Thursday, July 22, 2010

XD-XG Utes

Looking for a ute as a tow vehicle.

Why not make it the Race Vehicle!

I'm loving this XG ute.

Earlier cars are too expensive. I love XA,B,C utes best, but they are all rusted away or super expensive restos these days.

XD~G models seem to be good and the engine swap options are many as they were sold from 1980~1996 with V8s and inline 6s with and without turbo..

The XF Dick Johnson Grand Prix Turbo Model (26  made) Flares would make a great addition and some Deep Dish 17" or 18"

Taking inspiration from early Aussie stuff.

Love the beast. Love the Falcon.

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Mazda Racing

Dennis Barretto sent me some more images. The Rolex GT series runs mostly RX8s and Porsche which are far from stock and are formidible machines.


Mostly 3 rotor engines in the RX8s producing....


Hommage to Flames...!!!!


A closer look.



Side Barbeque??? Overtake this and get burned!

This one too?


69... nice number.




Dennis' Shots of the whole day includes other stuff.
http://s144.photobucket.com/albums/r193/sinned2545/Rolex%20Cup%202010/?start=all


Check out more on the EXCELLENT Mazda Racing Site.
http://www.mzracing.jp/en/americanracing/201018.html

My favourite. This livery does well to shorten the length of the RX8.

Nice

Russ. pics Dennis

Sunday, July 18, 2010

Design SOS

Frontal design recently is horrendous.

The poor man's chrome rolls royce grille is a plastic hell of ugly!

Even honda are getting guilty. It's almost like someone is trying to save paint.


The latest aborition is the Holden W427. The ugly beast is just making performance a joke.

It used to be that performance cars were sleek and elegant 2 door machines.
Whoever thought that this should be the face of all sports cars from the last few years needs some kind of re-adjustment.
At least this leaves the aftermarket free to easily design something better.... Maybe
Some try to improve this with a tiny carbon cover and a few carbon accent pieces but these are all the aftermarket is brave enough to produce and yes with limited pieces to work with, they all look the same.

I scan the web looking for someone brave enough to redesign the ugly out of these cars, they seem to afraid to remove the one ugly identifying feature. The GRILL.


Looks familiar.

Be brave and be individual. Avoid the corporate image and improve it.

My hat goes off to seqential. One company brave enough. Even a small change is good.

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Watanabe Nissan Jeep

I have a thing for watanabes recently. Cruising their site, I came across this Awesome J44 Jeep Drift Rod!

F:R16-90 -13
R:R16-95 -19
114.3/5 GM


Engine is an SR20.DET bored to 2.2L running a TD-06 25G turbine with 256°cams
Control is HKS F-conVPRO with suspension left over from a silvia S14 
Nismo 2 way LSD


Now we know what happens to silvia's when the bite the dust at Ebisu.

Ultra creative cool!
Steering is centrally mounted!!!!


I can see a few more of this style coming in the future.

http://www.rs-watanabe.co.jp/index2.htm

http://www13.ocn.ne.jp/~h.d.o/

Friday, July 2, 2010

Rays Logo

All you RAYS Fans... better get used to changes. Rays have changed their logo which means the ICONIC logo will be no longer available. All the copies will easily be identifyable again and they have also introduced a copy proof Authentication Logo on all wheels.

Still BOLD and STRONG.

RAYS