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Diamond Deuce

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DaveT
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I was at the new Performance Improvements Etobicoke location last night conversing with Rob about future issues of their magazine (and my involvement) when Jeff Norwell’s Diamond Deuce came up.

To be able to transfer an idea to paper, and then reality, with such precision is something I really wish I was capable of.

I suppose there is no reason why I couldn’t try and learn though?



Just a quick post today as I’ve been up since 5am and my chances of making a catastrophic typo increase by the letter.

Go click around Jeff’s blog (Drawn & Quartered) if you want to read more about the Diamond Duece.

Currently in Denver, next stop Orange County, and then eventually San Francisco.

Soupra

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DaveT
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While pulling together yesterdays post I came across this Supra that I felt was deserving of a post all it’s own.

It’s a single turbo MKIV from Scotland that is currently sitting on BC Racing coils and rolling on 18×9.5 and 18×11 Work Meisters.

I am a huge fan of the fact the owner didn’t paint it some loud color, add a body kit, or go crazy with the wheels but what really captured me was this cars interior.

It is the icing on the cake and had I posted it yesterday I wouldn’t have been able to share it.

I am now officially more a fan of these cars without factory spoilers than with
The owner plans to get the front plate holes shaved next week to go plateless up front
Diffusers can often overpower a rear end but this Garage Whifbitz one looks great
The chili red guts... incredible.

This car has been featured in Banzai Magazine and the most recent thread about it can be found here.

Sadly no current pics from a few steps back.

Theme Tuesdays: Dat Ass Part 3

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DaveT
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On Sunday I saw something that made me think I should do another ‘Dat Ass’ Theme Tuesday post and, foolishly, I didn’t save it in the hopes I would remember it when the time came to put the post together.

No such luck.

However searching for it yielded the results below so things could be worse.

Classic flavour to start things off
For those who prefer a little more meat
Lowrider ass shot yields as a search term a lot more than just cars
Mercy, mercy me, that Murcielago
Pantera's are amazing.
Mayday has become one of my favourite blogs over the past few months
Badass Celica
FD <3
Using all of those over fenders
Damn fine looking Genesis
RWB rear via Solo
Also via Go With Solo
Bonita, Bonita, Bonita
Damn beautiful shot
More Low?
Sure no problem
G' G35
CIB has great photographers
Alright you twisted my arm here is some ass on ass

If I did a post of only photos like the one above I bet it would be ridiculously popular…

Featured Ride: Neil’s MKV

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DaveT
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When I met Neil for the first time at the local skatepark here in Mississauga he had just sold his supercharged e36 and picked up this black MKV.

My memory isn’t quite what it used to be but I seem to recall him saying something about not getting too crazy with this car and only wanting to change a couple things here and there to make it more enjoyable to drive when he is back home between semesters of school in England.

Of course we all know how that goes, a moderate drop leads to a bigger drop, one set of wheels leads to another, and before you know it your car looks sicker than ever and your bank account hovers around zero.


For Neil the progression down the rabbit hole was fairly quick, after a short stint static on Alphards he wanted to go lower so out went the coils and in went an Air Lift XL setup along with a frame notch done by Chop Shop.

Air gave Neil the ability to ride low and park lower and never one to ride too high most of the shots in this feature are actually closer to ride height than they are park height.


For wheels Neil chose a favourite of his from his past build, MAE Monoblocks, which are sized at 18 x 8.5 (et32) and wrapped in 215/35/18 tires.

That sizing allows him to tuck the front while staying flush in the rear, the best of both words.



A badgless grill, shaved hood notch, and projector fog lights clean up the front and an R32 bumper with matching exhaust bring up the rear.

At the opposite end of that exhaust setup is a Miltek down pipe that’s joined by an APR Carbonio intake, and a stage 2 APR flash ensures those modification play nice.


Inside things are pretty simple, boost and air pressure gauges are mounted on the dash above OEM wood trim, and a euro CD holder keeps the tunes on deck.

The fact that Neil was able to put together a car of this caliber without ever spending long periods of time with it is fairly remarkable and I’m curious where it will go once he is back in Canada for good.

That is of course unless his new found passion for photography (you can check out his latest work here on flickr), and appetite for two wheeled toys don’t take him in another direction entirely…

Modification List

Engine:

  • APR stage 2 flash
  • APR Carbonio intake
  • GHL 3″ R32 style exhaust with high flow cat and 3″ Miltek downpipe

Suspension:

  • Airlift xl kit
  • C notch done by Chop Shop
  • 7 button mechanical switch set up

Wheels

  • 18″ x 8.5 et 32 MAE Monoblocks all around
  • Falken 452 tires 215/35/18

Exterior:

  • Badge-less GTI grill
  • Hood notch fill done by Chop Shop
  • R32 rear bumper
  • VW projector fogs with 6000k Hid

Interior

  • Dash mounted boost and air gauges
  • VW woodgrain trim
  • APR Carbonio intake

Photo Credit: Neil Kates

WTF Friday: Back To The Future

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DaveT
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On the silver screen DeLoreans (Doc Brown’s anyway) are a mechanical marvel worth turning into a time machine powered by stolen plutonium.

In reality by the time they finished jumping through all the hoops required to go from idea to production vehicle they ended up as stainless steel disappointments.

Don’t get me wrong I like DeLoreans, and the crazy story behind the companies rise fall and rise, but they really deserved something more impressive under the hood (..err boot?) to back up their looks.

138-hp does not a super car make and it was a far cry away from the 200hp John DeLorean originally envisioned powering the car.

Over the years people have tried to fix this problem with turbos and various other motor transplants but this is the first (and perhaps only) time someone tried to fix this cars problem of less than swift forward motion with a rotary mill.

A Mazda 20B motor to be exact lifted from the Mazda Eunos Cosmo. This swap bumped up the power to 300hp and 297 foot pounds of torque and since DMC-12s are said to weigh about 2800lbs from a performance aspect this swap makes fairly logical sense.

From a purists stand point it doesn’t really make a lick of sense and I doubt any mechanic would jump at the chance to work on this car since in additon to the Rotarty swap the original transmission was scrapped and replaced with a 1995 Porsche Carrera unit.


The Eunos half digital/half analog dash also made the trip Back To The Future.

A hilariously dated video of the car from six(!) years ago is below:

Mazda tri-rotor powered Delorean DMC12

A bit more info about the car is here.

Oh and if you are curious about the paint a few DeLoreans did actually get painted shortly after leaving the factory while a few left gold.

Needs more Mr Fusion.

Site Updates

I will be in California from April 6th to the 12th doing the touristy thing with the better half. We will be driving from SF to LA so if there is anything particular I should know going on between those dates (other than Formula D which I can’t make it to) let me know.

There should also be a feature up Monday.

Flashback Fridays

Speaking of DeLoreans I am still looking for this car.

If it didn’t skip to a different time someone should be able to find it…

Classically Trained

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DaveT
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There isn’t anything wrong with a simple clean e36, and this is a simple clean e36 I’ve been meaning to share  for awhile.

Posted online in January I’ve found myself looking at these pictures time and time again (thanks to never closing the tab) and admiring the owners taste in modifications.

The owner ended up bring the front down a touch more but honestly it could have stayed like this
The wheels are Dinan's made by Fiske
Love the blacked out roundel... attention to details
The black roof also helps bring things together
End it with a roller

The pictures taken by Tristan Shulz don’t hurt this cars case either.

Clean cars are still around…

Family Values

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DaveT
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As I’m sure many of you know I put off the Turbo Dodge Theme Tuesday for as long as possible because it was hard to pull together and I wasn’t sure the juice was worth the squeeze.

However had I known that posting a few snail equipped Mopars would lead to my first introduction to this Stingray I would have done it a hell of a lot sooner.

Before starting the rebuild of this ’72 Corvette with his father Steve Grybel commissioned his friend Chris at Design 165.com to do a few renderings of the projected final product.

Chris just so happens to own a turbo Dodge and left a comment here that lead me to his blog containing said renderings.



As you can imagine after seeing the renderings I was more than a little interested in what the final product would look like and after learning the car debuting at Detroit Autorama I set out looking for photos a week or two after the event.

The first decent shot I found I posted on the fanpage and as luck would have it a few people recognized the car and pointed me to Steve who sent a link to the build thread.

I’m not entirely sure how I missed this thread on a forum in active on, but once I started to read it I only became further impressed with the amount of work put into the car.

Steve didn’t just pick up a clapped out Corvette and put it in the weeds, the car has actually been in his family since new and during the late 80s his dad modified it for the first time.



While the car looked very period correct Steve figured with a little mini truck influence it could be a whole lot more than just another nice Corvette.

With complete disregard for whatever purists might think Steve set out to do exactly what he wanted with the ‘Vette because in his own words: stock sucks.

His vision necessitated a rebuild from literally the ground up; the sunflower yellow paint was stripped, the interior was redone, the vacuum setup that controlled the wipers and headlight cowls/doors was binned, the firewall was shaved, and a 350 with 202/160 heads and polished everything was stuffed under the hood.

Finally to set it all off the car was laid out on air.





 The end result of a mountain of hard work is an award winning, irreplaceable, car that lives up to the high standards set by the initial rendering.

While most of the pictures of the car taken at Autorama didn’t really do the car justice these amazing photos from Robert (match_box on flickr) certainly do.





Simply incredible is the only way to describe the end result of this project and I have no doubt in my mind you will see these photos of the car popping up all over the place very soon.

The full set of photos can be seen on Robert’s Flickr and I encourage you to go take a look.

Photo Credit: match_box
Illustration Credit: design165.com
Build thread

I also recently learned that Steve is friends with a couple of the mini-truckers out this way and has plans to drive the car to every show it attends from here on out so who knows maybe I will come across this car in the metal sooner rather than later…

Theme Tuesdays: Classy Car Models Part 5

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DaveT
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If you’ve liked more than one automotive fanpage on Facebook within the past six months chances are pretty good your news feed is starting to look more like a soft core porn by the day.

All this trend of posting half naked women to get likes has done is increase the chances of the disgruntled female two cubicles over reporting you to HR for looking at boobs on work time.

On SIE almost all of the female posts will stay here on the blog so you get to keep your job, and if you do happen to get caught looking at this post just claim you did it because you are into female fashion.

Works every time*.

Managing to retain some class both feet in the air is a feat
Two things which could get a lot of us in a whole lot of trouble
Fisker booth professionals at the CIAS sure didn't look anything like this...
Another booth professional
Models on roofs always make me worry a bit but she looks light enough
70s Dodge Campaigns > Today's
I know the shoes on the s2k are Battles (CST Type 1s) and I will leave it to a female reader to ID the ladies shoes
There are a couple angles from this shoot, the one below you are probably more familiar with
amirite?
Right women and motorcycles Theme Tues...
Better late than never posting this Christmas themed shoot
What? Plaid is classy in some places...
911 love
and more pronounced 911 love
Green for the honeys?
Classy and sassy
It's funny how irrelevant the car is to this photo

*Might not actually work at all.

If you missed the previous:
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four

Oliver’s Travels: 2

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DaveT
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Since the positive reception of the first Oliver’s Travels Ollie seems to have be stepped up his game in regards to the variety and quality of cars he sends through.

Actually…. that is not really true he’s always submitted a wide assortment of straight up bad ass cars. It’s only now that I have started to compile them into posts have I realized just how diverse his submissions really are.

If there was ever to be some sort of automotive Jeopardy or Trivial Pursuit challenge I would want Ollie on my team…

Ollie managed to find another shot of the crazy custom Ford from last Thursday
His love for gassers has not diminished in the slightest since the last post
Seems he picked up a cab over obsession
...easy to see why
A perfect example of just drop it and keep it clean
Don Zapico's 1951 Nash Delivery
A pair of classic Fords Panels
Damn...
Red wheels, red guts
Words cannot describe how much I love this
The Austin Bantam is just one of many cars Ollie introduced me too
Beautiful...
Citroen Loadrunner, evidently a production car of which most are in France, if you are reading this blog and have access to one of these you know what needs to be done.
Note to self... post more FBs
David vs Goliath
2.3L Turbo RWD Starlet.

Thanks again Ollie!

WTF Friday: More Questions Than Answers

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DaveT
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There is a particularly humorous episode of Futurama that involves the Planet Express crew going under water to a city much like Atlantis. Hilarity of course ensues and a after series of particularly ridiculous events concludes with Bender picking up a lit cigar (under water remember) Hermes exclaims “and that just raises further questions!”

Hermes’ repeated confused reaction and desire to grasp what is going on in that scene is exactly how I felt when I first saw this Geo Metro(?) turned into whatever it is now.

Each picture does nothing to explain the one before it and just raises further very valid questions.

So looking at the photo above I can kind of assume it is some sort of Geo, or other compact GM compact (maybe Firefly), however at this point it’s origin is the last of my questions. I would like to know however:

Where did the rest of the car go?
Why go through all that work and leave a door that looks like it could open on the passenger side?
Does the hood still open?
Does that window roll down?

Looking at the second picture it becomes apparent that the person doing the work is at least halfway capable because the panel construction doesn’t look all together terrible (though it might be wood), but…

How do you get the wheels off now?
Are the panels removable do you have to remove the entire rear end to get them off?
Is that the fuel filler near the rear windshield?
If this car ever rolled over would the occupant survive?

Also side pipes, this car has them.

Coming around to the rear no answers, just more questions…

who did all the glass (ie rear windshield) work on this car and did they know what it would become?
And what HAS it become what was the point of this entire endeavor?

While we are on the topic of things that don’t make sense I wonder what happened to this prior to it ending up in the junkyard that made the result below the best course of action?

Questions that will never be answered…

Site Updates

Took a huge shipment of orders to the post office today so anyone who ordered between last Sunday and last night should see something in their mail box really soon.

Two extremely sick dubs showed up in the inbox this week so I’ll be working on getting those features up in the next two weeks.

Finally the weather took a turn for the better which means it is about time to start sorting things out with my car.

Flashback Fridays

In addition to the aforementioned VWs I also got an email about a local TY build, which reminds me of the Syborg, which I saw at SEMA.

I hear a collector owns it now.

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