shiryo

Who has my old car? Anyone know if this thing is alive anymore? I miss it so much.

Thanks mate. That I'm not too sure, I know he browses the boards from time to time but don't think he's signed up.

Cheers bud. Unfortunately I'm getting out of the car game for at least the next 3-5 years. Just dropped all my savings on a house deposit, so going to be a sensible kid for a while.

Thanks for the kind words Rob. That scene was done on a Tuesday night at about 1am, so it was practically dead then. In sad news, car is now sold and on it's long journey interstate. God speed, ShiroBozu, God speed.... End of an era.

Thanks mate, yup - Sony Vegas. Good program, was just difficult to wrap my head around because first time using it.

On my 2nd month now without the terrible things Reed! Feeling much better too!

thanks alot guys!

YAY VIDEO TIME! I've never filmed anything before or tried my hand at editing so I found this rather difficult to do. Didn't have any real fancy equipment to do this: just plenty of love and Red Bull. Hopefully you think it's okay. :) http://vimeo.com/87976548

any way to update the forum's code to enable new vimeo embed links etc? - edit - don't worry, worked out an alternate code.

Mitch, didn't realise you had a build thread on here dude! Car is coming along great dude, been nice transformation since you first picked her up.

So it turns out my mate Jono has gone completely AWOL on the video project. I'm by no means skilled in filming or editing but I figure I might as well have a crack at it, so I've officially started that this weekend. Hopefully will have it done soon enough as I've been giving it a few hours of my time each night. I literally have no idea what I'm doing whatsoever, but I think it's coming along somewhat ok right now. A couple of weeks back driving to work I heard a loud crack from the front end of the car. Wheel bearings had shattered completely haha. I'm surprised I managed to get to work safely at all. My brakes have been long overdue for attention too, so I figured I might as well do those seeing as the car is for sale. The old girl now has new: - front rotors - front pads - front wheel bearings - front seals Of course, things usually happen in 3's, so of course my steering idler arm bush completely flogged out. This left me with a 90degree turn either way of deadzone. Another terrifying experience really. I've always been about reliability and maintenance before modifcations and aesthetics, it'll always take priority. So today, I purchased these: - new steering idler arm - new inner tie rods I'll slap these in tomorrow and get the car re-aligned once again and she'll handle like magic once more. After that's done, pretty much everything in the front end would have been replaced except the swaybar link bushes, which are fine. Btw, making this video is making me sad and I don't want to sell her. Stupid video. Thanks guys.

My favourite car from Classic Japan dude. Looks incredible.

Jurn I'm glad you like my mirrors, cheers. I bought mine from Yahoo Auctions Japan. Give that a go, it's my favourite place to get car related goodies.

Thanks man! Glad you like it. :laff:

Not at all? My mate who was meant to be doing it for me seems to have no interest in completing it now. Looks like I'll be doing it instead, except I suck at it.

Heard this is happening this Thursday?

Thanks Charles, might be going to a new home this weekend! :( I only hope it goes to someone who'll love it as much as I have.

Probably right Reed haha. Car is still in my possession, my mate still hasn't finished editing the video as he's been crazy busy. I'm impatient, so for a laugh I did this last night to keep me entertained until the full thing is complete. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUL_t3xfOr8&feature=youtu.be

MASSIVE PRICE DROP. $10G FLAT NO WHEELS, ITB'S OR GAUGE SETUP

I've listed the car up in the appropriate section on the forum, but for those who might miss it there, I'll mention it in here too. Car is now up for sale unfortunately, I need to clear some debts and having 2 cars isn't helping me financially in any way. Now listed on carsales too: http://www.carsales....0/?Cr=3&sdmvc=1 If mods don't approve of this let me know, thanks.

Thanks for the kind words Simon! As for my "slap together" statement, I merely say it because it hasn't undergone my OCD treatment I give my other car haha. Hopefully get some more photos this weekend if weather is decent too. It was an honour to be nominated and put in the running for car of the year, so thanks to everyone who voted my way, means a great deal!

Oh happppyyyy dayyysssss....

Marcus, thank you so much for your kind words it's very humbling mate. Video has been delayed due to other commitments however should hopefully be done in January. Thought I may as well post the video someone has edited of Classic Japan up. Whoever filmed it did a few shots of my rolla which was cool. Thanks again.

mk3's look the part on it dude.

I imagine the wheel bearings wouldn't be very happy after a while with 10s and huge negative offsets.