Wekfest LA : It's On

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Hello everyone,

Welcome back to another entry of Simone, the basic 240sx owned by Wayne T. Edwards, in this entry we'll talk wekfest. By chance I am going to parlay with my friends from the Phaze 2 camp, so I'm happy for the opportunity as I have yet to do a WekFest show in Southern California, the only one I've ever registered for was in Nor Cal back when Adam Luong was associated with the camp.

So it was more in support of him, I don't really keep up with everyones personal lives but I know he's not a part of it anymore so there was no motive for me to really attend. However; a lot of my friends that I've known over the years seem to really like this venue and are big supporters of each other. I believe Joey Lee is also a guest judge or something not that it even matters. I'm just talking out of my ass, whats important is I can hang out with my friends, and bring what I feel is a quality 240sx to the show.

Aside from the company car, that has company money into it, and Leon Casino's Falken Tires sponsored s14. There really were no hard hitter kouki s14's at wekfest, a lot of zenkies, some half assed s14's. (you know who you are.) And a lot of other model nissans.

So that is mainly my motive behind bringing my car. Instead of just myself, I'm not one for trophies, or anything like that. This isn't a show car, it's a slow car!

Some things I would like to get sorted before the 31st.

GETTING RID OF THE 225/35/18's up front


Originally these were purchased back in 2013 I believe when I finally mounted my Kranze LXZ's before I purchased the BN Sports fenders, the rims were wider than my 12mm vertex fenders. I only had 3 options here. Buy another pair of less aggressive LXZ's for 1800 dollars and sell the ones I had. Spend 800 dollars on bigger fenders. Or buy aggressively stretched tires and run some decent camber and keep my fenders.

I went with the least expensive option at the time, that worked for a bit until the tires ate the fender.


But now that I have the bn sports fenders, I have way too much gap. It looks gross, like I didn't know what I was doing when I purchased my tires.



This can be alleviated by purchasing some new rubber for the front. It is absolutely not necessary to do right now financially but, it's been an eyesore to me for way too long. so 265/35/18's will be run up front. Some REAL rubber for 10in wheels, I imagine it's going to make the front of the car look even more aggressive, I cannot wait.

NUMBER TWO : FADED ASS TAILLIGHTS 

Second on my list of eyesores is the faded ass stock tail lights, I've gone back and forth multiple times on the options I would like, tails from clearcorners.com, ebay leds, a new set of kouki tails that will eventually fade again.


While I think the gray adds a nice color contrast to the rear of the car, it just looks dated, and takes away from the paint especially when I actually bother to wax this thing.


So I will be dropping off the taillights to my good friend Richard Rabe to hit em with some black trim, and candy red clear. (I won't be painting the nissan logo or the reverse lights), in all honesty if it were up to me I'd love to get together with someone who makes taillights and just completely re-design the s14 taillights. I've seen like 50 different taillights come out for the fr-s that sell like hotcakes, everyone is already buying those shitty led ebay tails for the s14.

Why not make something new for this car, nice led lights similar to those new bmw's with the led sweepers in them? I love those taillights!


I think something like this would add a really fresh look to the s14 paired up with some other features like that crazy ass s15 bodied s14's led lights.


Oh well, maybe someday someone will start designing cool shit for our cars again... Till then I guess I'm stuck with a boring re-finish of some faded black vinyl...

Nothing crazy or complicated, right? I guess the car could use some touch up paint and a decent detail job, so I'll have to schedule that as well for the month.

Lets see how it goes.

- Wayne

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