Tbox's photo journal
 

The basics:
2009 Sport Touring w/nav
6spd
Magnetic black with frost interior



This space will be filled later with photos that are being done of the completed car.
Until that time I thought I'd post some fun teaser pics I've been collecting.

This is a team Rivals project car, owned by myself. We're some old school racers who have been doing JDM style in the Adirondacks since far before the F&F fever ever kicked in. We have cars that cover all aspects of racing, from road, autocross, drag and even rally.
I was owner of a import performance shop to remain unnamed as we closed many years ago for personal reasons, however our team brings our skills and experience to each of our vehicles.
My past cars have been featured in magazines such as modified mag, super street and sport compact car, and I've had cars features in a few sport compact DVDs as well. We're open to sponsorship on all of our vehicles but I'm specifically looking for some strong backers on this one in particular as we have large plans for it that all parties could benefit from.

Anyhow. On to the the journal.




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What do we have here?

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First mod HKS Hi-Power catback

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Titanium burnt adjustable tips

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Time to get to work and stop goofing around.

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Eww ugly restrictive stock exhaust

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Installed very easily. I love the removable exhaust hanger brackets on the Z, makes install much less difficult.

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I give this install 1 Monkey Ballz on the scale of difficulty out of 5. Fred does not look amused with my JDM kewlness.

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Hmmm what's next? Maybe these circular things with spokes. 315 wide? This can't be? :eek:
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Toyo must run a narrow 315. I should look it up and post it.

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Pesky bolt. Really Nissan? That's getting yanked.

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One side done. Eww blurry droid pic.

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I wanna say this was the rear...

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Rear fitment pre drop. Ooops spoiler.

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Loving the lip.

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Low quality side shot to get the idea. Wheels are Volk GT-C 20x9.5 and 20x10.5 18 offset on both. There's a slight poke on the front but no rubbing at stock height. Rear would be sunken a touch but the tires bring it flush. You'll see in future pics what I've decided to do to bring out a bit more stagger and even it more with the front's look.

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looks awesome man. are you going to lower it on springs or coilovers?

is that your garage?

Coilovers :)

That is Fred's garage.

Fred drives this:
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That's a built rally car :driving:

Car looks great! I really like your color choice for both the interior and exterior. Wheels look sick as well! What's next?

Thanks

This week is coilovers and rear spacers. I'll reveal the details when the photos are up :)

I'm toying with some ideas of doing a majority of the exterior in carbon fiber. most people do this on white, and I think on the black it will be subtle at a distance and then jaw dropping up close.

In for progress, like it so far hi five!

Need more pictures :D Looking good so far :tup:

Looks good!

Something else arrived :)
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^ You get those on yet?!

No :( believe it or not it snowed today. This is the longest winter evar.

But my spacers came in.

Well I dont know how you feel about snow thank god, but I can tell you I know how weather can delay a project. We had a mini hurricane down here yesterday it was horrible.

If I could find an IT job somewhere warmer I'd move in a heartbeat. I hate the north. With the economy how it is I'm scared to make a move and lose a solid job though. I'm trying to convince my management to move me to our Tempe facility, but it's not really high on their priority list.

looks great. GET SOME BETTER PICS ASAP!