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I’ve been chillin’ out this Easter long weekend, you know bumming around at home and doing some much needed relaxation. Anyway today I decided that I’ll give the Stagea a wash seeing that I haven’t really given it a nice scrub before.

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The last day of the holidays hey? better make it semi-productive I thought. So outside I wentto get rid of the rear badges on the Stagea.

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The tools I used for the job was a bit of fishing line, and a heat gun. The heat gun was used to soften the adhesive and the line cut through it to get the badge off.

Some cars have locating pins on the back of the badge, which means you could be left with a few holes in the boot lid. Thankfully the Stagea isn’t one of these cars.

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Looks nice and clean at the back now, I’m not much of a fan towards badges all over the place. Considering how the average person has no idea what my car is, I’d prefer to keep it that way, haha.

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taken from my blog

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This S14 is in fact my fiancés car. She’s owned it for about 3 years now and has slowly modified it to her style.

Last night JDMST had a EOMM (End Of Month Meet) on and our initial plans were to take the Stagea, but I wanted to do something else … I wanted to put my wheels on her car and see how they looked, and well the pictures speak for themselves I think.

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It was quite a last minute thing, I think I decided to swap the wheels over at about 3pm. For a slap on job I think they look amazing! with a bit of dialing in they’d look even better!

Don’t know whether to leave them on her car now or to find a similar wheel, they look much much better on hers then the Stagea. Funny thing is Julie doesn’t really fancy meshy style wheels, I think now she has grown fond of them.

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You know, if she let me drive her car more often, I probably would of bought a Zenki myself.

I was thinking that, but she doesn't drive it much so I'll probably stick with them for the time being.

just looked through the melbourne road trip pics, f**k it was fun!

just realised I've only had the car for 2 months, from this:

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To this, look at the height difference! :lol:

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My new numberplates are ready for pickup too :D

nice places mate. haha lolvo. should make up a piece of plastic/aluminum/carbon fibre to perfectly fill out the area behind the number plate and put your plate over it. the slim line plate looks lonely back there haha.

Hahaha, that is AWESOME, Adam!

Also, I love the fact that I was (most likely) the first person to use the term "LOLvo" and it's caught on...

Cheers dude, I had a few plates in mind before even buying my boat, but this suited the car the most haha.

nice places mate. haha lolvo. should make up a piece of plastic/aluminum/carbon fibre to perfectly fill out the area behind the number plate and put your plate over it. the slim line plate looks lonely back there haha.

That's a good idea! would cover up those bottom brackets too, hmm.

blog link here.

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After weeks of searching, I’ve finally found myself a new wheel for the Stagea that didn’t break the budget!

It looks to be a Nardi deep cone replica, and the build quality of the wheel is on par with many of my old ones, which cost 3-4 times the price I payed for this one.

Where’d I get it from? Ebay bro! I had change left over from $50 too.

haha yeah I'd like to get that sorted pretty soon aye, I've found a box local to me for dirt cheap. So the hunt begins for a twin plate clutch (preferably ORC, had it in the 5 and it was brilliant!)

Will be hoping to have it manual by September ... yeah lets set that as my goal! haha.

Apparently the front end will sit higher with the manual in it too? That could be a bit of a problem I think, gotta figure out how to get these BC's lower ... might need to modify the bottom mounting section.

The hunt begins

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Today, we were off to pick up a GT-R gearbox for the upcoming manual conversion. The next big hurdle was the clutch.

I originally wanted an ORC twin plate due to having good experiences with one in the MX-5, but whilst speaking to the owner of the GT-R box plans changed. Ben had quite a bit of parts lying around and one of these parts just happened to be a HKS twin plate clutch with quite a bit of meat left on it.

I was contemplating it well before he told what he was after for it. let’s just say that the price I payed for it, I’d be hard pressed to find a used OEM clutch.

So with the main parts out of the way, it’s time to gather all the little bits and pieces and get this show on the road!

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