God

Picking at the car slowly, when one day after work I stumble upon an auction too good to give up. A minty red Bride maxis. As I mentioned earlier on, the original plan was to go with a Bride Proface driver seat and the Cuga Japan edition seat as a passenger seat. I was trying …

Ridgeback

There is a story to almost every part I have, some better than others. While browsing the internet looking at drift events, forums, etc, I stumbled upon a picture of a car that grabbed my interest. But there was something very different about this car, that I absolutely loved, and wanted extremely badly.   After …

Custom Dashboard DIY

Spring 2016 Spring time came, and it was time to start work on the car again. When I got in the car, I had noticed my recently flocked dash, had cracked again. Wasn't very happy about having to take out the dash again, and I figured the cracks came from my not so professional job …

Talk the Talk and Walk the Walk

My timeline here is a bit off, before I parked it away for the winter, I managed to order and fit a set of spacers as I was going wide body.  And parked her away for the Canadian winter we all love.  There would be no work done on the the car until spring, but …

DIY guide – s13 Door Cards – Doing it the right way

With the leatherwork out the way, it was time to reupholster my interior panels, but this time the correct way. By now I had learned well, that nothing goes perfect when working on a car, and expect to do things multiple times before its right. A summer ago, I decided to upholster my door trim …

DIY Wrapping Steering Wheel in Fresh Leather

By attempting to dodge the frustration caused by the restoration of the headlights, I moved onto another thing that required some tlc. I managed to track down an oldschool D-shape nismo steering wheel, made by personal. I got on contact with a leather shop in Canada, that was able to get me some perforated leather, …

The Eyes of Horus – アブフラッグ/Abflug Headlights

By now snow had fallen so I was waiting for parts to come in, waiting for rare parts to pop up for sale, and still trying to figure out some exact details for what I wanted to to to the interior of the car. After looking at the dream works 180sx, and Jesse Streeter's own …

YAJ finds… A Rare Parts Fanboy Emerges

Now that I knew what I wanted to do for aero, I had started to search regularly on Yahoo Auctions Japan, and developed a routine of searching twice per day, once usually before work, and again after my 12/13 hour shift was over before I went to sleep. I had stumbled upon a very rare …