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 …

A Sense of Direction

September 2015 Now after spending countless hours researching what I want to do to the outside of the car, and playing around with S-tuner (for those who dont know, google it, its a nice tool for messing with appearance in 3d of almost any import car with a large selection of parts), I finally had …

Internal Affairs

While thinking about what I wanted to do to the exterior of the car, I already knew what had to be done to the interior. I started doing a little research on the different types and manufacturers of seats available for my car. I figured, well since I already got these expensive wheels and lug …

Yahoo Auctions Japan Fiend is Born

Fast forward 2014, I was still interested in looking at cars, finally had a decent job, and nothing really to spend my money on, so I decided to touch up the car here and there. I figured that I'd start with changing out the old flaking work wheels that came on the car, and found …

Baby Steps

Being a poor student I wasn't able to do much to the car. My first "modification" was getting this funky Japanese Sony mini disc/CD player, its a shame I cant access any North American radio stations but the looks made up for that. I didn't really have any modification goals for the car, because I …

The Beginning of an Era

Hey guys, my name is Mike, I'm 27 and this is my ridgeback sx180 foreign cornering machine build. I've always been a fan of cars, and as a teenager, I decided that it would be Japanese cars that would steal all the attention. I always invested a lot of time into reading and learning about …