lil bit of an update, we did a photo shoot for Street Machine yesterday, we had been approached by them for a while but we didn't want to do anything until the car had proven itself, we thought it was time. we took the car down to Wollongong as they wanted the coal terminal as a backdrop, we found an old abandoned site. fortunately it was an overcast day which made taking photo's of a black car easier. the photgrapher Thomas was a real nice guy made the shoot nice n easy, he said the pictures are gonna look really good, he was very happy with them. he went for a drive in the car, was only on it's pump gas tune (700rwhp) but he left with a smile on his face. also big thanks to Steve from Peck's Towing, we were going to drive her down but Steve came along so we threw her on the back of the tow truck. here's a couple pics i took, far from professional
he wanted Joe in a sexy George Costanza-esque pose for the owner's car shot, it was hilarious we had to take our shot also
some nawty person left a powerskid
Project Seven or Project Beat John (our other brother run's 8.0@174 in his 2JZ Corolla) continued today, we are stepping it up. Joe needs to go a little faster, he is a bit bored with 8.3's so we have stepped up the rear housing we went from .63 to a 1.06, with these housing each turbo should be good for 700hp each, we were maxxing out the .62's, 1060hp at the engine. with these turbo's we are hoping to see a 30-50hp gain just by the bigger housings, we hope squeezing in another 5psi (30psi total) on the E85 will give us the extra 100hp that we need. going off the calculators we need 1200hp to just break into the 7's. we changed the housings today, because the housings are larged it just misses off the intake pipe. though we are going to change that so there is more clearance. car is back into Rigoli's this week, he will put in a new EMS CDI, the extra spark should help with the E85. we also need to setup the boost solenoid, the boost will sit at around 18psi while we are at the lights staging, soon as the transbrake comes off then the rest of the boost will come in. hopefully on the weekend she will be re-tuned.
he wanted Joe in a sexy George Costanza-esque pose for the owner's car shot, it was hilarious we had to take our shot also
some nawty person left a powerskid
Project Seven or Project Beat John (our other brother run's 8.0@174 in his 2JZ Corolla) continued today, we are stepping it up. Joe needs to go a little faster, he is a bit bored with 8.3's so we have stepped up the rear housing we went from .63 to a 1.06, with these housing each turbo should be good for 700hp each, we were maxxing out the .62's, 1060hp at the engine. with these turbo's we are hoping to see a 30-50hp gain just by the bigger housings, we hope squeezing in another 5psi (30psi total) on the E85 will give us the extra 100hp that we need. going off the calculators we need 1200hp to just break into the 7's. we changed the housings today, because the housings are larged it just misses off the intake pipe. though we are going to change that so there is more clearance. car is back into Rigoli's this week, he will put in a new EMS CDI, the extra spark should help with the E85. we also need to setup the boost solenoid, the boost will sit at around 18psi while we are at the lights staging, soon as the transbrake comes off then the rest of the boost will come in. hopefully on the weekend she will be re-tuned.
he says will look good he got the smoke as it was coming out of the stacks behind, he said it will look really good. we have sent them all the details just need the writer to call n talk to him. were might wait to see how it goes on March 5th, if it cracks a 7 will look even better 
i remember reading a few months back one of the writers was criticising 1UZ's, so pumping out a 7 with a UZ would give it back a bit. probably be sometime in the next 2-3 issues i'd say.
hopefully will be able to debut the Modular Daytona there also.
....niiiiiiiiiiicccceee !
