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Oh yes and i am after some sort of sponsor for next years ODC (open drift championships) if anybody wants to help lol

The RB26 is a lovely thing. I worked for Abbey Motorsport for six years so saw my fair share, the heat is a major problem for the S13 as you say, more due to the lack of vents in the front

A much nice (though tougher to find) choice for the drift gang is the VH45DE, which is a 4.5 liter V8 from the Nissan Cima, it "does" fit in the S13, but its quite a rare engine, but being an N/A V8 it has loads of snort and no lag

For what its worth if you need any Nissan advise (I have fault codes and all manner of Nissan stuff) then give me a PM.

Good luck with the sideways action!

cheers bud i am sure i'll be in touch its a nissan after all lol

Well the cars been handling alittle crappy not such a good turn in so got a mate of main to check the tracking it was well over 4 degrees out BOTH sides no wounder both front tyres were shafted thats all sorted now.

Also the pikey spec steering rod strengthen bits taken off as they didnt fill me with confidence as i thought they may come off lol good idea though.

Also put my old rear hatch on sad i know but the boots prob worth about £150 in stickers lol

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Car drives verywell and is alot quicker than i thought it would be needs a avcr but i might have that sorted by monday.

Also my kouki lights should also be on monday and i need to find were the zorsts blowing

Looking forward to mallory now on the 16th of dec.

Also thinking of removing the side skirts what do you recon?

Slightly off topic dan0h but were toy at Abbey when they found a certain tool in an engine?

Looking good

The side skirts do look a bit like they have been plonked on. But don't look terrible imo

MrPhil : When did this occur? As I left Abbey in Feb 2008, on pretty poor terms, due to a number of issues with management. I was involved purely in engine management systems, heavy electronics (multi-stage NOS control etc), and mapping.

I had joined Abbey (having previously learned everything at Abbott Racing, specialist SAAB tuners in Essex) during the glory-days, so to speak. That was a time when they had a number of very high profile GTR customers (Rocket Ronnie, 3x TOTB winner + many people that "Wanted a car the same as ronnies!") with a lot of money to spend, the place was booming at the time and growing very quickly indeed, it was the first tuning house in the UK to have a hub-mounted Dyno, and as a tuner - I wanted to use the best kit, I also had an R32 of my own at that time, loved it to bits and wanted to be involved with them on a daily basis. However, this boom growth didn't last. Most of the problems for Abbey centre around people in the GTR scene not understanding the basic premise that the light that burns twice as bright, lasts half as long - the RB is not (despite what people think) a magic engine. If you want one of those you need a Toyota 2JZ-GTE! However, many decisions were made for customer cars (by management) that I did not agree with, and hence why I was unhappy there in my latter days, I became part of those (IMHO) poor decisions simply because I worked there - and I didn't want to be associated with some of the things that were going on.

However, in Abbey's defense, in around early 2007 they became the victim of a very unpleasant slur campain for a number of years, spearheaded by a very disgruntled and unpleasant (and known for this kind of behavior) customer, from which I don't believe they have ever really recovered. In order for my good name to not be tied with that brush, I chose to disappear while the ship was still afloat. A few events tipped the balance for me, but I had been looking to leave for maybe 5-8 months, so the straw that broke the camels back was actually quite welcome. Sadly that customer had become a friend of mine over the period we tuned his cars, but upon his fury with management, I became a target, and as a result - slurred by him also. The very definition of fair-weather friendship.

In order to act as testiment to my own quality and workmanship, immediately after I left Abbey I went to another tuner that invested in a brand new Dynapack ($72,000 at that time + test cell) on the basis of my experience and skills, so I like to think that I left Abbey still with my reputation intact.

The whole Abbey experience poisoned the GTR for me, its strange to see how people become about those cars (helped also by a very firey forum), its like a megalomania that people suffer with them. Its a nasty scene, and I was glad to be free of it. Moving to the Lotus market was a nice break!

Feel free to PM me if you'd like to enquire more, I prefer not to loose my professionalism by discussing too much in an open forum.

Koukis on looks much better

Defo. All UKDM cars should have had them in the first place!

Sileighty dude. You know you want to.

Yeah you reading my to do list LOL

have a 2way nismo pro diff but for some reason the standard s13 backplate wont fit so might sell swap and have been offered some rota d1 rims might take him up as the 16s look the nuts but are just to small

I saw a car very similar on the M53 on Sunday. I thought it wasn't this one because of the lights. but now the lights are the same as the one I saw

That'll more likely be a Skyline, I've seen a couple since I've been up here, theres a Gun gray (surprise surprise!) R32 knocking around fairly local.

S13's with Kouki's are rare as

Kouki 180's are "rare as" too

It wasn't a skyline... although it was in the distance... hmm
Now I'm doubting myself

How have you got your rear fog light wired up Tony?

I used a diode and used the inner brake lights on the Koukis so I didnt have to fit one of those ugly under bumper things!

No of the above lol

when the car goes for a mot i'll chuck the standards back in



I only put the kouki's on, On monday bud havnt been on the 53 in it for awhile