Thursday, June 25, 2009

Homebrew track car built in a garage in Leeds over a period of three years. All the panels are custom, ATL fuel cell and Volk Racing wheels. The lines echo those of the JGTC Silvia. Loves it!

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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Citroen, make this thing.

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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

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Monster Sport are one of my favourite tuners fame for their Gymkhana and rallying exploits. With legendary Pikes Peak champion Monster Tajima at the helm. This looked pretty cool but seriously what we’re Suzukisport thining smoking when they designed those rims?

Naturally aspirated and with 145hp, Monster have taken the NA tuning concept a step further with the Swift. Some trick work on the head, a remapped ECU and larger intakes fed through a Titanium Exhaust system.

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Friday, June 19, 2009

 Meeke just nailed Freddy Loix by 2.4 seconds in the dark on Rally Ypres, Peugeot UK are nailing it in the IRC.

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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Came across this on the Swift Owners forum Dave’s gone and bought a rather boss looking Suzuki Alto. Clean inside and out, I love old J-tin.

I’ve never seen one of these before but its got the potential to be a pretty clean daily.

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Really clean engine bay!

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Pretty cool little car check out how clean the bodywork is!

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Strange stance, but dropped on some cut springs with some retro shoes and it’ll look boss.

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Interesting interior! shows how spoilt  we are with modern cars, no airbags here.

I’ll look forward to seeing how this one turns out.

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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

I’m pretty slack with updates lately so here’s the second half of my Chatsworth Rally show report. With a rare break in the sunshine by now i’d ruined not only my DC’s but now a pair of Converse I squelched down to the paddock.

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Spied this Safari spec Peugeot 205 in the paddock, sadly didn’t get to see it do a stage session.

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Suzuki binned support for the Swift Sport cup, but the BRC have picked up to support the championship. I still love these cars, Monster Sport Europe still prep them from their Milton Keynes base.

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Loved this JR motorsport Evo X currently peddling in the British Rally Championship. This was my first chance to check out the X

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Some formula 1000 spec Nissan Micra’s looking pretty cool in rally trim, all with the standard 1.0 litre engines.

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Cool little Yaris on Compomotive wheel again another 1.0 litre monster!

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If you aren’t familiar with the Quattro you should be, with upwards of 500hp and more often than not well above that. These machines are evocative of the Group B era, the sound of this between the tree’s at Chatsworth in the rain is undescribable.

And for all you Hella flush enthusiasts checkout the offset on those wheels haha.

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MDM? could Malaysian cars be the next big thing? Guy Wilks announced at the show a deal to run the remaining rounds of the IRC, with this Proton Super 2000.

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Mikko was on it in his first appearance at the show in a privateer spec Ford Focus WRC.

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Its amazing to see how Peugeot turned something so small into a WRC car, they ran a special model specifically with lengthened bumpers to enable them to enter the car.

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Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Chatsworth has become a sort of Glastonbury for Rally fans, drivers and cars. But as the English weather took exception the majority of the weekend was spent sat in the Swift, sat inside a tent or sat underneath a tree. And I managed to ruin my favourite pair of DC’s.

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Before the giant killing Impreza the heavier Legacy cemented Subaru’s entry into the WRC this one driven by Ari Vatanen.

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Kris Meeke and Paul Nagle cleaned up in the 207 fresh from a recent IRC win, this car sounded amazing screaming through the tree’s at Chatsworth. Still relatively production based the car uses the 2 litre engine from the 206.

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In a rare break from the rain I spied this Lancia Stratos in replica Rothmans livery.

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Everyone’s favourite faux Yorkshireman Steve Perez brought out no less than 4 cars. Who wouldn’t love a collection like that? VK3 is his newest addition replacing an older spec Ford Focus WRC.

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I loved this rally 240z i’m not sure on its history other than that it’d had a bare shell rebuild recently.

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Another one of Steve Perez’s fleet.

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I’ve always loved how mad the old Mitsubishi Lancer Wrc’s look. Ralliart dumped the evo and opted for the Lancer Cedia, chucked  a few bits at it and this it what they ended up with. Sadly it bombed in the WRC but MML have further developed the car for national use.

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This looked to be a replica of Carlos Sainz’s Toyota Celica, two registrations is the give away.

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Its always emotional to see Richard Burns old Subaru Impreza WRC, this is the car he won the world championship with on the Network Q. And now resides in the Richard Burns collection.

Check back for part two soon.

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Monday, June 8, 2009

So here’s my report from the Chatsworth Rally show, rain was definitely a feature of the 2009 edition after a week of 24 degree days,

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So here’s day one, as you can see i’ve just arrived at the campsite and already its raining. You can see a buyeye STI and what looks like an rb5.

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So the second day and the first day of the show, here you can see some Lancia delta’s. And i’ve clearly not got my seatbelt on.

Just kidding haha, full report to come.

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Monday, June 1, 2009

Figured i’d get in with this whilst its still fresh, within a week it’ll be re-posted everywhere and you’ll be sick to death of it. I’m a bit of a DC Shoes fanboy, one of my few vices I like nice shoes. I’m pretty impressed with the video, Ken’s really raising the profile over in the States.

Rallying nearly died a death a few years back, go check it out

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http://gymkhanatwo.dcshoes.com/#/the-infomercial/

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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

 This is one of those projects that makes you sit up and take notice, sometimes with a project car things don’t go your way. It’s how you overcome these which really makes a project for me, when some-one’s so driven by passion they’ll keep going to get things right.

Babalouie clearly has a love for the Hako, especially in importing it to Australia seemingly one of the most unfriendly places in the world for car modification.

Go read this project thread: http://forum.jdmstyletuning.com/showthread.php?t=7768

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Photo’s are by my favourite Australian photographer Mark Pakula www.markpakula.com/blog

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