2 Mar 2011

Out of Nothingness

...Appears a peculiar metal object on my desk. Srsly, it just materialised! Ok. It didn't.
- Little Rapscallion was too self-involved in his Shisha to look at the Camera; yes, I've taken to talking to toys now.

What pray tell may you be asking yourself - ok, HUMOUR me and pretend you are - is that frivolity upon my desk? Is it something essentially fundamental to getting my car back on the road?! Ofcourse not. Is it something I need?! Don't be foolish. Is it rare and lulJDMwins that I had to buy it? 

Oui ^_^

What you see there, is apparently an HRF Intake Manifold, as supplied by HRF with their total kit of wins. This one is apparently a bit more special. Well, by special it largely depends on what excites you, I don't get starstruck for example. However:





The manifold purportedly comes from THAT very car [You get a good view of it at 4:49]. Apparently a gentleman in Ireland had caught wind from his Vehicle Shop friend that he had taken delivery of the engine from said car, and he got given the manifold. Regardless, not important, and more JDMwins kkthx. On quick observation, it's a very simple cylindrical manifold using the stock, very short, runners, with a giant Nissan 67mm opening (so probably 62mm throat) throttlebody. As pictured:


Is there any conceivable reason that I need it? No. I actually got it because I felt like it, as the high-rpm setup this would suit isn't really what I am chasing. However, in the interests of testing and finding out such theories with fact, I thought I would take it upon myself to verify the effectiveness of this manifold, you know, to just throw money where it doesn't really need throwing. It also weighs nothing, so if I get bored again - a dangerous situation - I may convince myself the 2g it saves against the ACIS will be worth it.

In other news, that festering nub of debt, has finally relinquished the money that was owed to me, after a ball-separating [Again, refer to previous post] 50 weeks.

Which has allowed me to pay for Turbo kit number 5.








And something for the Cefiro.








None of it necessary.

That is all ^_^

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18 Feb 2011

Fail Sandwich

Want an update? Cannot help you there.

Ok, maybe a little bit - the turd that owes me money/driveshaft etc has finally returned the CV Joint, albeit, still owes me money. Unfortunately, the CV Joint and fitting driveshaft do not conform. Huzzah.

So, once the garage gets the old CV Joint back on, I'll begrugdingly install the old driveshaft, fill the gearbox with oil, maybe put in some fresh petrol and start the car and gigglerofflecopter a bit, then, nothing. As I have no money to do anything more.

When I do finally get a cash injection/sell my last remaining testicle [fate of the other one described a few posts ago], I will get the car down to Abbey Motorsport to burden onto them, and, get a suitable driveshaft made for the TRD CV Joint.

That is all.

I know. Exciting.

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30 Jan 2011

Proliferation of Redundancy

That is essentially what 99% of my purchases produce. Evrar. Yet, I cannot complain, why?


That's why ^-^

And as is immediately apparent, there's a lot that has been purchased that is even more useless than usual. I know, very surprising behaviour from me. I'm not even talking of turbocharger/kit #4 of 5 either!

So what out of this pile of detritus is headed towards the Sainosu, some time between now and the next Ice Age [wishful thinking]? Ouila:


So what is it all you ask? You didn't ask? Well STFU, you'll find out anyway:

Something, I think a CT9



Well, actually, it's a full SARD K24 turbocharger kit, that has recently been rebuilt by Shuhei of Destiny, complete with WPC Treatment of the bearings for nothing of real benefit to me, but it should provide superior wear characteristics. As, you know, I'll have so much time to run this. Along with 4 other turbochargers. In saying that though, the pictured intercooler outlet pipe was made for a GReddy Intercooler kit. Which I will be receiving with my next turbocharger kit.

Yes. I am implying that my idiotic expenditure pattern, has experienced. A twist of fate. Enough much so to even elicit - in my mind - jealousy from M. Night Shamayalan. What a twist! What other useful rubbish was included in my shipment?

E'L Sport EP91 C-Pillar Bar

Obviously needed. For my hatchback. Yeah. Well, rumour had it that an EP91 Pillar Brace would fit Paseo's. Measurements never figured out that rumour. So obviously, throw lots of money towards a largely ineffective brace to prove a point no-one cares about. I am. Master of logic.

And finally, a purchase I am particularly proud of:

"Downhill Activ" EP82 Chassis Floor Braces
Why am I proud for these bent poles? The motive of the purchase, naturally. For. These had been floating on Yahoo for more than a year, with nary an interest. So, I got particularly bored one day, and combined with missing yet another useless item on Yahoo, I was pushed by my inate need to fill expanses of boredom with purchases, to obtain these. And now I have them. So. What do they do?

Pfft, hell if I know.

Teehee. I kid. No, basically they attach to the front control arm mount, somewhere, then along the centre chassis rails. They are essentially a subframe connector, strengthening the main chassis section. Whether they will do anything quantifiable is to be seen. Construction is a bit ghetto fabulous too - befitting - and seem to be stuffed with caulking as well. Much like my head.

Oh, and being for an EP82, i.e. a shorter car than the Cynos, there is a distinct possibility that they will come up, err, short. Win.

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20 Jan 2011

Sip or Quaff to Enjoy



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*Ahem*

I has Quaife's ^_^

I also has a seemingly correct driveshaft. Jubilations! And no, it's not from that putrid excuse of a life-form that still owes it, my TRD CV Joint and my money. So, yeah, that is basically all. For now.

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12 Jan 2011

Another One Bites the Dust

By "One" I means one of my testicles, broken from this mind-numbing wait on behalf of the wretched abortion that is keeping my driveshaft at ransom.

So. I've put a deposit on something else I don't need.

*Sigh*

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16 Dec 2010

Counting Down to Infinity. And Beyond -_-

Waiting...





































































It sucks.

Granted, a little bit of suspense can add to a sensation as it builds anticipation. A microsecond after which, the effect is killed and it just becomes agonising, comatose inducing, waiting. I've been waiting for this godforsaken fracking Driveshaft since May. No solace.

The person who apparently vowed to help me obtain said driveshaft by having one made, as a partial payback for a sum of money he owed to me, has "built anticipation" for the last two months, and then some. And he's just left to Miami (apparently) for a month. And he's also in possession of my CV Joint. And he hasn't paid me back yet. And z0mgWTF etc. I hate his face. So. Naturally, faced with such a dilemma. I spend. On items I don't need. I'll just say, that I should be in receipt of another turbocharger kit shortly, as I obviously need 4 turbochargers.














And I may have reserved another. And I am actively looking for two more turbochargers >_<

Yay for spendens! If you wish to criticise this move, do not afford to waste your valuable typing power. I am pretty sure that the contents of this and the other blog are thus far ample proof of my complete dearth of sense/restraint/care for money ^_^.

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29 Nov 2010

*Tumbleweeds*

If they could somehow tumble from a desert plain, into the internet, and infront of the blog, they would. But they can't.

Anyway. After the proliferation of forward progress on the Cynos, I reached a peak of happenings and goings-on'ness which immediately exploded and crashed. Hence leading to this lull of progress. HAH. Yeah. Too lazy, too little money.

So I treated poor Sainosu! Not to anything it particularly needs mind! First up, a treasured item I had longed for years and years, obviously useless, but I wanted it as it was pretty. Yet a wretched fiend, like several times in those empty years, snatched it out of my hands at the last moment. Kkthx. Punk. Not to worry, I found another set and bought them and I'm all has happeh.

Oh yeah, and these are they:



The Cusco B-Pillar braces. Admire their glory. Thank you. Essentially, ever since finding a desolate webpage illustrating this brace being installed into a Cynos, it was forever my quest to obtain one - it was my quest before then as I feel as many unnecessary parts as possible need to end up on the car in order to. I don't know. Do I need a reason?! I LIKE PARTS ^_^. Anyway, locally, they never turned up, and when they did, they were either too cheap and breezed by my face before I so much as even awakened from some lethargy induced coma, or were too wretchedly expensive that I'd just pout at the computer screen instead. Sure. They were easily available from abroad, but, it'd end up costing 2.5 times the sense of buying them had I done so. Then this local option came. Sacre Bleue, MIEN! Oh wait, Liam. You bitch. You out bought them. Frantic justification of pricing fired off to seller and buyer stating that they are cheaper from Japan for the asking price, new. Nothing. NADA. Whores.

Then, moping around on the internet in my depression of yet again missing this opportunity. Found another set. Same frantic justification for a sizeable (yet not sizeable enough) discount. Get a text. SCORE. Picked up at 1am from his house. DONE! And yeah. That's it. I got some Cusco B-Pillar Braces ^_^. Oh, and whilst bored, I also decided to bid on an EL'Sport EP91 Glanza C-Pillar Brace, as well as what I presume to be a Downhill Activ made EP82 Centre/Transmission Tunnel Brace. Not sure if either will fit, but, neither do most of the other "exploratory items" I try to convince myself are worth the outlay.

I also cried. HARD. Ok. I didn't cry. I pouted at the computer screen again - when this gloriously, purposefully Engrish made entity slipped through my hands before I could make a bidding call:




GALLOP! I need a Gallop seat. NOW. For only a £120 buy it now, and I was dilly dallying as I didn't want to annoy my contact for inane requests o_o. And now, I'm constantly searching for one. Why pray and tell you, Google Bots, may ask yourselves do I require a Carbon Kevlar seat when the car doesn't run? How many times more do I need to say STFU as I don't actually have reasoning behind such decisions? I just do! And I want a Gallop :(. And a Suede Nardi Steering wheel, despite having a perfectly fine leather one. And now, I constantly search them both. I am actually hoping hard that the buyer is too fat for that seat.

Onto more pressing issues, a replacement driveshaft is STILL Missing in Acton Town, nowhere to be seen. I struggle to think what more proactive duties can be performed in the meantime however, so the Cynos sits idly undisturbed in the garage. I am hoping to retrieve one soon, as I cannot spare more hair falling out, and with this weather, I fear I will never see my unmentionables again should I have to work out in the cold. Not that I'd need to see them.

So. Yeah. Bought some stuff. Didn't buy some stuff. Nothing actually done. More of the usual. A lot bought for the other vehicle, but obviously to be noted in the respective blogs.

Oh, and I just remember that one purchase was semi-useful:



Yes. The FCon is now essentially ready to utilise. Well, on installing and wiring in the Linear TPS from an Automatic Starlet. I essentially had to buy a full FCon ECU, Loom and MAP Sensor set, despite already having a newer (3.2 vs. 3.1) ECU and MAP Sensor set, just in order to purchase the Cruise EP82 Wiring Harness that came with those. After arduous forum stalking, I managed to locate said buyer, who has thus far already paid for the ECU, and is having a loom made up by my contact in Japan. So, essentially, the Cruise EP82 Loom that retails for around £500 inclusive of delivery. Was bought for the princely sum of a lot less. ^_^

Otherwise. Wanted: Effort.

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