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Sparkys

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Genuine. I don't buy fake stuff, everything on the car is genuine if the brand is listed. Genuine Origin kit, genuine Volks, genuine Brembo's, genuine Blitz cooler, HKS filter, clear indicators from Japan etc.

The only non-brand parts I have on the car are the rear strut brace and the wheel nuts. The wheel nuts are from Autobarn, I got some japanese nuts from JJR but they weren't slim enough to fit in the Volk's holes so got some from Autobarn as a temporary stop gap till I can get some proper Rays ones. Even the extended wheel studs are genuine Nismo!

BTW, if you're looking at the photo's of the rims and thinking there's something that doesn't look genuine about them, you have perceptive eyes. They look slightly different coz the paint had a few scratches when they arrived so I got the centres dipped and powder coated in as close a colour as I could get to the original silver, but I couldn't find anyone to machine away the centre paint like the genuine Volks. I also got some new wheel stickers made up (the bits that say Volk Racing on the spokes), but the rest of the stickers and markings inside are all intact.

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