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Holy crap.  I’m not sure what is more unbelievable – the butt catching video or this one.  And this one is real.

I saw Dom’s post about his brake pad sale so I ordered some Endless pads for my G35.  Endless pads… Dom, that name works GREAT for those other types of pads, eh?  Maybe if that yellow splash was in red instead.

Endless pads G35

“Competition disc pads.”  What is my car competing in?

Thanks Dom!

Got my cars detailed over the weekend.  ALL of them – daily drivers and the drift cars too!  They all got clay bar’d, polished and waxed.

I took the opportunity to pull the car out onto the street… This is the first time I’ve actually gotten to see my car with the new wheels.  I usually have to look at my car from 2 feet away because it’s in the garage.  I think it was happy to finall get some sun.

Then I took it out somewhere to stretch its legs a little bit aka terrorizing the streets.  That was fun.

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This thing is looking so beat up... but I still like it.

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I think I want to put the rear spoiler back on

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Imola Red Buddies

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The JDM ducting is back!

My car went through a lot of different phases. It started as a 240 with faded paint, then it got a fresh black paint job and silvia face, then it got a wangan spoiler and a zenki front lip, then I got 5 lug 17″ wheels, got side skirts, then Japanese rear unders, then an aero bumper with a zenki lip spoiler then I went back to 180 face and painted it red. And throughout the whole process it got new stickers, got rid of old stickers, etc.

Although I look at my car these days and think that it looks really cool, it’s still not my favorite era of my car. It was my favorite back in 2003 when I got my tapered face TE37s and I had stickers going from the rear part of the door and up the rear fender.

I’m being honest when I say that I really don’t see any sileighties that look good to me.  Back in the days of 1998 I did, but I never really liked any others… besides mine.  I think the silvia face just really does not match a hatchback s13 or something.  But for some reason I still think mine looked cool and I can’t really come up with a reason why.  Is it because it’s black?  Maybe it’s that combined with the zenki lip and wangan wing?  Maybe it’s just because it’s mine and I’m being nostalgic.  I’m not sure!  All I know is that I could spend hours on end looking at my car in the driveway and I still feel the same way when I see these old pics.

Here’s some pics of what my car looked like during my favorite stage.  Maybe with my r32 wheels in the rear instead of those 5zigens.

Best sileighty 2003

Best sileighty 2003 with Nadine 180

I was going through Nadine’s photos and found these photos that she was hording.

My car misses the track…

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Oh, this was also the same event we drove home from and we both got pulled over by CHP.  And we both got referee tickets.  Thanks!  Hope you enjoyed those engine bay photos punk!

Ken Gushi and me at a video shoot @ Mojave’s airplane graveyard. I think this is where they filmed the movie Con Air.