VEGASDRIFT Practice 5/4/2014

                                       OK short and sweet. its 11:30 pm im leaving on my trip across america in 5 hours im super tired but i wanted to get these pictures posted, since by the time i get back in 2 weeks they will be old news. I shot a ton of pics there is about 250 total on my Flickr which i will link you too at the end of this post. some of the pictures are cool, some aren't apparently i got some debris in my camera that i didn't notice until i had it on a large computer screen, so deal with it. the pics are free you can do what ever you want with them. i only ask that you shoot my a shout out, link my blog, or something to give me some views. Im tired here are the pics if you didn't get in im sorry most likely it was out of focus, i did try to shoot everyone's car.

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ONE CAR GARAGE

                                     i don't get on this as much as i used to, ever since i got instagram i pretty much post pictures on there and neglect the blog. but today i figured since i was bored at home i would take a few snaps of my one car in my one car garage. its pretty tight quarters in there working on car is definitely a challenge. my water pump gasket started leaking real bad so im changing the water pump.

 

Dyno Chart

                 The other night i got a chance to dyno my Rb25 swapped s13. It was a charity at Force Fed racing in Las Vegas, one of there employees lost his girlfriend to cancer. so for 20 bucks you could do one run on their dyno and all donations went to funding a funeral and other bills. no torque numbers just Horsepower.i managed to pull 255 hp, not bad just a bit shy of what i was hoping for. my chart is a little shaky at the top end, one of the guys there said i need a colder spark plug. so i will be switching to a colder plug and hopefully that will help steady it out on he top end.

the ambient temp was 112.7f, it was a 4th gear pull from 35mph to 112mph
cool thing about RB motors or any non 4 cylinder motor is look at how quickly i get power.

i had a great time and im glad that Bobby talked me into going. it was the first time i have ever had any of my cars dynoed and i actually got to drive it while it was on the dyno which was very cool.

This guy, and I

                      Well just another typical Wednesday afternoon for us. washing our cars to prep for west side Wednesday, a seemingly pointless act because we are always late and never get prime parking, and no one looks at our cars anyway. so i decided to snap some shots while at the car wash.

RB25sx updates

                           Here are some long awaited updates on my car, i know i took a few month hiatus from blogging but im now back with a vengeance. Just because there were no updates doesn't mean i wasn't working on my car, i was actually quite busy. since ever had crashed his s13 and decided to go 14 i was able to get his stuff that he couldn't use on the 14 build. Thanks a MILLION bud. So here is what i have done.
Evers old subframe with max solid bushing and tanabe sway bar
Evers rear over fenders
Evers front PSM knuckles
I also got ambitious and decided to extend my lower control arms. the last event i was having real bad outer shoulder wear so i thought that maybe if i extended my lower control arms i would get more camber so at full lock i would have a better contact patch.But when i extended my lower arms i opened a whole new can of worms, since instantly my greater camber was causing serious rubbing issues on my fender wiring harnesses so i had to take the whole dash out and reroute the fuse boxes into the car. This is actually easy and can be done with out cutting any part of the harness, you can do it with radiator and engine still in the car. start on the passenger side by where the ecu is mounted, and remove the three white plugs that are connected to the harness that comes from the passenger wheel well.you will need to unbolt you ecu and move it to access these plugs, then go outside by the passenger wheel and pull the harness out from inside the car. Then start disconnecting the main fuse box wires, then start pulling that box out and follow the wires removing the headlights, turn signals, light motors, and horn wires if you have them. then unbolt the radiator brackets and pull the radiator back a little and pull the wiring from off of the upper core support. then you get to the drivers side fuse box, you shouldn't have much of anything actually plugged in there. then stop there and go to inside the drivers side of the car and get a 10 mm and unbolt the fuse panel and resistors that are bolted in. then disconnect all the wires attached to you steering column then pull those all out so they just sit on the drivers floor. mind you the dash must be out. then this is the hardest parts cause you need to move around a lot of thick harnesses and you should see the light in the hole in the fender where the harness comes through then have some one go on the outside by the drivers wheel well and pull lightly while you feed it from the inside and it will all fit right through the hole in your fender with out any modifications just be aware that there is some sound deadening that you need to break away to enlarge the hole and the harness will come right out with no cutting. then the rest is obvious just reconnect and you have to extend you headlights, turn signals and brake master cylinder wires since obviously all the plugs are now in the car. you will also need to extend you lower harness and some other wires and from the harness. but just take it slow and do one group of wires at a time. sorry if thats all a little jumbled or miss punctuated.
the other thing i did not realize was i would have to get longer tie rods since i extended the lower arms 35mm so i had to order the max inner tie rods since they are 20mm longer then stock s14 ones.

 Tie rod looks a little bent but its only cause of the wide angle lens.

 You can see the lack of fuse boxes.

 and one more of the garage and evers build.

EG LOVE

                     Well while i was in California getting wheels and tires and some other stuff for the 240sx, I also picked up a few things for the civic. I used to think my civic was HOT shit, but once i got my RB25 swapped 240 going i quickly realized how slow my civic was. i joke about it now saying "im so embarrassed that i used to think my civic was fast" or " i dont even know why i fixed up civics they are sooo slooow". but there is one thing my 240sx will never be able to do, and that is out handle my civic. so just to solidify the civic greatness in handling, while i was in California i stopped in at JHP and picked up some 15x8 +35 Enkei PF01 wheels, and got some Federal RSR tires to wrap around them. Now i have always been an AZENIS guy and thought that the federal RSR tires would not even come close. but after to talking to some people i decided to try them out plus the price was good too, so i figured how could i go wrong. well my first impression of the tires was WOW. I can not believe how much better they handle then the AZENIS, its a day and night difference im now the biggest fan of the Federal RSR tires. also while i was down there i picked up an APEXI NOIR exhaust to help my fly under the radar since the civic is like a daily for me. and then i finally decided to man up and cut my bumper, this is a great modification that people are doing lately to really help reduce the air drag during high speed track racing. i cant wait to get out to Buttonwillow and see how much better it is. it is the same principal as cutting speed holes in your bumper except it hasn't been ruined by lower class people trying to make there cars look cool. 

Here's a bunch of mediocre pictures