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Spend more time practicing your heel toe downshift technique instead :P

Lol.

It actually got to the point where my heel and toe downshift / braking technique has gotten to a level which I'd consider quite good (I've been practicing basically every day for months). Still needs a lot of fine-tuning to be perfected.

But my S15 is off the road atm so I've needed to modify my technique as I'm driving my mum's E90 Corolla and the pedal/driving position is different. Will take a while to readjust once I hop back in the S15.

Reason my car is off the road is because my Tomei N2 Oil Pan was defective (one of the welds was dodgy causing oil to leak), so recently sent it back to Tomei HQ in Japan for testing (and once they confirm the defect I get a replacement pan). Option could of been to get it welded here but I decided I'm going to make a farkin point about it.

what about the wheels it was running before roadworthy? cause you borrowed a set for roadie, was on TE's before that?

Still got my Te37's

Just trying a more aggressive rim size & offset atm

Tony, you bought 18" yeah? Tried to look at what size you bought as you only mentioned 9.5" width.

9.5inch + 22 Drift tek.

inb4fakes and it kills babies

Toby, Excel spreadsheet is done, what email should I send it to?

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Email it to my work address brah

Forgies cost similar to new genuine pistons & rods.

yeah pistons and rods maybe, but not crank (which I thought he was also referring to)

GTiR crank: ~$600 used

Forged: $1900+

fark dat shit.

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