thanks.. :P
just give yours a good scrub up n polish! mines battered and 15 shades of red, but i keep it so clean that people rarely notice...
 
randomly, drove down to apollo bay yesterday and had a lemon gelati.
was a top notch day for it.. sunroof-out weather in winter! :)

near 500km round trip, and half a day.. but fkn worth it.
car drove amazingly. and AW11 steering.. goddamn.. its ****ing magic.

more.
moremore.
just photos of the same, but its good practice.
i wish i was better with the camera. i need to figure out how to get the colours better on days which arent ideal. its all well and good on sunny days when the sun is rising/setting (hard pressed taking a bad photo..!) but its winter.. and its not like that now. the sky is grey and colours dull.. so everything looks washed out and sad. bring any light to the car, and next thing the sky is just white <_<
but thats for later. lots to learn.













i think thats enough... :S
 
in other news; put a new (old) clock in today. id been without one for years now - it faded off in 2007 or so, after coming and going for months.
fairly dissapointing process really. the car is just so damn old.. everything is tired. the whole dash skin is like egg-shells, and will crack with finger pressure. clips constantly break, things rattle.. and theres just not alot i can do about it.
managed to get to the clock by removing the radio, which let me put my hand up behind the middle dash vent. removed that, then i could stick my hand in there and get to the clips at the back of the clock.
anyway, it works.. and im happy.
 

Great car and great pics.  Re sky blowing out in the pics if you lighten the car, you cant really help that unless you use a graduated ND filter for the sky, or combine 2 pics with one exposed for the sky, one for the car. Re bringing out the colours in the car, usually increasing saturation helps.  Do you shoot RAW or JPG?
 
Cheers

i've heard about those.. i really should look into some different filters, as it might solve alot of my troubles with light and colours. i actually have a UV filter clipped onto the 35-70 lens all the time, but i have no idea what it does! almost all the time i use a fixed 50mm f1.8 lens that doesnt have room for things to clip on the front?
i just take the pictures in large jpeg format.. never even really tried the raw function. i have the saturation and sharpness notched up from standard anyway, as the camera's colour's out of the box are shocking. so damn washed out.. all the time.
 
i think im going to go hunt down some different filters. bit of reading to do now..! :)

UV filter is mainly to protect the front lens element, maybe cut down some haze over long distances etc.  You should be able to screw a filter onto the front of your 50mm, should have a female thread on the end.  If you decide to play with raw, set your camera to do raw and jpg, so you can quickly do things if required, raw is usually much slower, but gives you options to change white balance, a fair bit of exposure etc.  you should use photoshop or similar for maximum benefit of raw.  You can rescue what would otherwise be a lost jpg if the camera stuffed it up.

update time..
 
got the car back from having the box rebuilt just last thursday. missed the **** out of it. :$
almost everything in the trans-axle was fried.. and a mount on the casing had ripped off. :P so all replaced, and the Quaife in!
first impression was disappointing. shifting is hard, and everything is really stiff. it was also hard to get it into gear.. pretty much every gear. BUT, this has freed up now, and its getting better and better. also the LSD is a huge plus, as it doesn't do hectik singles up my driveway anymore (woo...!), and for whatever reason it really feels a whole lot more planted in the rear end.
on a side note, the engine is going harder than it ever has; really screams along for a NA 1.6. what was left of the old exhaust (and moreso the cat) must have really been holding it back.. :S
 
in OTHER news, my cooler arrived:

which came along with a pair of cam covers i dragged out of Japan.

it may have been pretty silly to get something like that from Japan, but they looked great in the ad on yahoo japan. totally worth it though.. the quality was fantastic. i usually expect to be slightly disappointed with everything... 80% or so.. but occasionally I'm pleasantly surprised! they'd done a TOP job. perfectly clean, perfect paint and machining on the letters, and new seals to boot!
put them in straight away..! Running it without the valley cover because it just looks so much better... but hopefully theres no downside here!

nice and clean..

! :D
 
car also got new front indicator lenses..

and random photos..





 
and random photos from around the city...










 
all good. :)
 
 

quick question - what suspension are you running?

Lol, I know exactly where you took those photos as I work near there :)
Looking very nice as usual, but i'd like to know how you keep your front lip spoiler so nice? Mine's scratched and chipped like crazy.....

^^ its a cool backdrop eh! just stopped in the middle of the road on the speedhump. few weird looks from the foot-traffic in the area. :P
 
mr2pod - its on BC BR coil-overs.
might wind it a bit further down when the new wheels arrive.. depends on how it looks.
 
 
 
 
 

RdS
  its on BC BR coil-overs.

 
How do you find these? not too harsh? very close to buying some myself.