Apache Racing in Saitama Japan has come up with new widebody kit. Partnering with the custom guys from Final Konnexion and Brian Crower. The kit has design cues of legendary Super GT -series R34 bodykit. It can be mounted on GT-R or GT-t and it uses oem Nissan/Nismo GT-R front & rear bumpers.
The cars debyt is this weekend in Tokyo Auto Salon 2010.
This is how it started.
Molded bits ready.
Starting to take shape. Notice the rear quarter, it panel goes all the way up to the trunk line. So you can fit this to either GT-t or GT-R.
Nice touch is the "stockish looking" GT-R wing with extended wing plates.
Monester offset & fitment in wheels is Final Konnexions trademark. Notice that the side sills are made out of carbon fibre.
This is how she looked today at the Final Konnexion's booth at TAS 2010.
Long time no see, or something. Tuners crew has been wasted lately so we havent got time to update ouer blog for while.. so.. heres couple desktop backrounds for you:
It's been snowing for 2 days now, at least in Helsinki Finland...
I got a video from my friend up north. Check out the latest film from the Riders Of Cold Kingdom -crew aka R.O.C.K. from Sodankylä (War Village) Finland.
The X-treme show held in centre of Helsinki. The show had Customs, Hot Rods, Tuning, Styling, Ice, Motorsport, Bikes and more... The 2009 Nordic Tuner Awards Finals were held as well, with some 40 show cars around Scandinavia. The show program had live stage, with some random guests. The international guests from USA, like the moroons Duane Meyer (ex-Boyd Coddington employee) and Bernt Karlsson aka the Discovery Channel TV-series American Hot Rod guys. Duane almost got he's ass kicked at the night club – what a joke this dude is. Just as dumb the TV-series let's him to be. Eventually he got kicked out at the afterparty, hah. I talked with Bernt at the saturday night X-treme afterparty – he was alright. He was very keen on finnish girls, lol. Well, this was s nice show, but it missed a bit of cars in my opinion. Could have had more to see!?
Puppe's Supra with HC Graphics theme
Lemppa's +1000 hp RB26DETT. The reasent make over had, Carbon doors, bootlid etc. Bumpers are coming next, nice & light.
This beast had the fattest rear rims ever. Sick!
De Palma themed Impala. Nice three wheel motion, best old school in my opinion.
You can't go wrong with a HKS T51R turbo. This set up was found to feed 2JZ Supra.
After driving happily with the Evo through the summer it was time to show it some love and do some basic maintenance. On the list for the day was changing the engine oil, change the brake discs and pads in all four corners and the brake fluid. After driving the car on the track once this summer I noticed that the brakes started to fade really quickly and that at least the discs felt very worn out. I decided to change both the discs and pads all around to be on the safe side and at the same time upgrade to proper brake fluid as well. I ordered the brake discs and pads from Camskill UK since they offered a great package deal and fast and cheap delivery to Finland. Ideally I would have liked to upgrade to a bit "better" discs and pads especially for the front but this time I decided to go with stock parts.
As for the brake fluid I got Motul RBF 600 Racing DOT 4.
The brake fluid, as well as the oil, was bought from a local store TI-Tarvike Oy.
As for the oil I decided to with Castrol Edge 10W-60.
A new OEM oil filter and gasket for the drain plug was naturally also bought.
We started off by changing the oil and the oil filter. About 4,5l of fresh Castrol was poured into the engine.
After this it was time to tackle the brakes. The whole process turned out to be quite simple and the only small problem we encountered was the rear discs that was a bit jammed but eventually we got them off as well.
The old pads were actually in quite good shape (no idea about the quality though) but the discs were really worn out so it seemed like a good decision to change everything.
Old discs off...
..and new ones on After this the brake fluid was changed (the old fluid had seen better days) and the brakes bled and now the car was ready to rumble again.
Big up to Nikke once again for all the help and providing the great space to work in!
Vintage Rally Car Practice! A new Rally video has DC Co-Founder and Rally Team Member Ken Block having a bit of fun in a vintage rear wheel drive Ford Escort at Team O’Neal’s Rally School in New Hampshire. World Rally Championship driver, Chris Atkinson joined Block for the practice and video that resulted, now live at dcshoes.com/auto.
Block purchased the vintage rear-wheel-drive rally car to practice and have fun in. Wanting to broaden his rally skills, the Euro-only-spec 1978 Ford Escort MK2 helps him let loose in a few non-Rally America Championship events. Don’t let the vintage shell fool you—under the hood sits a 2.4-liter, four-cylinder Millington engine that boasts 280 BHP. Couple that with a WRC-styled paddle shifting, six speed sequential gearbox and you have one fast vintage rally car.
Block took the car to Team O’Neil’s Rally School in July 2009 to put the vintage rally car through it’s paces, and Former Subaru World Rally Team driver Chris Atkinson joined Block to break it in. Neither Block nor Atkinson have much experience in RWD cars, so the rally session and video is a good look at the two of them to flip flopping between the driver and passenger seats.
Block will enter select races each year with this car, including Rally Defi in Canada this coming weekend, September 11-12. Block returns to serious Rally America National Championship competition—in a Subaru Impreza WRX STI—at Rally Colorado, September 19-20.
How do you improve on DC Co-Founder and Rally Team Member Ken Block’s insane Gymkhana Practice and Gymkhana TWO videos? On the heels of the hilarious episode of “Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory” on MTV, DC has released Gymkhana 2.1, a funny new video available now online featuring longtime friends Dyrdek and Block whipping around a Gymkhana course side-by-side—Block in his high-powered Subaru Impreza WRX STI, Dyrdek in his comical and somewhat powerful miniature version of Block’s rally car.
Gymkhana 2.1 takes the epic cinematography and driving from Block that you’ve come to expect from the Gymkhana videos and mixes in Dyrdek and his “mini-Gymkhana” kart. The two, who have worked together and been good friends since Dyrdek joined the DC skate team in 1995, decided to get the kart built and film the clip when Dyrdek made an appearance in the Gymkhana TWO video earlier this year. A custom mold was made to build it nearly identical to Block’s Subaru Impreza WRX STI (except for the head-out-the-roof part). The kart was wrapped in the same graphics as Block’s competition rally car, and a custom fireproof, FIA certified driving suit just like Block’s was even made for Dyrdek by Alpinestars.
The complete version of Gymkhana 2.1 features more of what’s seen on Dyrdek’s hit MTV show. Filmed in the same high-quality, HD style as the previous installments of Block’s Gymkhana videos, Dyrdek and Block brought the filming crew to El Toro Airfield to document the whole thing. The Gymkhana 2.1 video features all the near run-overs, drifting, racing and shenanigans that occur when two unique individuals like Dyrdek and Block hit the tarmac in polar-opposite-sized whips.
Alpinestars made Rob this custom driving suit specifically for this session.
Dig what you see? More of Rob's fantacy... The Fantacy Factory – amazing indoor skate plaza, foam pit, basketball set up, garage for his 3 wheeled car, pet living quarters and much, much more.
Mr. Dyrdek in the Fantasy Factory office surrounded by 17 years of Alien Workshop Skateboard history.
