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My Stagea is featured in Japanese performance magazine this month.

The guy that wrote the article did seem to quite like the car - although he did seem to lose the plot a bit during a full lauch :P (I did tell him to put on the harness earlier :O )

Maybe he still was a bit mixed later up cos he seems to have got a fair bit of the spec wrong as well as some other details . Still never mind a features a feature.

Anyway I am now able to post some of the photoshoot pictures as I am allowed to use them once the magazine is out.

The static shots were taken at abbey who were kind enough to lend us the back car park (thanks tony )

Ive got a complete CD of pics but will only bore you guys with these

static05.jpg

atabbey1-1.jpg

sideskirt.jpg

The obligatory engine pic

engine.jpg

setas.jpg

dash.jpg

rearinterior.jpg

Th drive home

drivingfront.jpg

drivingrearveiw.jpg

the rolling shots are awesome!

but, i dont know anything about photography - but it seems like the static shots in the carpark, the lighting is a bit out of whack. the light is hitting in all the place you don't want, and making the car look quite dirty and scratched up - which obviously isn't the case based on the rolling shots.

Looks really nice mate!

Is it actually a Tomei engine?

No but has a fair few tomei parts

Block is early N1 and bored out to max

Bearings acl bolts arp

but the following are Tomei

pistons, rods cams lifters adj pulleys c/belt oil pump h/gasket, probably missed a few bits.

turbos 2860-5s

hks v pro gold ecu

runs just over 500bhp at the hubs (whatever that is in KW)

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