funkymonkey

I've heard of bosozoku, yankee and highway racer style applied to them, maybe zokusha is slang for bosozoku or something. They're just a group of enthusiasts who style 1970's and 1980's cars kinda in the theme of the then race cars, and then some. They're pretty much the Torana and Gemini drivers of Japan. Anyways, they've been around a lot longer than the drifters... and the reason they stretch tyres is: 1. its a lot cheaper to stretch a narrow tyre onto a wider rim, than buying a wider tyre. 2. its part of the "look"... so even though they may own a $50,000 KPGC10, they'll still stretch the tyre because its part of the tradition now. 3. They don't give a rats ass about performance. Its the stigma they care about. Now fast forward to Australian "drift look" cars. I use this term because half the muppets running around these days with BN Sports kits and vertex kits and "omg dishhhh" wheels with stretched tyres, would get their panties all up in a bunch when you ask them to drift their car for real. I mean... who'd want to gutter bash their $3000 Professor SP1's right? And no fishies down a wide road or getting your arse end out around a curb in your neighbourhood doesn't cut the mustard either. So onto the real reason for stretching your tyres if you are a drifter: 1. 99% of real drifters aren't sponsored, are poor and can barely afford to keep their cars on the road. Wide tyres are out of the question. Find tyres that your local tyre shop or service centre is throwing away (out the back, ask for em) and make them fit the wheel. 2. You car is stupid low to the ground, your guards are flared and your wheels are just the right offset that they sit flush with your guards, or just slightly out. If you were to run the right sized tyre for your wheels then you'd scrape the f**k out of them with your guard when you corner or when there's weight in your car. So you stretch the tyre, and the angle of the sidewall corresponds or tucks nicely with the flaring of the guard. If you find a so called drifter that's running wide wheels, with stretched tyres and you can fit more than one finger between the top of his tyre and his guard, then go over to him and punch him in the c**t and tell him to either fit better tyres or lower his car. Seriously... I'm sick and tired of looking at 4WD height drift style cars and posers running around with "omg sickkk dishh" wheels and $4000 paintjobs on their vertex/uras copy kits claiming to be drift superstars.

i'm sorry... that looks ghetto. it doesn't even fill the hole properly. you should get an eyelid and cover that nasty gap... then it'll OK i guess. still doesn't curve the same as the indicator etc. we don't have to worry bout DOT approvals on headlights here so we don't have to do ridiculous headlight swaps for compliance... thank god.

think Newkleer on the forums was selling the ports... might even make you a cable if you pay him enough.

if you look at the trans tunnel, it looks like a RWD/AWD

loved the fact you start out with a shitty silvia about time you got that as an option instead of a VW golf or a civic.

are those 15's? you've got a huge sidewall, so it'll have more give in it. lot harder to do that on lower profile tyres. the way tyres are designed these days with dual locking bands etc, its a lot harder to pop em off. hell i've run my tyre at 12PSI in a lap around a track and it didn't pop off. did get told off for not checking tyre pressures before goin out when I came into pits and complained about car not handling properly

i really didn't feel much difference between the R33 and R32 GTR seats. R33 GTR seat might suit someone with a larger frame (ie. fatass) than an R32 though... but other than that... they're really too similar to judge on comfort. R33 seats look a little newer and more modern but meh... i wouldn't bother with an R33 GTR seat over an R32, given that R32 GTR seats are about half the price.

ooookaaaay

Driftline's in campbellfield (3061)... got two mech's who service cars fulltime now n specialise in skylines n silvia's. 0425855540 or driftline.com.au

its not on TV... you gotta download the episodes.... altho it might be on cable on one of the BBC channels.

goddamn... some of the prices being asked for such a simple cable...

probably not... you can buy em locally for less and save on not having to ship it internationally. although, the schematics are available publicly for the interface board, and you can buy the plug from one of the forum members (search for "consult" in the for sale section). Some soldering skills required.

nice... the use of the same font formatting for image captions and subtitles was a lil hard to follow tho.

i net you're right.

playing it now... f**kin rocks... altho haven't got the GTR yet

well the 250,000 pound road legal F1 car broke down twice during filming.

Haci's van must've rolled past.one of my mates was checking out the pics of autosalon, n checked out the SAU stand pics n messaged me asking me if the theme was "hard rubbish collection day". I lol'd... Sydney's "sex style" is gay with aids... wish Autosmellon wouldn't bring that shit here and make the young'un's think it was cool.

currently Playing NFS Pro Street! :excl: :excl:

this is sorta what the pressure chart in a turbo car would look like with a BOV/recirc valve: this is kinda what it looks like without:

i'm guessing another 20 pixels more shouldn't hurt... any more than 570 and you introduce horizontal scrollbars on 800x600 displays.

blocking your factory bypass valve to get your hektic flutterz will damage your turbo in the long run. no harm in running a metal pipe from the AFM to the turbo though (other than marginally increasing the heat soak from the engine of the air going in). dose pipe is the metal pipe between the turbo and the AFM... combined with a blocked bypass valve the air is forced back through the turbo when the throttle is shut, which chops it up... the metal pipe then amplifies the chopping noise and you have your "dose". having a dose pipe won't win you any respect from anyone who isn't fully sik hektic though... in fact they might laugh at you.

well I calculated 550 using an 800x600 display, which allowed for the sidebars n errthang to fit nicely. I know 1024 is probably a more realistic width in the household, but we still have to cater for the lowest common denominator. and if you're using anything lower than 800x600 you need to move out of the cave. 550's actually more than what most forums allows as width for signatures... I mean... we are talkin about signatures here... which are supposed to be short n catchy.

is that a garage yanack kit on the yellow 32? thought it was bad in yanack green, its even worse in yellow. and that chick... omg... she's so not a bodysuit person.

rice... glorious bountiful rice.