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2010-04-29T16:01:00.002+03:00

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ACS / TCS 2010 – Bee*R in the Club

2010-04-07T21:02:00.010+03:00

The annual easter car show was held at Helsingin Messukeskus (Expo Center). It's a 4 day mayhem of American classics and dragsters etc, the other half is full of Euro, Jap, Tuned and exotic flavors. Drifers, lowriders, ICE cars etc. One corner is stuffed of Street Fighters and other motor bikes.

This year Alien2nrs-crew & friends were hanging at TeamFalken.fi stand [read - motorhome], enjoying the laid back scene [read - drinking BeeR].
I helped few friends with their graphics (HC Graphics), like Samuli's [skylineracing.com] Time Attack GT-R, Puppe Speed's styled MK4 Supra, Valtonen's mental RX-7 (Powered by Nissan SR20DET), Nikke's #02 car aka S13, Team Falken Drifter and Atte's Techart Porsche to name a few.
Juhis did he's usual stuff, the Team Falken video loop for the pit screens and some photoshooting.

I didn't want to take my car again to this show, so I did something else. The expo has an official party always on the second day of the 4 day extravaganza.
I got asked if I wanted to take my car to the afterparty – to the Club? Yes, that's right. Well it's first time for that, I thought.

Here's the results:

The guest star for the evening was rap artist Redrama.

This thread would be worthless with out pics. Juhis worked he's magic behind the lens again, check the out pics here: ACS/TCS 2010.

Here's a poor video clip of the afterpartys club flavors.

This was shot at The Circus nightclub in Helsinki. It took us few hours to get the car up on the stage. I think it was worth it, what a night! Thanks for everyone who came along.

2010 World Time Attack Challenge

2010-03-18T12:20:00.005+02:00

Take a sneak peak what's probably going to be one of the finest Time Attack events this year.

The cars for the event:

Hi Octane / Advan Nissan GT-R R34 – Engine: RB30DETT (RB30 Block and RB26 Head), Estimated Power: 600 HPATW

2010 Unlimited AWD Scion tC – Engine: 2.4L Toyota 2AZFE, Driver: Chris Rado, Estimated: Power 1000 HPATW

Tomei / Cusco Subaru Impreza TA WRX – Driver: Eiji (Tarzan) Yamada, Engine: EJ25 (2.5L Flat 4 Cylinder), Estimated Power: 500 HPATW

R-Magic Pink No. 4 MAZDA RX7 FD3S TYPE R – Driver: Kinoshita Mitsuhiro, Power: 589.3 ps/8184 rpm

Sun Automobile Cyber Evo TA – Engine: 4G63, Driver: Eiji (Tarzan) Yamada, Estimated Power: 700 HPATW

FX Motorosport Honda NSX – Engine: FXMD Modified C30A, Driver: Billy Johnson, Estimated Power: 600 HPATW

Pan Speed Mazda RX-7 – Engine: 13B rotary (654cc), GCG T04Z Turbine...

NOTARAS Mitsu Evo 9 – Engine: 4G63 (2.3L), Driver: Steve Owen, Estimated Power: 590HPATW

Sierra Sierra Mitsu Evo – Endine: 4G63 2.2L (off the shelf short block), Estimated Power: 560 HPATW

BSM Nissan GT-R R32 – Engine: RB26DETT, Estimated Power: 600HPATW

APC Racing Mitsu Evo 8 MR – Engine: 4G63, Driver: Cameron Dyal, Estimated Power: 600 HPATW

999 Automotive Honda Integra – Engine: K20A (2.4L), Driver: Jun San Chen, Estimated Power: 400 HPATW

Unique Auto Sports 1991 Nissan 300ZX Twin Turbo – Engine: VQ30 Twin Turbo, Estimated Power: 576 HPATW

TILTON Mitsu Evo 9 – Engine: 4G63 (2.1L), Driver: Gareth Walden, Estimated Power: 600HPATW

Here's just few of the cars from Japan's, USA's & Aussie's track weapons.

The event is held in Sidney – Eastern Creek Raceway, 21-22 may 2010.

Read more about it: www.worldtimeattack.com

CarbonVision feature

2010-03-01T15:19:00.007+02:00

CARBONVISION - Bee*R car feature

Wow! CarbonVision is a Online Tuning Magazine based in Netherlands.

Jordy de Droog (aka JorDinhO) is one of the CarbonVision crew, he asked if he could do a feature of my car.

Well, here's the result. Pictures by Juhis. Props to everyone behind this collaboration.

Here's a link to the full feature: BeeR CarbonVision

Check out the other features of really clean rides: www.carbonvision.nl

TEIN - Dampachi & Dampatty

2010-02-12T13:26:00.016+02:00

If you're ever heard about the Japanese suspension brand TEIN, you have propably heard of TEIN's mascot Dampachi!?!

Well, Dampachi just got a new girl friend – Dampatty, a shy girl that we don't know very much about just yet. This is what TEIN says about her:

– We would like to thank you all for your continuous support and we would like to take this opportunity to introduce you to our latest mascot “Dampatty”, the girlfriend of our existing loveable mascot “Dampachi”.

“Dampachi” will be joined by “Dampatty” to promote all TEIN products from henceforth and we hope you will all welcome and support our new mascot.

Here's Dampchi's personal profile:

Name: Dampachi
Sex: Male
DOB: March 10, 1985
Birth Place: Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Main Characteristics: Large Eyes, 4-dimensional extra reservoir tank on his back
Body Height: Inconstant, as his head (rod) moves up and down.
Body Weight: Unknown, as it changes with the imposed load.
Favorites: Nitrogen Gas, High-Performance Oil
Special Talent: He uses his magical force, generated with his 4-dimensional extra reservoir tank on his back, to help struggling people shorten their lap-times on circuits and other motorsport battle fields.This ability has made many people happy!
Frequently Appears on: Circuits
Personality: He has a highly competitive spirit. When he could not get the result he wanted in races, he would use his magical power from his 4-dimensional tank to prepare himself to be in good shape for the next race. He is resourceful and acts tactfully in approaching various matters, by effectively using his 4-dimensional tank and twisting the top of his head.
Family Structure: Unknown.
There are rumors around that he has a father, who wears a hat and a brother in a different color...

Random new TEIN stuff:

Window ornaments...

... or computer gizmos.

The "Dampa family" with our view ;)

TEIN: Dampachi & Dampatty VS. TERRORIST: Tuner-Dampa.

Ferbruary 2010 desktop calendar (click for 1280x960).

*TEIN logo mark and DAMPACHI are registered trademarks of TEIN, INC.

** TERRORIST logo mark and Tuner-Dampa are registered trademarks of ALIEN2NRS.COM & ALIENMOTORSPORT.COM

R34 Super GT Widebody

2010-01-16T00:39:00.007+02:00

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.

Desktop backrounds vol2

2010-01-14T22:07:00.004+02:00

Desktop backrounds

2010-01-13T22:16:00.004+02:00

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:

Season's greetings

2009-12-23T12:01:00.005+02:00

It's time for some old classics :D

Rare Exports (Movie 1 – The Original Film)

Rare Exports (Movie 2 – The Official Safety Instructions)

The 3th part is a full movie! It's coming out next xmas...
more info: www.rareexportsmovie.com

Rally group B

2009-12-04T14:41:00.004+02:00

I found this awesome video from youtube, just brutal power and no any modern hi-tech BS...Enjoy sounds

Winter is here!

2009-11-05T14:30:00.005+02:00

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.

View the film full here: The Dream

More info of the sled crew: R.O.C.K.

X-treme Car Show 2009

2009-10-07T19:58:00.007+03:00

X-treme Tuning & Custom Car Show

The show was held in Helsinki Ice Hockey hall.

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.

Chop Chop... Jacob's Custom

The Woodruff Special - well, at least it was low!

So clean, so powerful, so loud...

Varis widebody Evo, just so brutal!

More pics by Juhis, found here.

And pics by X-treme's gallery.

Random garage shot

2009-09-25T11:26:00.002+03:00

Some project pics here

Evo maintenance

2009-09-23T08:45:00.006+03:00

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!

Ken Block & Chris Atkinson = RWD fun

2009-09-15T10:14:00.003+03:00

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.

Ken Block and Chris Atkinson

Eurocruising 2009

2009-09-13T13:14:00.006+03:00

Couple photos on this years first and only Eurocruising night.

Cassu posing with his Merc ML

Teemu´s Subaru and Pade´s Evo on back. As you can see it was very dark and rained once a while.

Some random Hondaaah

Some Merc again...

Cassu´s ML again

Bee*r

MK IV Supra with new stickers by HC-Graphics

Rest of the pics here http://molsa.pictures.fi/kuvat/Show++++Happenings/Eurocruising+4.9.2009/

Gymkhana 2.1 – Ken Block & Rob Dyrdek

2009-09-09T10:13:00.007+03:00

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.

Watch all full episodes of the season one, here.

Fantacy Factory

DC Shoes Auto

Neste Rally Finland

2009-09-05T16:47:00.009+03:00

Alien2nrs where cheking some Rally action about month ago, but we all have been really busy with our own projects that we haven't had time to post anything about that on blog... so here you go!

Maybe the biggest nutcase was the Russian driver Novikov whos jump was one the longest of the race. He just had a bit bad landing... pics from the Special Stage Leustu.

Citroen space shuttle with two Russian cosmonauts jumped at the speed of 146 km/h (91 mph). Yes, they had radar just before the jump. Sick speeds on gravel, huh. The jump was 55 meters (180 ft) long, landing bumper first.
Unfortunately, they had an accident later that day and could not finish the race.

Some Fwd jumping..

Lasse talking with De Sanctis who have been here quite many times :)

LOTS of pics here: Neste Rally Finland 2009

Helsinki international air show

2009-09-01T14:08:00.002+03:00

Alien2nrs team was visiting Helsinki international air show 15-16th august in small Helsinki-Malmi airport, Whole show was very well organized and it gathered 72000 spectators in two days.

Even airport was small they succeed to have there varied range of planes, from small ultras to Red Bull DC-6.

Also Finnish military aviation was well present.

Proper photos here --> http://www.helsinkiairshow.fi/cms/galleria/?gid=6

In both day there was car vs airplane competition.

Car was no less than genuine legendary group-b Audi quatro S1, driven and owned by Juha Kankkunen!!

I had been send from Helsinki-Vantaa main airport to help local airport staff, so i had opportunity see it closer.

When asked nicely i was able to get in that beast and have a short ride as Juha moved it out of ramp area.

I have to say it was first time for me in working time to have a ride with group-b beast which was driven 4 time rally champion...LOL

Mitsubishi Evolution IX GSR -06

2009-08-26T21:04:00.004+03:00

Allrighty, I thought it would be time to introduce the newest member of this crew. The car has already featured shortly in this blog before, in the white car photoshoot by Juhis but here's a short introduction and some specs.

After owning two Saabs (yeah, go figure) I just got a sudden urge of trying something totally different. After some serious surfing on the web I spotted a white, slightly modded, Evo 9 for sale in western Finland and I decided I just got to have it. I did some research on the car and also found out that it is supposed to be the only white street registered Evo 9 in Finland.

After some initial troubles with getting a deal on the car the papers were finally signed in february 2009 and I was a happy owner of a Evo 9 :)

Here are some specs on the car:

Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX GSR -06

Engine:
- 4G63 MIVEC – 2.0 16v Turbo
- ARP head studs
- APS cold air intake
- Custom full 3" exhaust
- Printsport/Karala reprogrammed ECU
- Samco silicone radiator hose kit

Suspension, Brakes, Wheels and Tires:
- TEIN S-Tech lowering springs
- BREMBO brakes
- Advan RG II 9*18" +29
- Falken FK452 255/35-18
- Project Kics R40 NEO Chrono Racing Composite lug nuts

Exterior:
- Carbon fiber canards
- Carbon fiber side spats
- Vortex generator

Some future plans for the car (within an undefined period of time) include the following:

- Install coilovers (Tein Mono Flex are bought and waiting)
- Install a xenon-kit
- Change the brake discs and pads which are quite worn out
- Upgrade the clutch, probably a Exedy Hyper Twin Plate
- Upgrade some bushings and sway bars in the suspension
- Change the cold air intake, probably to HKS Racing Suction Reloaded
- Upgrade the intercooler + pipes
- New manifold and possibly some nice new catback (drooling at the Agency Power catback)
- Defi Link BF meters
- Maybe some bodykit at some point
- A serious buffing session

That's about it for now. More info and pictures when thins start to happen again.

Over and out!

Cleaning enginebay

2009-08-22T22:15:00.007+03:00

Now that car have a good start in exterior look, its time to start make enginebay cleaner.

11 years have done its duty and lot be done, so have to start somewhere.

It started with changing intake pipe and adding radiator coolingplate.

Zero/Sports intake pipe and radiator plate.

Zero/Sports quality is excellent as usual.

Lot to be done, but its a good start.

HKS Europes new website launched

2009-08-18T12:30:00.006+03:00

The new website not only has improved presentation but more information about products, fitments etc.
The new site also incorporates a news section where new product information and other HKS Europe activities will be posted.

Read more: www.hkseurope.com

Rally Finland: What makes the Finns such good racing drivers?

2009-07-24T14:49:00.003+03:00

Again Alien2nrs crew is heading for "Gravel Grand Prix" aka Rally Finland.

Neil Cole said it quite good....

It was nice of Top Gear to remember rallying a few weeks back; that airbase Impreza-dressage by a goofy American skateboard-shoe millionaire was fun and impressively-filmed. But to a rally fan that is just a walk in the park... almost literally. Just like the car-chase sequence at the start of Quantum Of Solace - grown stuntmen went "Perfomance cars? Sideways? On gravel? Next to a big drop? No thanks! Run away!!..." so up steps triple British Rally Champion Mark Higgins, happy to take the wheel of a Bond villain's Alfa Romeo and drive under what, to him, are entirely normal conditions. That is what I love about rallying; whether you're standing knee-deep in Norwegian snow, or next to a Tex Avery-style Mexican cactus, or in sideways freezing Welsh rain, the popping banging whistling physics-defying hunk of metal flying past is NORMAL.

And so to Finland. We are entering the last 3rd of the 2009 season - and incredibly the World Championship is genuinely competitive again. Loeb's Schumacher-like 5-year stranglehold on the sport, like his unfair share of the good luck, has dissipated in three consecutive bad results. Which means the pressure is on everyone this weekend. Couple that with the fact that Rally Finland is already the fastest, craziest, most flat-out rally of the year - the "Gravel Grand Prix" - and I cannot WAIT to endure the mosquitoes and vodka'd-up Finns in the lakey forests outside Jyvaskyla to catch a glimpse of a WRC car always sideways, usually in mid-air, often millimetres away from disaster. Normal... for the Finns.

There are many theories as to why the Finns make such good rally drivers - "they are driving farm vehicles before they can walk" "they learn to drive on snow & gravel rather than tarmac & speed-bumps" "they are driven self-endangeringly nuts by daylight-free winters". Perhaps it is this "Sisu" they talk about - "Sisu" is a Finnish word, whose meaning is somewhere between "cojones" and "chutzpah"... or as Sebastien Loeb told me back in 2005 "big balls". And he should know - even in his recent all-conquering years becoming the most successful driver in the history of the sport, it took him until 2008 to win there, and arguably deserve the greatest rallying accolade - letters after his name like the Toivonens, Makinens, Vatanens, Kankkunens, Salonens before him: Loebinen.

Big talking point right now is Jari-Matti Latvala. Undisputably one of the fastest, most exciting drivers out there... but also unreliable. I think, this weekend, he will either end up on the podium or in one of the thousand lakes this event used to be named after. One thing is for sure, if he's leading on Sunday ahead of team-mate Mikko Hirvonen, he can expect the kind of team orders Malcolm Wilson charitably (and now I am sure ruefully) avoided in Sardinia. After the frankly stupid mistake in Poland - which, come the end of the season, could cost Ford both championships - JML will be lucky if the boss is still speaking to him. He certainly wasn't the last time I saw them. Former World Champion Petter Solberg had an interesting perspective on JML: "It's not like people can blame it on his age, he's not young any more... and he's done more rallies than me!"

We will also see Kimi Raikkonen out of his current F1 Ferrari discomfort-zone, cutting loose in a Punto, competing for the first time ever in a WRC event. He is excited about it, despite appearances to the contrary. Finns, especially Kimi, have a reputation for being grumpy and over-serious - but I just think that's a language thing... their monotone speech patterns mean that a phrase like "I am extremely happy" is delivered in the same tone as "I may have run over your grandmother". But they do have a heart, honest; some of my best friends are Finns.

Enjoy Rally Finland - it is one of the best sporting events known to humanity. I shall be there - watch the highlights on Dave on Sunday night at 6pm, but I also have a habit of breaking big news on twitter, so feel free to follow me @neilcole. One thing is for sure, as the world's best rally drivers push themselves over the limit, it will take more than the latest double diffuser to decide this one... in Finland the "aero package" is simply the balls you need to go big over the jumps.

http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/motorsport/2009/07/rally-finland-what-makes-the-f.html

Pikes peaks 2009

2009-07-24T14:41:00.002+03:00

Take a fin if you want to win!... well almost :) here is nice vid of Marcus Grönholm´s this years Pike peaks run:

And ofcourse this legendery run of Ari Vatanen:

OFFROAD!!!!

2009-07-19T19:10:00.003+03:00

Sometimes its good to go back in nature :)

http://molsa.pictures.fi/kuvat/Video/offroad.mp4

DC Gymkhana Spoof

2009-07-17T15:05:00.004+03:00

Don't try this at home...

After Ken Block's first spectacular "Gymkhana Practice" tire-hazed its way to Internet popularity, IMV Films geared up to produce a ridiculous SPOOF of the original. Make no mistake, this over-the-top video IS SARCASTIC, RATHER THAN SERIOUS... all with a wicked sense of humor*.

*Don't complain about poor taste or professionalism if you:
1- HAVE NO SENSE OF HUMOR
2- ARE A PRUDE.
3- ARE PRO-LIFE

The TOTAL, all-inclusive budget (including vehicle + all equipment / props) was 1/10th the cost of a single "Gymkhana Racing Engine."

See for yourself what makes (or doesn't make) this video, IMV Films "Gymkhana" Practice.

Great success @ HONDATECH for generous & timeless support of such Gymkhana videos via forum ROFLCOPTER.

Be sure to check out our lineup of websites:
http://www.IMVFilms.com
http://www.BATTERYAPPAREL.com
http://www.INTMO.com

(DISCLAIMER: THE FEATURED DRIVER IN THIS VIDEO WAS ADAMANT ABOUT NOT PERFORMING ANY ILLEGAL STUNTS. 3 OTHER STUNT DRIVERS AND STAND-INS WERE USED TO MIMIC THE FEATURED DRIVER DURING SEVERAL STUNTS AND LOCATION SHOOTS. ALL STUNTS WERE PERFORMED BY PROFESSIONALS OR UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF PROFESSIONALS ON CLOSED ROADS + STUNT CARS. IMV FILMS ASKS THAT YOU DO NOT ATTEMPT TO RECREATE OR REENACT ANY OF THE SEEN FOOTAGE.)

New suspension for Impreza

2009-07-14T02:21:00.004+03:00

Impreza´s suspension was also updated by fitting TEIN super street coilover set with pillowball upper mounts.

Old TEIN springs and KYB shocks.

New set fitted.

Adjusting camber, caster and toe.

Camber was set in 1.20 degrees angle which helped to reduce typical annoying understeer of Impreza.

Many thanks for Nikke about fitting and adjusting suspension!

New wheel nuts

2009-07-14T01:13:00.007+03:00

Impreza´s stock wheel nuts have been updated to Project mu nuts, which were imported from Japan by RaceBreed.fi.

Stock nuts

Project mu

White car photoshoot part2

2009-07-12T15:37:00.002+03:00

Niklas VW Golf GTI.

White car photoshoot part1

2009-07-07T22:23:00.002+03:00

First Pade´s evo 9.

More to come...

Ken Block on Top Gear

2009-07-07T22:14:00.000+03:00

Chrome painted Beemer

2009-07-06T13:26:00.004+03:00

My friend called, he's selling he's Beemer. The trick is the paint – it's fully cromed!

BMW 318 Ti M-sport, 1996

Check the video & contact info: Chrome Beemer

Hope it finds a good home.

Helsinki X-treme Festival

2009-06-15T11:48:00.014+03:00

Helsinki X-treme Festival 12.-13.6.09

Drift event (X-treme Pro Drifting Trophy) & Car Show (The Nordic Tuner Awards) in the middle of Helsinki City, nice!

Friday started by drifting qualification runs. My team mates at Team Falken had done a great job getting the RX-7 running. The Nissan powered and Holset boosted devil had it's first dyno run just night before the event.

The cars engine was just been driven in and getting some settings & set-ups done by Mr. Valtonen from Valtonen Motorsport. He's the man behind this build and the driver of the car as well. Everything went pretty well considering that this car had never been driven since the build.

By the end of friday, Nikke from Team Falken was on the 1st place. Ossi was on the 5th place. So it was looking good for the team.

Saturday opened up really dark, but luckily it didn't rain all day.
Nikke was pushing really good till he did a little mistake and spun the car = 0 points. He lost at the bronze battle and finished at the 4th place.

Ossi on the other hand had really good pace, until he broke the drive shafts end.

It was the 3rd set for the weekend and the team didn't have any more spares.
So, Nikke lent he's car to Ossi, witch ended in good results.

Ossi won at the finals after really tight "One-more-time" -run and Leffe Hausselman from Åland came 2nd. Marko Hyvönen who had technical problems and got he's team mates car for the finals finished 3rd place.
What a birth day gift to Ossi who turned 30 at saturday, Congrats mate!

The X-Treme Festival also had a car show - The Nordic Tuner Awards.
My car ended in the Top 10 of the show. It was nice surprise. The Sweds had the best cars on the show IMO.

The Evos were super sick.

Mr. zEvo's Varis Super Taikyu -kitted beast was something truly unique. Read more about it here: zEvo Blog

More pics by Juhis: X-treme Festival

The event's own website should have some pics soon as well.

Subaru Club Finland "Time attack 2"

2009-06-09T00:34:00.001+03:00

Again we were checking Subaru Club Finland "time attack" evening with Juhis, this time i also made few laps with my Impreza.

It was raining but tires and suspension worked perfectly.

At least most of time.

Other pictures by Juhis:

http://www.molsa.pictures.fi/kuvat/Show++++Happenings/Subaru+Club+Finland+2/

Ken Block - Gymkhana TWO Project

2009-06-01T20:01:00.002+03:00

Yep! Here it finally is – the Gymkhana Two Project aka THE INFOMERCIAL!!!

Ken Block, proper nutter, LOL

Ken Block's Gymkhana TWO Project

2009-05-28T16:37:00.009+03:00

So you all have seen the first Gymkhana film that was pretty insane. Want some more? Fo'sure!!! But how to one-up the previous film!?!

Ken's got new weapon for the Gymkhana two mayhem. The WRX STI 2009 aka GYM2, built by Crawford Performance.

It's featuring Full Race cage, Recaro Carbon/Kevlar bucket seat, Brembo big brakes, Tein coilover suspension, Crawford Performance SR5 2,65 l Race Engine and tons of STi & Prodrive goodies, like the carbon fibre wing. The Volk TE37 [DC-edition] wheels are wrapped in BF Goodrich G-Force rubbers. The whole lot built in just 43 days!!!

"The best thing is driving the new gymkhana car that Subaru built for me (code name GYM2). It’s incredible…like 10 times better than my original gymkhana STI (GYM1). It’s ridiculously fun…it’s like a video game (only without the “restart” button)."
- Ken Block

The film will feature new surprises (read stunts) and some othet DC sponsored heros, like pro skater Rob Dyrdek. The film is shoot at new secret location.

So, the video is already shot??? "Well, yes…most of it. It was four days of high-speed fun, high stress situations, and massive amounts of BFG rubber ingestion (I was blowing rubber out my nose for three days after). But, what could me more fun than trashing a new race car around an amazing setting?"
- Ken Block

The new film is to launch June 1st 2009. Watch this space!

More info: DC-Shoes Auto site.

Ooh, have you seen the Gymkhana 1 Bonus video!?! Unseen footage of the first film - Whoops...

Pretty crazy stuff, lol

The search for +1000 whp RB26DETT

2009-05-20T11:27:00.007+03:00

Hi chaps! Remeber this beast? (The +1033 hp RB26DETT Skyline from Finland)

So, the owner had some more Dyno sessions. The car did fine, it held the boost time after time, the engine got some cam adjustments done for different torque setups etc.

After few dozen the dyno sessions the engine was opened and analysed for wear & tear. It was fine, everything as it should be.

So the engine is going for some more boost, as the latest dyno figures were disappointing for the owner – you might think, what the hell… Well the figures were just under 1000 Wheel Horsepower, 996,6 whp to be exact. He wants +1000 whp from 2,6 litre engine, hah.

The new plan is to run it at 2.5 - 2.8 bar boost. The previously used 2.3 bar boost killed the Nismo twin plate clutch, a new HKS 3-plate sintered version is swapped for the new challenge. The pressure bearing for that set up is custom made by Valtonen Motorsport.
The previously used Panta fuel was changed to VP Q16 fuel (120 oct).

Other additional goodies are the new carbon doors, boot lid, bonnet, front fenders, front bumper, mask and OEM style rear spoiler. The weight saving is going to be huge.
The new Cusco 1-way diff found it’s place at he front, so did the new 1.5-way LSD at the rear. This should help with the grip problems.

And like any hiperformance car – they should have in car entertainment. Period. The owner choose Alpines finest to keep him happy when the engine shoots it self to the million pieces – nice theory. He's comment was: "This way you’re always happy in you’re Skyline".

Here's the final Dyno sheet & figures. Pretty damn impressive!

Max HP at the wheels!!! (Wheel Horsepower)
733,9 kW (DIN kW) = 996,6 whp (DIN hp) = 982,97 whp (SAE hp).

Max Torque at the wheels
954,9 Nm (DIN Nm) = 703,54 lbf ft (Pound Feet) = 97,25 kgf m (Kilogram Meters).

The search for +1000 whp RB26DETT continues :D

Rallisprint - Nurmijärvi

2009-05-18T22:06:00.007+03:00

Alien2nrs crew went to see some Rally Sprint action last sunday.
The Pakkauspojat Rallisprint was a national race. It was held at Karhunkorpi Industrial area. The track was all tarmac with plenty of chicanes and few long straights to get these beasts going. The organizer was Nurmijärven Urheiluautoilijat (NuUA), great track!

One big thing on Rallying is called "Ralli makkara"

Some action:

There was also some car classics, as this fully rebuild Henri Toivonen replica Porsche. Really sweet!!!

More photos:
http://molsa.pictures.fi/kuvat/Show++++Happenings/Pakkauspojat+rallisprint/

Some more Subaru photos

2009-05-16T23:09:00.002+03:00

Some more:
http://molsa.pictures.fi/kuvat/Cars/Subaru%20Imbreza%20Type-R%20Sti/Summer/

Subaru Club finland "timeattack"

2009-05-16T23:02:00.003+03:00

We were checking Subaru Club Finland "timeattack" evening with Teemu and his Breza..

Few photos here:
http://molsa.pictures.fi/kuvat/Show++++Happenings/Subaru+club+Finland

2009 Tokyo auto saloon

2009-05-16T22:54:00.002+03:00

All photos can be found here now:
http://molsa.pictures.fi/kuvat/Show++++Happenings/2009+Tokyo+Auto+Saloon/

And all other japan tour photos are here: Klick

Top Gear for the win!

2009-05-10T00:23:00.002+03:00

Extreme Ford Fiesta road test

Best car review ever!?!

"The Top Gear boys are deeply offended by a fan letter claiming that they don't review cars properly anymore. To compensate, Jeremy Clarkson takes the new Ford Fiesta for an extraordinary road test including a car chase inside a shopping centre, and a Royal Marine assisted beach assault. Brilliant high quality video from BBC motoring show, Top Gear. Visit http://www.TopGear.com for all the latest news and car reviews."

HKS SQV fitted

2009-04-26T16:45:00.002+03:00

New SQV arrived from RaceBreed.fi and is fitted to Impreza.
Assembly was very easy and it took only 20 minutes including BS
with Domo-kun.
Parts were high quality and all of them fitted perfectly.
Again one good reason to buy genuine parts and not fake ones.

HKS SQV ready to be fitted.

Content of kit.

Removed air bypass hose.

Stock valve removed and air bypass plugged.

Bracket assembly to IC.

Flange fitted to IC.

SQV connected to IC with a flange and joint hose.

Vacuum hose and filter.

Nice and clean package.

Keepin' it Real!

2009-04-24T19:46:00.005+03:00

Hymm... Express Mail from good old US of A.

Jay is the man. Keeps he's rides nice & clean. No short cuts with builds.
He's blog & JDM EGO are my daily fix since day one. There's always something cool to read on he's blog. Peep it out.

To support he's car builds and wise words against fake shit like Rota Wheels, get your gear on: iloveracing.com

It's all about attention to detail. Research & Development.

And if you still don't get it... then this is a must read: fake wheels

Thanks Jay! Muchos respecto SIR!!!

Bee*R – Call of Duty

2009-04-14T14:39:00.009+03:00

My friends from MDS called me bit over month a go to help out. They had a car show coming up in Easter and they didn’t have cars for the stand. So I stepped up the cry – 5 mins after closing the phone I realised I couldn’t take “the same car” in the show 2 years in a row. It needed a new look, something different. Right – the game was on.

New wheels, sourced as second hand. Bargain deal, but they still needed some new twist to stand out. I wanted semi-vip style and rat-look at the same time. Let’s call it Rat-Vip ;)

The new "pots" are 9,5x19 and 10x19 Work Euroline DH’s. Front ET is 0, rear ET -6. The rims were quite new, made in last year. Still wanted to give them a something, so a new paint to match the cars exterior and new ruff styled rim screws or spikes if you will. Now they look mean but classy.

Front lip is 3,5” and Rear lip 4,75” – Nice dish. Team Falken helped out with FK452 tires in 265/30/19 all around.

The new setup needed graphics as well, so I had few late nighters behind the Mac again. I wanted the car to be mean and brutal looking, so I ended up in a urban war theme – Full Metal Jacket.

Attack of the Killer Bee*R

RB26DETT – the weapon of choice

B324R = Urban Assault Weapon, the greatest street terror machine of all time :D

I had 8 other project cars to finish to the show, so my car was the last of them. HC Graphics aka Henri (me) & Casper did it again – totally different look. Not everyone’s cup of tea, but do I really give a shit? Nope.

Hifi update!
Alpine sorted me out with the latsest IVA-D106R media player/head unit, cheers to the new even better tunes!

Ooh, and peep out some pics from the show by Juhis: American Car Show / Tuning Car Show 2009

Thanks for the help again boys!

Bee*R gets full Zaino treatment

2009-04-14T13:56:00.010+03:00

After removing the vinyl graphics from last seasons theme, it was time to give the exterior it’s shine back.

First I removed the graphics… 5 hours later it was ready for good wash with strong car shampoo to remove all that sticky dirt. Zaino Clay Bar (Z-18) is excellent for the asphalt tar stains.

After that we started with Zaino (Z-PC) Fusion Dual Action Paint Cleaner & Swirl Remover. This stage was done by machine.

Masked for machine polishing.

Next stage was done by hand, the Zaino (Z-AIO) ALL-IN-ONE cleaner polisher. It’s really easy to apply and remove.
Then we started the polishing stage. The Zaino (Z-2) PRO Show Car Polish for Clear Coated Car Finish was chosen. Three coats of Z-2 with ZFX Flash Cure Accelerator Additive witch accelerate the drying process.

We alsso sealed each layer of the Z-2 to build as strong and deep shine as possible. The Zaino (Z-6) Ultra Clear Gloss Enhancer Spray and Zaino (Z-8) Grand Finale Spray Seal were used.
To top of the cake the Zaino (Z-CS) Clear Seal was applied, it’s easy to use. Just spray a thin mist on the surface, no wipe. It drys of leaving beautiful shine.

The 11 stage Zaino polishing session was done. It took a bit of time but it was well worht it.

Thanks to Pade, Santtu & Teme for the help.

Electroluminescent graphics!

2009-04-06T00:00:00.005+03:00

Last weekend was the Exciting Car Showdown in Nagoya. The new craze was these electroluminescent vinyl car graphics.

Red Line Oil RX7 had their graphics made by EL Lighting.

Electro Luminescence Car Vinyl at Exciting Car Showdown (1) from Powervehicles.com on Vimeo.

Electro Luminescence Car Vinyl at Exciting Car Showdown (Nagoya) [2] from Powervehicles.com on Vimeo.
I wonder how much they cost... the new craze is here!

More pics of the show at Speedhunters.com by Dino – great to see your quality work at SH ;)

Summer tyres on !!

2009-04-05T22:43:00.003+03:00

Oi! Here´s couple new photos of Teemu´s breza on brand new Buddy Club p1 18" wheels.

Subaru gallery here --> http://molsa.pictures.fi/

The power of Holset – 1033 hp

2009-04-03T23:33:00.013+03:00

Ok chaps,

So we live in Finland. In a land where winter is 8 months of year – it snows even during summer, hah.

During those long snowy winter months we hit our stupid heads together to create something seriously ill shit, like this.

In the belly of this satin black beast lies something truly insane…

How do you get 1033 horsepowers out of Nissan’s RB26DETT engine (yes, 2,6 liters)!?!

"– Well, hit the boost to 2,3 bar and a drop in a pair of Holset HY35 turbos."

To keep things happy inside the new power plant, a counterweighted and balanced R33 GT-R crank is the foundation of the bottom end. Also CP-pistons were added with Eagle H-beam conrods. Still running oem head bolts.
Upstairs has parts like, Tomei Poncams 282 with 12.8mm lift and Tomei cam pulleys. The other belts have Greddy pulleys. The Greddy plenum is feeding air to the head witch is fully ported by JR-Tehokansi. The 1,6 mm head gasket is by Tomei. To feed this beast, a Hestec Ecu is used (Tuned by Seppo Harinen), a heafty loads of boost is offered by Hestec boost controller. To keep juices flowing a set of two Walbro and two Bosch Motorsport 044 fuel pumps are used with 18 mm fuel lines. The Sard fuel rail with Aeromotive’s fuel pressure regulator will keep the 1000 cc MSD injectors happy. Sparks are delivered by Bosch Motorsport 034 ignition coils.

The 100 mm cooler has company of Koyo radiator, other coolers are custom jobbies as well, like the relocated Mocal oil cooler and totally removed/relocated water circulation. Oil and water are pushed with Nismo’s high performance pumps.
To handle all that torque – a 989,6 Nm to be exact, a Nismo Twin Plate clutch is barely taking it – it’s starting to slip so the boost is kept where is it at now.
Exahaust is a custom 4” job. With those monster Holset HY35’s, is a pair of Tial 60 mm wastegates and Tial blow-off valve.

The additional goodies are inside the cockpit. The Defi meters for water temp, intake temp and oil press. Greddy’s for boost, oil press, oil temp and egt. Vems wideband meters for both of the turbos. You might noticed that there were two oil press meters, well the oil press is metered at two different points.

To keep all the power on the track, a set of Mickey Thompson 275/40/17 street radials are used. For the street use (yes, this car has license plates) 275/30/20 TSW’s are under the arches.
Ride height is taken care by K-Sport suspension and the handling is improved by poly bushes all around. Safety cage is an improvement as well. The brakes are under upgrade at the moment – something big with loads of force to stop this beast.

Oh, yes and that Dyno sheet.

All measured with Inertia Dynamometer (at Special Tuning Harinen).

@ 2.3 bar (max 8800 rpm)
• 1033 hp (DIN) [759,77 kW] / 1018.85 hp (SAE) – Panta 115 oct fuel
• 989.6 Nm / 100.88 Kgf / 729.36 lbf

@ 1,95 bar
• 890 hp (DIN) [654.60 kW] / 877.83 hp (SAE) – Shell V-Power pump fuel.
• 820 Nm / 83.59 Kgf / 604.72 lbf

And for those thinking "one lucky dyno queen shoot"... the cars been on the dyno close to 50 runs - more than some drag cars can take. Every time pulling figures like this.

More to come, carbon – alots of carbon!

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Update! (the dyno sheet is from the first runs, running a limiter at < 8000 rpm - now it's past 9000 rpm).

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Subaru Winter Fun

2009-03-12T22:35:00.003+02:00

It was maybe last really good winter day here Finland so we head up with Teemu and his Subaru some snow action.

"roud vas veri sliperi" as Tommi Mäkinen would have said...

R35 GT-R Wagon by Kids Heart

2009-03-08T18:42:00.006+02:00

Nagoya Auto Trend 2009 - Show (aka NAT)

Kids Heart unveiled their latest creation at NAT’s. The M35 Stagea with R35 GT-R front & rear end conversion. The rear doors, quarters and fenders are also slightly flared. I bet Tsuyoshi Tezuka just hit the next gold mine with this conversion. He’s the manager at the Kids Heart which is car dealer in Aichi/Nagoya. Tezuka is the man behind Bee*R's B324R D1GP drifter as well. They have done a lot of conversions like this before, like the official Sileighty, Free Dom, etc.

More pictures of the NAT show.

Bee*R - Vmax magazine feature

2009-03-05T16:42:00.005+02:00

Skyline-klonen
Nej, det er ikke det, du sikkert tror!

Yeah, it's all in Danish. It says something like this: No, It's not what you tought it was. That's how the feature starts in latest Vmax magazine, from Denmark. (Issue #119 April 2009).
Martin Poohamidi aka Pyramiden wrote the feature. Juhis snapped the pics. Thanks for both dudes - great pics & good read.

TEIN – Super Racing R35 GT-R kit

2009-02-27T14:02:00.006+02:00

TEIN just released a new suspension kit to the GT-R fans, as well for the new 370Z / Fairlady Z (Z34).

The R35 GT-R kit: TEIN Super Racing Circuit Master. (Click for full size pic).

The top of the line high performance model was developed with data and technology directly fed back from the racing field. Full-length ride height adjustable with 16 levels of damping force adjustment for both compression and rebound. High spec, high performance shock absorber, compatible for 2 EDFC kits.

Specs for the both kits.

All that is nothing without a good stance

2009-02-21T17:28:00.002+02:00

RimTuck.com is all about database of wheel fitments for various vehicles. It's purpose is to show how different wheel fitment may look, and also aid those in deciding what wheel specifications to choose from for their vehicle.

The site contains aggressive fitments which require excessive camber adjustments, body modifications, stretched tires and any other means to create their specific stance… Let’s check some of set-ups out!

Gallery has a chart to see all the specs & pics.

Mazda RX-7 Year: 2000
Front: 19x9.5 Offset: +18 (tire: 225/35)
Rear: 19x11.0 Offset: +11 (tire: 245/35)

General notes:
- Rear fenders pulled
- Front fenders lipped and heavily modified underneath
- Rear Guards pulled 10mm
- Front Guards rolled and inner guards modified
- Ohlins 'by Panspeed' Coilovers w/adjustable dampers
- SuperNow Camber Pillow Balls Front
- SuperNow Camber Pillow Balls Rear
- Stock calipers
- Member D CUPS of rx7club.com

(T.R.A Kyoto, 6666 Customs: Rocket Bunny - GT-Rodeo Special).
Nissan S13 Year: 1990
Front: 16x9.5 Offset: +11 (tire: 205/45)
Rear: 16x10.0 Offset: +11 (tire: 225/50)

General notes:
- Rocket Bunny fenders
- R33 five-lug hub
- R33 30mm calipers
- R33 oversized Nismo rotors
- Kei Office coilover suspension (front 8kg and rear 6kg), pillow-ball mount
- Owner Kei Miura
- tra-kyoto.com

Nissan S13 Year: 1991
Front: 18x9.0 Offset: +2 (tire: 215/40)
Rear:18x10.0 Offset: -7 (tire: 225/40)

General notes:
- Front camber -5.5 degrees
- Rear camber -7 degrees
- Stance GR coilovers with custom slotted front brackets for additional camber
- Powertrix rear upper control arms
- Megan Racing rear toe links
- Henry Chan of onetongarage.com

Subaru Impreza WRX Year: 2006
Front: 18x10.0 Offset +35 (tire: 255/35)
Rear: 18x10.0 Offset +35 (tire: 255/35)

General notes:
- Camber -3F, -2.5R
- Rolled and slightly pulled fenders
- Rotora 4pot calipers front, stock rear
- Member ommmjido from nasioc.com

Subaru Impreza WRX STI Year: 2001
Front: 18x10.5 Offset: +12 (tire: 255/35)
Rear: 18x10.5 Offset: +12 (tire: 255/35)

General notes:
- Wheels 15mm plus 3mm spacers = 12mm eff. offset
- Custom widened fenders
- Owner Itakichi
- YouTube user: itakichi3
- Blog: http://minkara.carview.co.jp/userid/148527/profile/

Stance is so important that it can either make or break a car’s tasteful appearance whether they got the nicest paint job, nicest body kit, and/or even the nicest wheels. All that is nothing without a good stance. This is a very subjective topic, but I think we can all agree that if the wheels don’t fit right, it just ruins the car’s body flow.

The stance of the car simply consists of two things to work… dump and flush (no relations to toilets.) Lowering a car alone already improves the appearance of the car. It gets rid of that nasty wheel gap that should be left to off-road, dirt vehicles. Flushing the wheels is when you bring the wheels out as far as possible without having the top tire treads past the fender lip. This flushed look helps the body panels to continue the flow down to the wheels. It makes the car look more “whole”.

Of course, stance is a simple concept, but to achieve a good one, it involves quite a bit of homework. Lowering suspensions, camber, wheel size/offset, tire size/stretch, fender roll/pull, and other factors are needed for this to work, but this is another story as it can become very involving. There may also be negative effects such as premature wear of the tire, suspension components, and hazardous driving conditions depending on how extreme the stance is.

“Any car can be made to look real good. All it takes is a good stance.”
- Son Tran (Rimtuck.com)

RimTuck.com urges anyone who think they have good wheel fitment to contribute to the database by adding your wheel fitment setup.

Nissan GT-R vs. Blendtec

2009-02-03T09:56:00.004+02:00

Will It Blend? - Nissan GT-R

"Tom got a new Nissan GT-R, the fastest production car in the world. Now Tom wants to see if his car can compare with the speed of his Blendtec Total Blender."

Corvette - crushed
Porsche - crushed
Ferrari Enzo - crushed

GT-R's are tough as nails!

2009-01-29T18:39:00.006+02:00

GT-R's are still hard core tools these days. But how tough were they 10 years a go!?!

Really tough!!!

Avance 名東 "Yellow Monster" Pro Drag GT-R.

VeilSide BNR32 R-1 Street Drag.

Check out these old videos!

Japan tour photo gallery

2009-01-18T16:02:00.005+02:00

Some of my photos:

More pics at molsa.pictures.fi/

-Juhis-

Alien2nrs in Japan - Ryokan & back home

2009-01-15T13:18:00.008+02:00

For the last night sleep, we choose a Ryokan - Homeikan Morikawa Bekkan, witch is located close to Ueno park.

A Ryokan embodies the very essence of Japan and is surely the accommodation of choice if you wish to personally experience the uniqueness of Japan - the architecture, lifestyle, nature, traditions and culture. A great way to experience the spirit of Japanese customs that have been passed down over many generations.

The Ryokan Homeikan Morikawa offered the classic feel and the Japanese hospitality, the relaxing mineral baths etc. The door even had my name on it.

The rooms were really big and had all that you need.

The traditional Japanese bed, the futon.

UP-Garage souvenirs - Go for green!

The mineral bath was very relaxing. The water was hot and the room was really steamy. After few Biiru's the Finns were right at home.

How cool is this Yukata robe!?!

For relaxing times, make it Kirin time... lol.

This was our last stay in Japan, Ryokan Homeikan - well worth it.

When heading home, we had to leave in style - a ride in Skyline...

... well actually Keisei line Skyliner.

:D

All aboard!

Travel insurance ad.

Time to board the plane.

The Blue Wings - taking us back home.

Alien2nrs in japan - Car shop day 3

2009-01-15T10:12:00.007+02:00

Are you ready for this? The car shop day 3!

Me & Juhis headed to Machida City, located in the western part of the greater metropolis of Tokyo. Home of the greatest tuning shops...

We had to take 5 metros & Trains to get there...

First stop was at Monster Sport.
Very clean & professional shop. Famous of their Suzuki Escudo Pikes Peak car.

This Evo is called Maziora V2 Champ RS - it was also in TAS.

Show room had Evo 6 & Sti.

On the yard was this beautiful Tommi Mäkinen Evo 6.

In the shop they had their Rally Evo...

...lots of Monster parts, Race Engines etc...

Next stop was my favorite - Bee*R (Bee Racing).

The shop.

Toyota Athlete Crown, a D1 car driven by Masayoshi Tokita.

The D1 Crown has a 2JZGTE engine from a Toyota Aristo. The 2JZ is stroked to 3.4L using HKS kit. It has HKS single T04Z turbine kit, Holinger sequential transmission with an ORC clutch and a TRD LSD. The car is pushing around 700hp.

Some customer cars as well, like the R34 Nismo S-tune and R32 GT-R.

Bee*R's famous charged S15...

...SR with Super Charger & Turbo!

D1 B324R, driven by Tsuyoshi Tezuka.

GTROC sticker :)

Yokomo's B324R RC-drifter...

The RC-drifters detail is very accurate. GTROC should be very proud of this!

An other B324R drifter. You can spot the difference between the cars, look at the mirrors ;)

Bee*R B324R type-II, non widebody. Using R34 hood.

With this kit, you can also use OEM R34 bumper.

This BNR32 belongs to certain JGTC driver. +800 bhp!

The apprentice and the Master Imai-san.

Used & Outlet - Wheel Proshop Yokohama Garage-kan was next on the line.

As the name says, it's a shop for used wheels. Representing the quality brands.

The front yard looked very promising...

... and it didn't let us down.

Gram Lights.

Trafficstar Riverside - SFR.

More wheels on the yard...

That's for the wheels for now.

It was time to go where few have gone before.

The street sign giving up some hints.

The Tomei HQ & pro shop.

After the office tour it was time to see the research & development line.

VQ35 cams, heads, ect...

New Evo turbos, custom built by Tomei.

Engine dyno room nr 1. (Tomei has 2 of them).

The production line...

The camshaft master. This man is the only man who makes cams at Tomei.
He's been making them since '68! We saw cams for new Lambos, Nismo, etc.

These Titanium headers where just mockup models :o

Test bench BNR32.

Tons of goodies to ship around the world.

Fairlady 350Z was still sporting the 3.5L engine. Other cars in the same Z masters -series where running the 3,8L. This car was still hard to beat. It's all about the power band - not the horsepower said Tomei.

Last but no least we hit the aftermarket & used parts paradise - The UP-Garage!

Wheels waiting to get checked in.

Toyota Mark II sporting Work Emotion XT7's.

SSR - Star Formula!

Work Meister S1 3P's.

BBS LM's.

OMG - there was 4 halls of wheels!!!

SSR, Rays, Work... you name it - they had it.
All used, good condition. Why don't we have places like this!?!

Second floor was full of aero parts, hoods, wings, bumpers... brands like RalliArt, Mugen, Greddy, Nismo...

Then they had one shop just for the mechanical parts.

Endless brake kit.

Exhausts.

CoilOvers.

BNR32 engine with turbos etc - ¥159.000.

Shop for seats, electronics & other accesories... just mental.

UP-Garage <3

Alien2nrs in Japan - Roppongi

2009-01-14T13:10:00.003+02:00

Tokyo is famous of it's nightlife and Roppongi is the place to go, so we headed out for the night.

Metro to Roppongi.

Spotted R35 GT-R on the way.

Shark in a fish tank...

... next to this interesting big creature.

TGI Firdays offered great meal in a American style.

Gas Panic!

We found this cool robot with a light stick escorting cars by, lol!

Sweet Lexus - Kurihara Taxi.

Roppongi main street.

Teemu was the hero of the night. He ended up with some locals, drinking Sake til 7 am in the morning on a roof top somewhere in Shibuya, whatching sun rise!
It was a good night out :D

Alien2nrs in Japan - Asakusa, Ueno

2009-01-14T11:04:00.009+02:00

Asakusa is known for it's old temples. This traditional area is Tokyo's most famous for the Sensō-ji district, a Buddhist temple dedicated to the bodhisattva Kannon. We had to check it out.

But first we had to get some breakfast – DOUTOR Gourmet Coffee.

This place had really good sandwiches, not to mention a pleasant ambience and, ofcourse, decent coffee.

Front of the shop we spotted this nice WRX Type RA. Souped up with Prodrive gear, like the roof scoop.

Narrow buildings - this is how it's done.

Kitchen store in Ueno - Asakusa dori ave.

Asakusa - few others heading to the the tempel as well...

Purify your hands before the temple.

The Kaminarimon (Thunder Gate), with its giant chōchin, is the outer gate of the famous Sensō-ji.

This place was founded in 628 A.D.

Girls all dressed up - Why? Because every year, Japan celebrates "Coming of Age" day (Seijin no Hi) annually on the second Monday of January. It's the celebrating day if you turn 20 years old that year. It's also a day where every city and town celebrate, it's considered as a National holiday.

Uuh, Gaijins (foreigners) - We were like superstars! Paparazzi's were everywhere, lol.

On the "Coming of Age" girls wear coloured traditional kimono or more specifically, the "hakama". While most men wear suits.

DoCoMo FAIL - not connecting people :D

Spotted this sweet Hatchi-Roku in Asakusa. Genuine RS watanabe wheels, nice!

What about this HotRod? Japan is full of sweet rides.

Suntory BOSS, Café au Lait - ¥100. Good price!

After Asakusa we hitted back to Ueno.

Ueno center, OICITY.

Ueno boys...

ŌEDO Sushi. ¥126 per plate, not bad.

These dudes were keeping the plate lines full.

Hotto-Sake!

Tobikko = Flying fish Roe.

Random tiger found on the streets of Ueno.

Alien2nrs in japan - Shibuya, Akihabara

2009-01-13T15:01:00.008+02:00

Shibuya is a shopping and entertainment district in Tokyo.

About million people goes trough this intersection daily!

When the light turns green...

R34 spotterd on the way to the center.

Center Gai - birthplace of many Japanese fashion trends.

Gundam's everywhere.

Nice Kitty poster... Hello rescue!?!

Pikachu.

The famos Shibuya crossing. On the background is the Shibuya 109, witch is a trend setting fashion complex. Over hundred boutiques on ten floors!

People about to cross the intersection...

Unleash the mayhem :D

On our way to Akihabara the electric city - we spotted this S15 Spec R.

Akaihabara is also the gamers paradise.

More robots.

An other clean S15 followd by tuned Lexus.

Aria Company Lancer was spotted as well.

Next we ordered some Robot food. How to use the machine? Here is how...

Teemu having hes Robot snake soup dinner.

My set was good, Sapporo beer crowning it.

Alien2nrs in japan - Harajuku, Shinjuku

2009-01-13T09:57:00.006+02:00

We had to check out the tourist sights & attractions in Harajuku and Shinjuku.

The clothing alley - Takeshita-dori in Harajuku.

Rabbits...

Clothes for animals as well, just silly.

Hello Kitty - this Kitty White had it's own carriage.

ehkä söpö - funny store name, it translates to finnish as: maybe cute :)

Shinjuku streets.

Domokun corner in Kiddy Land.

Hello Kitty floor in Kiddy Land.

The Harajuku bridge - spot the panda.

A view from the Harajuku bridge. In the horizon is the DoCoMo tower.

Yoyogi Park.

Mid Knight gang.

They had really cool bikes.

Black Shadow gang.

Alien2nrs in Japan - Bosozoku night

2009-01-12T11:39:00.006+02:00

We meet up wit the bunch of drift maniacs in the restaurant called Tony Romas.

Next we hit the stormy weather out. It was freezing cold & dark, but still the locals were gathering and having fun at the parking lot.

Local car clubs meeting at Toyosuna parking lot.

Bosozoku, fantacy cars, vanners, call it what you will - they're crazy.

Here's a vid of them on the highway. LOUD!

Widebody 4-door liner.

Autech S15.

Uras S15.

The Police had a raid - Bosozoku bike gang was near by...

Alien2nrs in Japan - Car shop day 2

2009-01-12T02:28:00.003+02:00

Next was the visit to Kazama-Auto. Yamashita-san was there to show us the goods. Andy helping with translateing some of the stuff.

D1 baby!

Work in progress, just fitted the body work, next was the interior.

Pretty wild aero & nice custom one off Volk wheels.

RC Drifting is getting bigger in Japan. That's why Kazama built their own RC Drift land!

They have a line of top cars & accessory for sale as well.

Sexy Knights RX7.

Yard full of goodies for sale.

Alien2nrs in Japan - Car shop day

2009-01-11T01:56:00.002+02:00

So we went to see Andys & Emilys shop - The Powervehicles.

First it was an 1 h train ride of to Saitama. Nice contry side area up nort of Tokyo.

Emily picked us up in this beast!

Hella flush!

Scooby & Evo.

Make-Up - yellow RB26 powered Silvia.

An other RB26 powered Silvia! It's cool how the engine sticks out.

This is the Mark II, we were running the night before. It has a 1,5JZ engine swap - Nice!
The streets of Tokyo are never the same again! :D

Thanks for the tour Andy & Emily - Domo-Arigato!!!

Alien2nrs in Japan - Tokyo Auto Salon

2009-01-10T03:53:00.019+02:00

Today started with butterflies in my stomach. It was the Tokyo Auto Salon & Import Auto Salon -day!

First we had to get to the event, the Makuhari Messe.

By using this simple metro-map, you're sorted.

Yamanote Line rocks!

From: Ueno -okachimanchi station to kaihimmakuhari station.
First Yamanote Line then Keiyo Line, about 40 min to get there.

Metro is a great place to sleep ;)

Finally here!

Breakfast - ready to hit the show.

Konnichiwa!

Checking the map. A total of 9 halls of cars.

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The Style Wagon Fuji -stand, DJ pushin' some tunes.

The Liberty Walk -stand had Air Ride Lambos, Sick!

After the show, we hooked up with Andy & Emily.

JC & his better half (he's from Autoworks -mag France - live's in Japan).

Allen (from Tomei Powered) & Kent.

Dino Dalle Carbonare & his better half. In the middle is the Canadian mad man :D

We enjoyed the hotel lobbys extra costly drinks, after few we decided to go to down town Tokyo. Ofcourese the transportation was chosen well... Only a Wangan ride would do.

Allen's weapon of choice. Hachi-Roku, with widebody kit & a pretty nice engine.

Andy's & Emily's family saloon. The JZX100 Mark II.

Yeah, it's street legal - fo'shure :D

Street racing is not a crime.

AE86 storming on Wangan. The roar of that engine is just pure pleasure for you're ears.

Tomei Powered vs. Powervehicles JZX100 Mk II

Just a view of Tokyo Bay Bridge & Tokyo Tower etc... Just luvin' it!

It's 11:30 PM (23:00) - a traffic jam in Tokyo...

Alien2nrs in Japan - Tokyo

2009-01-08T16:40:00.004+02:00

We have seen Osaka for now, time to move on. So we grabbed the Shinkansen train to Tokyo.

The service was good, as always. Sapporo beer...

We saw Mt. Fuji

Finally at the Tokyo - Ueno.

Ueno First City Hotel, japanese style rooms :D

Hai!

Lol... it's got a warmer too ;)

Sushi place just cross the street - nice!

We had the chefs special tonight.

We had some Yakitori - Chicken, pork, heart, tail, skin, you name it.

Then off to Akihabara.

Tomorrow is a long day, so gotta get some sleep
- Tokyo Auto Salon 2009, we're ready!

Alien2nrs in Japan - Random madness

2009-01-08T10:06:00.004+02:00

Random madness @ Osaka, just something before Tokyo.

Osaka - Shopping alleys.

Racoon & Teemu...

Hello Kitty Hell - Kitty store's are everywhere!

I <3 Panda

Makksu-san at the tobacco vending machine.

New RC Sports cover car - Bee*R ofcourse!

Well, it's pretty cool that it's also a RC Car of the Year.

We recommend. 130 per dish, some Asahi & you're sorted.

Chefs in action.

Pic your plate from the conveyor belt.

Sake kudasai!

For me 9 dishes was the total, lol - I love Sushi

Osaka streets at night.

Sheratons own mascot. Mr. Children - The Super Exciting Friend.
Japan is full of weird characters like him :D

The breakfast - the most important meal of the day.

Ahh, Japanese style ofcourse.

Updating the blog - Asahi helps a lot ;)

Japan day 4

2009-01-07T15:55:00.012+02:00

Todays to-do list was:

- NHK Tv-station
- Osaka Castle
- And Den Den town electric stores

First visit was to NHK - Osaka Broadcasting Station, Japans biggest TV-station.

The home of Domo-kun.

Live morning show.

Max reading the news in English.

He did well. Can you see his backpack in the pic, lol.

Teemu did the weather broadcast - he failed.

Blue screen testing.

Domo-kun and Domo-kun.

Guys testing their acting talents :) It was on the national morning TV-show for kids...

Then we checked the palace near by NHK, the Osaka Castle.

Sumimasen! Japanese are always bowing, so are we - sumimasen...

The rock walls were enormous. 60m2 & 130 tons.

Emperors' Osaka palace.

The photographing was limited to just a few floors, so no more pics.
Tons of cool Samurai swords, costumes, art etc.

Deep moats to protect the castle.

Japan is well known of its elecrtic stores. Ofcourse we had to go and check it out! So we walked to Den Den Town.

On the way we stopped at the mall, in front we saw this Merc.

During exhausting shopping, it's good to chill and relax.
The malls atmospere was pretty royal.

HyperREV books in the Junkenda book store.

Pretty cool looking pet store.

Dog shaped tree.

Juhis in bike paradise.

De Rosa specials.

Tons of top quality bikes & parts. Great find.

Street view of Den Den town.

The Osaka mega-super-hyper electronic play ground.

Then we found a place called "Kids Land" - yeah...
This place was sick. Floor after floor, stuff you just had to have.

Juhis found a new car... Gunmetal BNR32 Tamiya Collector's Club...
There was 6-floors full of all this stuff. About 150 other GT-R diecast models.

Witch one to chose, Bososoku or the Top Secret!?!

Big enough? HKS BNR32 model.

A few metallic small scale skylines, well about 200 of them!

Gundam's robot store.

Random heavy hitter, GTS25 4-door racer.

Evo with Kansai goodies at Den Den car park cruising.

There were more cars, but not that much light, so no more good pics.

Some random stuff from the Osaka streets. Well it felt real :D

Tomorrow we move to Tokyo -->

Alien2nrs in Japan - transportation

2009-01-07T02:27:00.007+02:00

There's been more transportation in a few days than in a year for us.
Everything works great once you get your self on the map.

Osaka metro in the morning, not too crowded yet.

Randon train action. Hiroshima - Osaka. +330 kms in 90 mininutes.

Alien2nrs in Japan - Hiroshima trip

2009-01-06T13:43:00.013+02:00

To day was trip to Hiroshima. Mainly to see the National Peace Memorial Museum, Atomic Bomb Dome and other sights related to the A-Bomb dropped to Hiroshima. Well it wasn't all about the bomb - We toured around the city and some shops as well. Nice city.

Hikari 455 to Hakata (our stop was Hiroshima).

Shinkansen - Hikari Rail Star to Hiroshima.

From Shin-Osaka to Hiroshima +330 kms, by Hikari train it took 90 minutes, not bad.

View from train to Osaka Airport.

Shopping in train ;)

From Hiroshima station we took tram to A-Bomb hypocenter area, (2 kilometer area that was totally whipped out).

Alien2nrs crew, A-Bomb Dome behind us.

At 8:15 am on August 6, 1945 City of Hiroshima fell victem to the world's first atomic bombing. The city was gone in less than a second, killing instantly more than 10.000 people, totaling the bill up to 140.000 after the radiation, heat wave, blast wave and fire killed the rest of the citys surrounding areas.

Pics fron the Peace Memorial Museum

The "Little Boy" dropped by American air plane Enola Gay. The bomb is about 3 meters long, had 50 kg Uranium 235. The energy of the fission bomb equivalent of 16.000 tons of TNT. The bomb exploded 580 meters above the city.

The heat rays where so violent, that they left shadows permanently on the elements that didn't vanish.

Melted statue and some other remains.

View from the museum to the A-Bomb Dome.

Stairs to the underground Peace Museum of A-Bomb Victims.

Inside the hall remebernce is a panorama that recreates view of the A-Bombed city. The panorama is made out of 140.000 little tiles, the number of people estimated to have died by the end of 1945. Huh, just makes you think - never again.

After the museums it was time for some other sights, like electronic shops.

We saw this super sleek lowrider motorbike with stereos, lol.

Old Mazda Coupe.

Wacom <3

Alien2nrs in Japan - Osaka 2nd day

2009-01-05T18:04:00.010+02:00

After Endless-R it was back to Osaka. Then the next was trip to Global-Auto.

Some super clean cars in house, like the Autech Stagea RS260 puhshing +700 bhp, HKS V-Cam syestem, T51R... One off wide body NSX... Spoon Demo S2000 hard top. Huh, some serious rides.

Spoon Sports S2000 street warrior.

Mr. Matsumoto was very kind and showed us all cars he had. He was sorry that "he didn't have anythin special in" at the moment. - Yeah right.

+800 bhp stroker kitted V-Spec BNR34, +700 bhp Autech RS260 Stagea, RE-Amemiya FD RX-7, Evo's, Supra's, NSX's, tuned single turbo Skyline GT-R's, Trial Tuning demo cars, etc. This place was off the hook.

Matsumoto-san, thank you!

Alien2nrs in Japan - Osaka/Kobe 2nd day

2009-01-05T13:17:00.004+02:00

Early wake up & break fast. I called Rick at Endless-R, "dude - We're coming over - OK!". Rick was some where around Tokyo or something like that, but he hooked us up anyway - great!

First by to metro to Shin-Osaka, then Shinkansen (bullet train) to Kobe, then an other metro to Endless-R.

The home of power = Endless-R - total tune & performance.

Some used goodies on their store.

White carbon daddy next to Rain's silver R32, witch is probably the best GT-R in the world!

R35 GT-R Brembo's, full Endless-R engine, carbon & more carbon ;) Just sick!
- Rain you're one lucky bastard, LOL.

Isono-san showing us the secrets of the RH9 (9.874 sec @ 1/4 mile) R32 GT-R drag monster.

Domo-arigato to Sugino-san, Isono-san, Rick & Endless-R crew!!!
________

Back at Shin-Osaka station, I found this mag.

Uuh, All carbon R35 GT-R.

More pics later... ait!

Alien2nrs in Japan - Osaka 1st day

2009-01-04T16:40:00.003+02:00

Finally in Osaka. Booked in to our hotel, We decided to ride over that super jetlag.
Argggh! We've been up more than 26 h straight.

Neon show is on... everywhere.

Some dude with VeilSide/custom kitted 350Z... we saw like 30 of these just in few hours.

View from our hotel window :D

Well, I got to hit the bed, more stuff tomorrow. Good night!

Alien2nrs in Japan - NGO airport

2009-01-04T12:18:00.003+02:00

10 h plain ride, bad Jetlag, yeah! We,re in Japan!

Alien tuners have landed... Now let's find our way to Nagoya.
Nice metro map ;)

Once in Nagoya, we had to sort our Japan Rail Passes out.
The vouchers were changed for these.
Unlimited travel for Shinkansen & JR trains, etc. – nice!

After seeing the city breefly, we decided to book our selves to our Osaka Hotel.

Hikari 373 – Okayama... Kyoto, Shin-Osaka... Let's take that one. Reserved seats of course.

70 mins from Nagoya to Shin-Osaka. Bullet trains are fast as hell... +400 km/h!

Then 2 more metros and we hit our destination – Osaka Sheraton Miyako Hotel.

Alien2nrs goes Japan - HEL airport

2009-01-03T16:18:00.005+02:00

OK, so we're here!

Ready to go...

10h flight to Nagoya, Japan.

Kuvauskalustoa Japania varten

2009-01-01T19:45:00.004+02:00

-Canon 40D+akkukahva
-Canon G10
-Canon G7 (ei kuvassa, kuvat otettu sillä)
-Canon mvx35i videokamera
-Canon 70-200 4L
-Canon 16-35 2.8L
-Canon 15mm Fisheye
-Canon 580ex salama
-Sigma 500super salama
-Manfrotto 190MF4 hiilikuituinen 3-jalka
-Manfrotto 680B monopod
-Manfrotto 486RC2 kuulapää
yms.. pikkusälää.....

Alien2nrs:n Jpanin reissua tukee:

Munchen-Germany

2008-12-29T22:45:00.003+02:00

Parit kuvat Munchenin reissusta.

Mersun päämaja.. kiva näyteikkuna

SLR...sweet

AMG...

BMW:N päämaja. Harmi että BMW ja Mersu olivat kiinni jolun aikana niin ei päässyt tutustumaan tarkempaan.

Bemareita ja Porkkeja riitti katukuvassa.

Saksalaista insinööritaitoa parhaimmillaan.

Näkymiä olympiatornista

Alien2nrs goes Japan

2008-12-20T11:58:00.002+02:00

Noniin pitkään valmisteltu retki rupeaa olemaan lähellä. Alien2nrs poppoo lähtee zekkaamaan Japanin kuumimmat kärryt ja tutustumaan uuteen kulttuuriin.

Taustatyönä on tullut luettua muutamia kirjoja:

Sekä tutkittu hieman karttaa:

Sekä transportaatio väline valittu:

Alien2nrs blogia kannattaa seurata reisun aikana usein sillä pyrimme joka ilta lisäämään reissuraporttia ja muutamia kuvia tänne.

Tunerseja reissulla tukee:

Bee*R D1 Version Yokomo RC-Drifter

2008-12-19T09:46:00.013+02:00

Yokomo on julkaissut uuden auton RC-Drifereiden mallistoon.

Auto on kopio tästä Bee*R B324R:stä, joka on kyntänyt oikeita D1 drifting areenoita.

Auto tuli Japanissa myyntiin pieninä erinä. Se nähdäänkin varmasti euroopassa myynissä vasta reilusti vuodenvaihteen jälkeen.
Varmasti edullisin AITO Bee*R markkinoilla ;)

Little Boss & Drifter fleet ;)

Big Boss Imai-san & Drifter fleet

More models: Yokomo

Team Yokomo in action

Valokuvasivusto

2008-12-16T08:58:00.004+02:00

Alien2nrs yhteistyökumpppani Nebula tarjoaa myös kuvat.fi palvelua.

Kuvat.fi on palvelu Sinulle, joka tarvitset paljon kotisivutilaa esimerkiksi omille digikuvillesi ja videoillesi verkossa. Palveluun kuuluu automaattisesti toimiva kuvagalleria, jonka käyttö on todella helppoa. Siirrät vain valokuvasi kotihakemistoon ja galleria on valmis!
Voit myös järjestellä kuvia ja videoita useisiin kansioihin, kirjoittaa niihin liittyviä tarinoita sekä hallita galleriaasi helppokäyttöisellä suomenkielisellä hallintasivustolla. Web-selain ja toimiva internet-yhteys riittää käyttään

Jokunen aika sitten palvelusta julkaistiin versio 2.0 ja se sai uusi ominaisuuksi mm. kuvien pistettyämisen tähdillä sekä kuvien kommennnointi mahdollisuuden. Itse päätin ottaa käyttöön palvelun koska omia valkokuvia on hajautetusti ollut vähän siellä ja täällä joten ehkä nyt olisi aika kasata ne yksien sivujen alle.

Sivujen käyttäminen ja kuvien lataaminen on todella helppoa ja sivujen ominaisuuksia ja ulkoasua voi muuttaa helposti mieleisekseen. Alien2nrs suosittelee!!!

molsa.pictures.fi

Defi style mittaritesti

2008-12-11T22:49:00.006+02:00

Lisämittarit

” Mittauslaite (mittausväline) on laite, jolla mittauksen tulokset kiinnostavista suureista saadaan esille. Mittauksessa verrataan fyysisiä arvoja reaalimaailman kohteisiin ja tapahtumiin. Pysyviä vakiokohteita ja tapahtumia käytetään yksikköinä ja mittaustulos annetaan arvona, joka on mitattavan kohteen ja vertailuyksikön suhde.”

Tällaisen määritelmän mittarista antaa wikipedia. Miksi autoon sitten pitää lisätä mittareita ? Varsinkin kun puhutaan vanhemmista perusmallisista autoista joista viritellään moottoria, tai jopa muutetaan vapaastihengitävä ahdetuksi. Ei mittariston antama informaatio ole riittävä. Tämä tietenkin tarkoittaa sitä että mittareita pitää osata seurata ja toimia niiden antaman infon mukaisesti.

Perinteikäs Amerikkalainen Autometer on ollut ”se paras” valmistaja. Ison veden toisella puolella on kuitenkin asiat (jälleen kerran) toisin. Japanilaisen Nippon Seiki yhtiön Defi brändi on import piireissä se ainut ja oikea merkki. Suurin ero näiden kahden valmistajan välillä on ollut toimintaperiaate. Siinä missä Autometer myy kisakokemuksella ja perinteikkäällä USA:laisella designellä, Defi vastaa täysin elektronisilla mittareilla ja nykyaikaisella ulkoasulla.

Defi on tunnettu todella hyvästä laadustaan ja tarkkuudestaan ja vastaavasti myös korkeasta hinnastaan. Halvalla ei saa hyvää, kuuluu vanha sananlasku…. Monet yritykset ovat ruvenneet valmistamaan elektronisia ”Defi style” mittareita ja kilpailevat yli puolta halvemmalla hinnalla.

Saimme testiin Lohjalaiselta Pepantuonti ( www.pepantuonti.fi ) yritykseltä testiin 3-mittarin sarjan ”Defi style” mittareita. Testattavana oli ahtopaine, seossuhde sekä pakolämpötilamittari. Valikoimista löytyy myös öljyn sekä veden lämpötilamittarit sekä öljynpaine. Kyseiset 3 mittaria valittiin testiin koska testiautosta löytyy ne aidot Defi mittarit joihin vertailu suoritettiin.

ENSIVAIKUTELMA

Mittarit olivat pakattu täysin mustiin laatikoihin joissa oli vain tarra kertomassa mikä mikin mittari oli. Jokainen paketti pitää sisällään 60mm halkaisijalla olevan ns. blackface mittarin, asennusjalan, häikäisysuojan sekä johdot ja ohjeet mittarin asentamiseen. Ohjeet ovat kiinalaiseen tapaan lyhyet ja ytimekkään, mutta kuitenkin tarpeeksi selvät. Ensimmäisenä huomi kiinnittyi painoon, mittarit ovat todella kevyitä ja asennus syvyydeksi luvataan peräti vain 30mm!! Muita ominaisuuksia ovat kaksi taustavalo vaihtoehtoa, Amber tai White sekä hälytys toiminto äänisummerin ja merkkivalon voimin kun asetettu raja-arvo ylittyy.

”Defi style” mittarit ovat ns. standalone mallia eli ne toimivat itseksensä. Aitoja Defejä on kahta eri mallia standalone sekä suositumpaa Link-sarjaa jossa mittarit kiinnitetään keskusyksikön kautta joka ohjaa ”pelkkiä” näyttöjä. Link-sarjan etuna on todella helppo johdotus, koska keskusyksikön voi sijoittaa sopivaan piiloon ja vetää yhdellä johdolla tiedot kaikille mittareille. Defi kutsuu tätä tekniikka ”Daisy-Chain” ketjuttamiseksi.

ASENNUS

Kytkettäessä mittareita ei riitä että kytkee plussan ja miinuksen. Lisäksi tarvitaan jompikumpi taustavalon piuhoista. Taustavalot voi kytkeä myös niin että esimerkiksi päiväsaikaan mittarit ovat vaaleita ja illalla jolloin ajovalot on päällä mittarit palavat punaisina. Suomessahan tosin käytetään ajovaloja päivällä ja illalla, mutta tämän voi toteuttaa esimerkiksi erillisellä kytkimellä.

Seossuhdemittarissa silmään pisti ohjeet jossa neuvottiin pelkästään ryöstämään lambda tieto eculta.

Mittareiden mukan toimitaan kaikki tarpeellinen asennusta varten. Johdot on varustettu 2-3 napaisilla liittimillä jotka vain työnnetään mittariin kiinni. Liittimet ovat hiukan jäykkiä asentaa ja välillä joutui käyttämään reilustikkin voimaa että sai liittimet kiinni. Defi Style mittareiden ainut "Daisy-chain" ominaisuus on että virrat voi kierrättää mittarista toiseen mikä onkin johdotusta helpottava asia.

TOIMINTA

Mittarit tekevät virrat kytkettäessä self testin jossa viisarit käyvät kokoaseteikon läpi sekä merkkisummeri piippaa koko toiminnon ajan. Varoitussummeri onkin kyseisten mittareiden kompastuskivi, tai ainakin silloin kuin auto on ns. jokapäiväisessä ajossa. Merkkisummeria ei nimittäin saa pysyvästi pois päältä vaan jokakerta kuin kääntää virrat päälle tekee mittarit aloituseremoniat ja mittarit huutavat kohtuuttoman kovalla äänellä.

Tässä video avaustoiminnosta:

Äänisummerin saa pois päältä painamalla mittarissa olevaa nappia virtojen kytkemis hetkellä, mutta tämä vaikuttaa vain siihen mittariin mistä nappia painat sekä on voimassa vain sihen asti kun katkaiset taas seuraavan kerran virrat.

Toinen huomioseikka on stepper motorin ääni joka eroaa selvästi defin täysin äänettömästä. Tällähän ei ole käytännössä mitään merkitystä. Eron huomaa vain jos auto ei ole käynnissä ja silloinin vain tuon avausseremonian aikana.

Tarkkuus on mittareissa kohdillaan, ainakin alkuperäisiin Defeihin verrattuna. Lukemat ovat 1:1 kaikissa tilanteissa eli tässä asiassa ollaan kyllä onnistuttu. Ahtommittarin neula liikkuu jouhevasti eikä takertelee missään tilanteissa.

Vaalea taustavaloa käytettäessä mittareita on suhteellisen helppo lukea kirkkaalla auringonpaisteellakin. Tosin Edelleen tuo blackface ominaisuus veroittaa selkeyttä verrattuna kirkaslasisiin. Pimeällä mittarit eivät ole liiankirkkaita ja selkeys on todella hyvä.

+ Hinta
+ häikäisysuoja paketissa mukana
+ tarkkus

- Äänisummeri
- hieman heppoiset liittimet (vrt Defi laatuun)
- käyttöohjeet ohjeet
- "käyttöliittymä"

Summasummarum:

Alkuperäisissä Defeissä on edelleen ominaisuuksia missä saa rahoilleen vastinetta. Testiautossa pysyy kyllä jatkossa aidot Defit ja kopiot lähtevät etsimään kotia toisista projekteista . "kopiot" ovat kuitenkin hyvä vaihtoehto edullisia elektronisia mittareita etsiville ja yllättivät positiivisesti tarkkuudellaan sekä selkeälukuisuudellaan. Suurimmat kompastuskivet ovat käyttöliitymässä sekä summerissa joka häiritsi allekirjoittanutta suuresti

Niin ja siis tässä testissä on verrattu pelkästään noihin aitoihin Defeihin eli plussat ja miinukset siltäpohjalta.

Kuvia mittareista: TÄÄLLÄ

Random video

2008-12-04T12:35:00.002+02:00

Bee*R - Redline magazine feature

2008-11-27T12:45:00.005+02:00

No niin. Nyt on sitten ensimmäinen Suomalainen autokin saatu esiteltyä kansainvälisessä Redline Mag:issä! (kolmas auto skandinaviasta). Lehti on yksi maailman suurimpia (ellei suurin jopa) rakenneltujen autojen esittelyyn erikoistuneista julkaisuista.

Juhis toimi kuvaajana juttuun, joten propsit menee ansaitusti hänelle!
Jutun kirjoitti lehden oma toimittaja Steve Neophytou aka Stav.

Tarkkaile lehtihyllyistä tällaista kantta. Lehden mukana tulee gimmikinä "multi tool" / pullonavain.

Cheers to: Stav & Renton @ Redline ;)

KalisConcept Vol. 5 out now!

2008-11-26T12:52:00.011+02:00

KalisConcept Vol. 5 putkahti juuri postiluukusta.

Kalakukkolandian uusin tuotos on KalisConcept DVD -sarjan viides versio ja kulkee nimellä "The Bootleg Boost". Nimi johotunee materiaalin sisällöstä. Tämä DVD ei tule myyntiin - hieman sääli, sillä reilun tunnin kooste tarjoilee tämän vuoden parasta liikkuvan kuvan materiaalia. Japelle 10 pistettä ja papukaijamerkki.

Bonus matskuna stickerit. Ne joilta nämä löytyy auton laseista kuuluvat parhaaseen A-ryhmään ;)

Tykkiä matskua, +300 km/h, kumi palaa ja sitä palaa paljon! Kelkkoja, prätkiä, rataa ja tapahtumia. Tehoa ja tyyliä – hyvät fiilikset musa valinoista.

Download intro [DivX 12,5 Mt]: KalisConcept vol. 5
(For Promotional Use Only).

www.KalisConcept.com

carnewsfreaks

2008-11-25T12:30:00.003+02:00

Carfreaks-yhteisön uusin tuotos on sivusto nimeltään carnewsfreaks joka kerää uusimpia autouutisia eri lähteistä saman sivuston alle.

We have put our new car news site up for public beta, so go and check it out. Site gathers all the major news sites feeds into one easy to follow page. Many new features are already in development, but we decided to let it our already in this early phase, in true Web 2.0 spirit. Site includes language versions with local feeds, so if you notice that your favorite localized feed is not showing give us feedback and well add it there.

So enjoy your daily car news dose from this net carnewsfreaks.net site.

Carfreaks sivusto on ehdottomasti yksi suomen ja jopa maailman hienoimmista ja tyylikkäimmistä sivuista käykää zekkaamassa myös se, 2nrs suosittelee !!

http://carnewsfreaks.net/

http://carfreaks.net

misc photos..

2008-11-16T17:34:00.001+02:00

Parit vanhemmat kuvat arkistoista tähän väliin....

Silver BNR32

2008-11-16T14:28:00.002+02:00

Parit kuvatukset kaverin juuri valmistuneesta GT-R:stä:

Endless-R blogrolliin

2008-11-14T20:29:00.011+02:00

Rick Endless-R viripajalta on pistänyt pystyyn blogin. Siellä seuraillaan pajan uusimpia luomuksia. Tottakai mukaan mahtuu muutama vanhempikin demo-peli.

Tässä muutamia poimintoja:

Endless-R:n piha, täynnä toinen toistaan kovempia kärryjä.

Ensikauden uusin ratatykki Time Attack kahinoihin – "Circuit-R".

HKS:n V-Cam hoitelee vääntöa ja kierrosaluetta koneelle, 2 x 3240 ahtimet takaavat puhinaa.

Pajan uusin Drag-demo auto on R32 GT-R. "Shake Down" ajo tuotti suht miehekkäät lukemat - 10.1 vartilla. Auto on firman pomon Sugino-san:in henk koht Street Drag -luokan auto.
1,45 sec ajetut 60 jalkaset kertoo potenttiaalista.

Kone on HKS:n 2.8 l Hi-Deck.

Ahtimena puhaltelee Trust T88-38GK (22cm) turbo sarja.

Kabiinin puolelta löytyy HKS:n Camp2-mittarit.

D2 motor works R34 GT-R, auto kilpailee 9,5 sec. varttimaili sarjassa.

Lisää: Endless-R Blogista.

Ken Block goes Gymkhana

2008-11-12T23:32:00.004+02:00

Vähän kuin auto-slalom, mutta ihan uudella levelillä! :D

Aika magee video, kyllä skeittari poika osaa ajaakin...

Hyvin pyörii...

Syyskuvia

2008-11-05T20:34:00.004+02:00

SEMA show 4.–7.11.08 (pt 1.)

2008-11-04T13:05:00.015+02:00

Las Vegas kerää tänäkin vuonna taas uusimmat Aftermarket-tuotteet yhden katon alle. Specialty Equipment Market Association, eli SEMA kerää vuosittain n 120.000 käviää yli 100 maasta, joista kaikki ovat vain alan edustajia. Messut ovat siis vain ammattialalla / tuoteteollisuudessa toimiville, eikä normaali yleisölle ole tarjolla lippuja näille messuille. Tässä muutamia uusimpia tyylisuuntia.

GT-RR:n demo-autot matkalla SEMA:an.

Midnight Purple R35 GT-R, Powerhouse Amuse:n ja Mine's:in carbon palikkaa yms...

Toyo:n demo R35 GT-R. GT-RR:n, eli Bullet Proofin / Bespoke Venturesin Benin käsialaa. Sama kaveri siis pyörittää GT-RR:ää ja Top Secret USA:aa yms.
Palikkaa on tässäkin melkoisesti - Amuse, Zele, Mine's MCR, Bride, Top Secret...

Kummassakin autossa Mana-P:n suunnittelemat grafiikat. Manabu Suzukion suht tunnettu kaveri ainakin Japanin Drifting piireissä.

Jay JDMEGO:sta oli saannut nämä kuvat tuoreeltaan blogiinsa.

Tanabe, Cusco, Zele, Sun Automobile ja HighEnd-autokerhojen kalusto näyttää tältä.

Lisää kuvia myöhemmin...

Temen subaru photoshoot part2

2008-10-23T23:33:00.002+03:00

Elikkäs tässä loput kuvat.