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Dyno day @ SR Motorcars

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I was obviously having some technical difficulties, turns out one of the bolts were missing on my cam angle sensor (cas) and the hot pipe on the turbo was rubbing against it and somehow was constantly adjusting my timing between 0 to retarding it -5 degrees. Once we got that sorted out we ran it again. It's not a lot, but it's way better than what I was driving around with before for a stock motor. That's how many years old now? Almost 20 without a rebuild and stock head gasket. Once the timing was fixed I stopped boosting 11 pounds and went down to stock boost (lower timing means more boost) so this will be a bit easier on the t25 until I decide which tomei arms turbo I'm going to replace it with. Then we'll really have to do some excavation on Simone.  Here is the full dyno chart for your viewing, all in all it was a great 50 dollars spent for a baseline dyno.

Logan thinks I like 2 tone...

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Taken from blog post  http://www.rogansan.com/blog/?p=24599 WORK Meister S1 3P in Black (BLK) with Red Anodized Barrel & Stainless Assembly Bolts Red Anodized Barrel is discontinued now though, this was the last set done. I don't like two tone wheels, this is why my Volks are just candy apple red, however I am digging the anodized lips. Maybe I should anodize mine and leave the spokes candy apple painted. I like the pearl in the candy that hits you like whoa, the black just takes away from it. And these on a black car on top of everything, just booty.

The creepers catching the ultimate creeper

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Mayday Garage Nisei Coverage part 2

Nisei was fun

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I'll post more of other peoples photos as they pop up... I guess I was walking behind this Toyota Corona while they were trying to take pictures of it. Totally photo bombed it haha. Thanks everyone who took these awesome pictures of my car, and gave me props at the show.

Fuck you Karma

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If this is my payback for everytime I've thrown something out of my car window, you can go eat a dick. Someone threw either a large beer can, a red bull, or a spraycan onto the freeway as I was merging onto it and I couldn't do shit but hit it going 75 mph. Took a nice chunk of my NEW paint off of the front bumper along with some resin, awesome. 

In Palmdale, getting Simone ready for Nisei

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I didn't take these pics, I took them off of my brothers facebook. He just painted his corolla, did some body work on it too, shaved the passenger side keyhole, trunk keyhole, the rear reflector's and the antenna. I didn't even notice lol but it's coming together after 5 years finally. Here is a shot of my car after my brother started the wet sanding, he didn't wetsand the lower lip as he expects me to fuck up the paint anyway lol. And after the buffing was done, he asked if I wanted him to buff it before nisei but I'll do it by hand instead.