Month: November 2017

Ever since I swapped out my straight pipe for my friends exhaust(much quieter ❤️). Since having this exhaust I’ve been able to:

1. listen to my music and enjoy it

2. Not be afraid to drive past Polizei

3. Not get a headache when driving on the autobahn more than 30 minutes

And last but not least..

4. Listen to all the weird rubs, rocks, and noises the car makes

So with all these pros I had to get another exhaust. Being a 2jz and a Supra sound is key and I really wanted my car to still have that epic 2jz sound in higher rpms but I want a silent rumble at idle. I’m sure my neighbors would love me as well, not having to wake up at 5am with me. While looking for an exhaust first I wanted to make sure it quiet. This immediately knocked out 50% of the common options. Then I wanted cost effective or under $500, yup… this is definitely used exhaust territory here #TeamBroke. To end I wanted it to look good.

With the criteria I had I began to checked every Facebook page, with nothing for sale. I said what the heck and checked popular Supra websites just to see and man the whifbitz exhaust had me drooling… but that cost tho. So, I checked yahoo auctions and ended up on upgarage that had the possibly perfect exhaust. The reason I said possibly is because it is a custom exhaust and looking on YouTube it’s an unpopular setup for a turbo Supra 😩

^ Whifbitz Exhaust 😍

To break it down it’s an HKS HiPower 409 Muffler (this muffler is ONLY made for the NA with a 3″ pipe diameter and a 115mm tip). Then it has the resonator cut out with a straight pipe welded in its place making the full exhaust still straight pipe but with a muffler. As the common HKS Silent HiPower Exhaust is a 3.75″ pipe with a 120mm tip. Listening to all the videos on YouTube the HKS Exhaust has the sounds I’m looking for but oddly enough some cars sound perfect and some are too quiet lol. So it’s a mess and a huge gamble with this exhaust I have coming in.

While ordering this exhaust above I also stumbled upon a passenger seat rail finally for my Bride Eurostar II I’ve been storing as well! Like any car guy, I’m just waiting at the door for the postman!

Continuing on from last post… I had only 3 1/2 hours of sleep before hearing the alarm go off for me to wake up to hea. Man did I feel like death after driving for 11hrs the day before to only get 3 1/2 hours of sleep. So I at least prepped decent for me to leave quick and get on the road to Nürburgring before 8 so I can get to the drivers meeting/brief. Leaving my house at 6 AM, getting gas at 6:15 and getting on the autobahn by 6:30 and remembering I have everything with me tools wise except my tire iron by 6:45 but too late to go back. Luckily I had a friend that was going to the ring as well so I asked if he can go to my house and pick up my tire iron when he is on his way!

The GPS said I’d arrive at 7:47AM but thank god for 1.1 bar of boost and some good tires I was able to get to there at 7:26 and followed a guy with a E36 drift car on a trailer to ensure I go to the right place. ( always works when you don’t know where to go but you are close) After getting there and getting my wrist band they tell me the brief is at 8:45… boy was a mad because of how much extra sleep I could have gotten but getting there at that time allowed me to meet the owner of New Mode Photography! A guy who spoke perfect English and definitely helped translate everything haha. During the brief there was word that an American Professional Drifter would stop by, and he was doing a shoot on the ring with a mustang.. Yup… you know who it is!

But here are pics of my car kitted and ready for drifitng!

 Once the day started this 200sx imediatly caught my attention by how smooth and consistent she was!

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Yup… ITS VAUGHN GITTIN JR.!!! He brought his RTR 2017 Mustang out to play and I got to actually tandem with him! He said my car was too fast lol due to me having too much grip in my tires and I need to up the tire pressure or stiffen the rear dampening.

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More pics!

Needless to say the day was awesome
Huge shout out to Raphael De Los Reyes for showing me this event so I could attend!

Thanks bro!

Some friends and I were just out on a normal chill day and I got a text from a friend…. no text just pics

I’ve always said if I were to get a kit it would have to be a Ridox or Ridox Rep due to the perfect styling of it. I told Josh this when he came to my house 2 months ago to hand over a gauge cluster for a friend, and he kept that in mind. He messaged me at 2028, or 8:28 PM for my regular people saying there was some fenders for sell for 200 Euro OR BEST OFFER! I had Jake, message the guy on eBay if we can pick up in a week and long story short some miscommunication happened and I ended up saying screw it. I’ll be there tomorrow! He wouldn’t ship due to possibility of if getting messed up so I took the 5 hour one way trip(11 hours total though) to get these fenders. So I go to sleep and wake up at 9 to make sure I’ll be good to do the drive and pick up the fenders. while messaging the guy I ask if he has anything else for sale #MISTAKE. He said he can sell the front bumper and Sideskirts to match which mean’t I had to do it and I needed a bigger vehicle lol. I called SIXT rental cars at 10 and picked up at 11 and was on the road by 12. When I asked the guy to send pics of the kit, this is what I got.

@Supra238 on Instagram BTW

But getting this pics you know its a done deal. So excitement was kicking in.

Van CHECK

Friends and Family CHECK

Long drive next

We get there at 5:30 and upon arrival I seen the kit and instantly fell in love! We loaded up he said he would show us his supra which was beautiful and super clean J-Spec Supra that was without a kit and wheels due to him upgrading. Then we did our long drive back. We got back at exactly 11Pm and since I took of my body kit to attempt the install the kit for the track the next day I had no choice but to stay up longer to finish. Even though I had to wake up at 6am the next morning to head to the track.

After about a solid 30 mins of some zip tie magic this is what I get!

Crappy pics right? Well stay tuned for better pics!

#PAUnlimited!

Soo I sold my last set of wheels… and of course I had to throw on my bench team Wheels…

Work XD9 up front and Work VS-MX rear

I sold the rims specifically to get my street set of rims and for those that know me, know I’m a one piece wheel guy which means my choices are common. Work or Rays of course..

I found a dope set on yahoo auction and had to message a friend to get them for me ASAP! Funny enough I tried getting this exact set 3 months prior but was advised to wait for a better set. Which never happened pushing me to get them for sure when they popped up again.

1 weeks for shipper to ship and get to my friend, then 2 days to hand them over to a friend who had more free time to ship lastly, 4 days to get to me from Japan 😍..

Picking them up they looked perfect and the tires were new so I was more than happy… I’ll stop talking just look!​

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Work Emotion T7Rs 😘

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So November 2nd, 2017 was the day I lost my marbles(mind).. a good friend that lives about an hour from me has always talked about getting a Supra. Wether it was from selling his mustang or trading it for a Supra he wanted one. But it was on that day, that he sold his Mustang to his good friend and offered to buy mine. I was honestly terrified to sell it and didn’t know what I would really consider selling it for.. but we had had talked previously about prices and pretty much it was put to the side but when he was actually ready I didn’t want to be that guy to back out so I gave in for the chance. His friend drove him an hour just to come check out my Supra for the first time and he was sold. So we went to the bank for him to get a loan and the amount couldn’t be given due to the year of the car?! (So these expensive Supras that are 40k plus people are paying cash?!?!?! After 30mins of talking to the bank clerk we knew there wasn’t a way for him to get the car so we just hung out for a little and decided to head home.​ Of course them being in a mustang I had to race them soooooo….

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