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Performance cylinder heads for my 1275 Mini engine
on Aug 18, 2009 in Diary Cylinder Head Mini Slark Racing Vmax Scart Continuing with my Mini on-going project, and the constant want for more power, I have decided to finally bite the bullet and fork out for a new performance cylinder head – perhaps the single most efficient way of increasing power from the A-se...



jQuery parent selector methods
on Aug 12, 2009 in Diary Over the past couple of weeks I’ve stumbled over the same issue with jQuery a number of times. When you’re in an each loop within jQuery or some other reason when you’re using $(this), I continually have problems with finding and se...



Random Thursday Jap car meet-up
on Jul 31, 2009 in Diary Car Meeting Jap Cars Meet-up Nissan 200sx Photoblog Photography I organized a small meeting of my close mates & their cars last night. Was a good little turn out. I really wanted to get some industrial-style shots of all the cars from the evening and I don’t think I did too badly at it. Our first “...



Latest photos of the s14a and the MX5!
on Jul 29, 2009 in Diary Coilovers Horsham Developments HSD Mazda MX5 Nissan 200sx Got my car back from Horsham Developments on Friday and had a nice weekend relaxing and cruising around now that my car handles much better and is lower thanks to the new coilovers by Driftworks / HSD. The HSD’s are a massive improvement in eve...



Second hand parts vs Brand new. The coilover of choice…
on Jul 16, 2009 in Diary Its always a difficult choice for me – second hand parts vs new parts. And I’m sure the choice is going to always be difficult for anyone that’s into modifying cars. On my s14a, one of my coilovers is knackered in the sense that it...



Rotorstock 6, Santa Pod, EDC Drifting photos
on Jul 15, 2009 in Diary Drifting EDC Nissan 200sx Santa Pod Rotorstock 6 was last Saturday at Santa Pod and although I own my gorgeous SR20DET powered 200sx which is, of course, not rotary-powered, I tagged along anyway. Mainly to see the EDC round 5. EDC being the European Drift Championship. It was a fantas...