With the huge arches left by the Carbon cladded Lexus, one of the challenges is to find deep enough alloys to bolt to the existing hubs. Using hubcentric spacers is like putting up a white flag and giving in. The Lexus IS 200 comes with a standard wheel width of 7J and an offset of 45mm. To bring the wheels out flush I need to decrease the offset in proportion to the width (J) of the wheel. With my trusty [...]

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JapShow is on the 4th July 2010, and is creeping up fast. The GTR is not ready as it misfires above 1.5 bar of boost and when it gets hot it misfires at just over a bar. After doing a lot of research I came up with a few different options: Splitfire – Super Direct Ignition System Splitfire Super Direct Ignition System are what I am currently running and just after a years use and less than a few thousand [...]

For my birthday I was given drifting lessons at Santa Pod and so was my housemate. So we travelled up in my GTR and practiced all day in a Skyline GTS. During the tutors lunchbreak I sneakily put my Skyline into RWD mode and had a play. This is not how you are meant to drift just me messing around. When it got to the point where I couldn’t see anything as I was surrounded in smoke I decided to [...]

[singlepic id=442 w=320 h=240 float=center] Ray from RMS JapWorks came around today and welded two brackets for the front arches. His friend Rich came round and looked at the suspension setup I did yesterday and showed me how to get the coilovers even lower. It seemed that I had inadvertedly raised the cars suspension when I was trying to lower it. After some refinements all round not only has the car been well and truly lowered the knocking noise from [...]