Sunday, 15 March 2009

Woooohoooooo!

The S13 is back on the road again! A friend replaced the old hose with a funky fresh new water-turbo-feed-coolant-hose-coolant-turbo-hose because I couldn't really reach there with my sausage-fingers. Been cruising for 2 days now and it's still going. No leaks, no worrying sounds, no nothing. Hell, even got pulled over by the bacons tonight while cruising with the Wangan Team, nothing serious though.

Some pictars! Btw, I'm hoping to get my coilovers somewhere this week, get it slammed y0!

Tuesday, 3 March 2009

A lot of things happened

Woah, it's been nearly 2 weeks and a lot of things happened.
I've been to London with 2 mates, had a blast. Saw a lot of things, visited a lot of musuems and ate even more junk food. We've been to Burger King 7 times in 6 days... good thing that we walked somewhere around 8 miles a day.

Picadilly Circus and Big Ben:



Last sunday I went driftkarting with the SXOC crew. I loved it, good fun. I hope to do this again real soon in the near future.

Also I finally finished my car's interior. Only thing left was putting the radiator back in. That was allright, didn't have too many problems (thanks to John and Kay for helping me). So after that and washing it, I went out for a cruise with Kay, took some photo's, cruised a bit more and went home. When we got home I parked my car in the garage, Kay came in as well and we were just saying to each other how smooth the RB sounds when all of a sudden I heard a sizzling and dripping sound... Popped the hood and coolant was visible behind the head where the sound was coming from. I freaked out, started talking about the selling the car right away because I really felt shit; I finally had it back on the road running again when that happened. Went to my room, googled a bit to see if I could find someone with a similar problem and I did. A guy on the Australian Skyline forum (thank jebus voor intarnetz) had the same problem. In his case it was the water feed to the turbo. Had a chat with a few friends of mine and they also said it could very well be the water feed. Took it off today with a mate of mine. It's a proper shit-job since it's located in between the engine and the firewall. Luckily I didn't have to jack up the gearbox even a bit to reach it.
The cracked hose that caused all this trouble:



I'm hoping to replace it this week, it felt good to drive my car again since 3 months.

Three more pictures of my car's "new" and funky fresh interior:

Wednesday, 18 February 2009

Roll cage fitted

Got my roll cage fitted tonight.
Things left to do;
- mount my bucket seat back
- slightly cut the coolant hoses
- fit the radiator back in
and when this is all done; cruise all night long.

Saturday, 14 February 2009

It's been pee-snowing

Finished painting my car today, finally!
Hope to get my roll cage painted and fitted tomorrow.

Sneak peek:



Next time I'll be uploading pictures is when I'm done with the interior, search for a nice spot to take some shots there.

Thursday, 5 February 2009

Mmmmm

Been working on my car with a mate tonight. Got quite some bits done.



And afterwards... PIZZAAAAAAAAAAA!

Wednesday, 4 February 2009

My garage

This is the place where I work on my car, it shows on the bonnet how long it's been in the garage for, lal.



Took a photo quick snap of the sweet rb while I was busy anyway:

Tuesday, 3 February 2009

Ice ice baby

Got a new pair of coolant hoses, I had to buy these because my stock ones burst a while ago. Temp. went up to 106 degrees Celsius while cruising down the freeway. That was a scary moment, all went well luckily.

New ones, Autobahn88 shite, but as long as they do the job...