Finaly got a s13

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  1. adam-dorward

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    Never thort about nankangs thort they were manily used for stance cars as wernt great performance but if can find a pair cheap may be worth a go

    And yea its been far too long looking forward to the next one now
     
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    Chears bud
     
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    Finally car is geting on the road this week so pulled the wheels of ready for new tyres

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    And did some light repair work as got anuther skid night next week and as im still leaning probly only do it again

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    Got 5 mins spare at work so swaped my tyres round
    Got home and pulled the spaces of as gont for wider tyres

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    Nice build man saw you down matchams last year. You up there next Wednesday?
     
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    Chears bud next one is next week you doing skids?
     
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    Not sure yet bud I'm 750 miles into running my s14 in and need to do and oil change before I go out really. Haven't had it on a track yet :(. I will be up the for definate though my mates are drifting a black s13 and a white skyline my car will be parked there too so come over and say hello if your there :)
     
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    Yea will do bud yea no you mate with the black 13 had some coil packs of me :) hes geting good yea let it run in properly then get up there its not the best bud good fun cheap and legal no worries
     
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    Ahh I see that makes sense haha. And yeah man shouldn't be too much longer. Just seems to be taking forever haha. Don't want to rush into it though. But we did just book santa pod for November the 12th so has to be all good by then :)
     
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    Yea just mean lots of drives and will bw sweet
     
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    After finding my steering to hold on a lil in mid maji :) thort id treat the girl the full alignment and could see strait away why it did camber was 9* caster 9*5 got the camber down to 5*3 and cast to 7*2 and toe spot on and rears will get done once stait puting arms on but alredy can feel such a difference with the set up and the tyres cant wait to try it all out this Wednesday
     
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    So had another matchams on Wednesday and went great car handled so much better and was geting close to linking the whole track and then came in a little to hot and to close and cliped the front nout major

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    But carryed on and got my first cliping point

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    Looking forward to the next one
     
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    Got back on track last sat had a slight whoopsie manji went wrong and csme of track and hit a pot hole

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    Lucky mate had a spare set in his scrap pile so braced them up

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    And sorted that out and found some rear arms with polly bushs in that he didnt want so win win

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    And while was in the unit got the arch roller out

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    Slight different roll but good enough to get the rears on

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    and picked up a second hand thick core rad for good money so threw that on no pic tho :/

    Then stared to clean his engine bay up on his c32 for the rb20det to go back in once painted

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    Bit of an update finally replaced the turbo and picked up a different fro the bumper for free win win

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    And we'll gave it a lick of paint

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    Also grabbed a bigger rad to help with cooling
     
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    Hi mate I picked some coils up off you before and seen you down Matchams a few times

    Cars looking good I like the new colour, you going on the 21st ?

    P.s. How do you find the nankangs ? Been interested in them for a while but never knew anyone running them
     
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    Chears bud yea mite be down yea love them well rated in my books
     
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    Little update my front calipers started to bind quite badly to the point had glowing calipers after matchams so did a rebuild also had some play in my top mounts and a mate had some spare so threw them on
     
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    Few pics from the other night
     

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