Category Archives: Cars

What a beast.

Owner Steve Ka, and driver Dean Lillie.

Ved setting up a plethora of GoPro cameras.

Can’t quite spot it in this shot, but that’s Ved shooting the GT-R leaving the garage with his GoPro in a gimble (can’t wait to see the footage!).

Mitch from Haltech was there all day to work on the GT-R.

Loved watching the Powertune team run this car today, they’re pro!

In case celebrations… but in reality the guys were plagued by fuel delivery issues and didn’t manage to get a solid lap in at all despite trying their best to solve the issue (which was unfortunately only identified after the last session!).

Steve’s GT-R shared a garage with this beauty.

In a garage a little further down were the Toyo guys! FAMILIA!

They were testing the new R888R vs. the older R888 on this gorgeous (and damn loud!) Capella!

As expected, the new R888R is faster than the old R888. I’ll hopefully be able to post those results in a separate feature on Zen soon!

And a little further down again were my mates at JDMyard with their new look Honda EG Civic which has never ever been so badass.

Driver Adam Casmiri getting strapped in.

Wild!

Not sure if wing is big enough.

My fave shot of the day! I had to sprint to get up onto the rooftop quick enough to grab this shot!

This R32 GT-R is off it’s tits.

Magnificent.

Insight S2K.

Andrew Hawkins from Motive DVD covering the Tilton EVO.

Voltex are here!

Ridiculous, right?!

V-Sport 86.

Minidisc EVO and Nik Kalis’ EVO in the same garage.

JEM’s got one smooth looking R32 GT-R.

Diversity is key.

Loved spending a little one on one time with this classic (shame the rest of my shots of it didn’t turn out great though!).

Spent the day with Ved from Selectnine out at Sydney Motorsport Park yesterday (Ved was filming the Powertune R34 GT-R which won last year).

Was a great day out made especially special by a few World Time Attack Challenge cars in attendance. I was mostly just soaking up the atmosphere (the smells and sounds gahhhh), but I did rattle off a few shots. Can’t say I’m happy with many of them, but I love the one of the JDMyard EG Civic entering it’s garage from above.

Enjoy the shots, be sure to do whatever it takes to get your ass to World Time Attack this year, it’s going to be insane (we will be there with the Zen Stand of-course!).

Visit: http://www.worldtimeattack.com

Photos and video from the Fast & Furious 7 Drive Experience I participated in last week! Full Feature: http://www.zengarage.com.au/2015/08/fast-furious-7-dvd-launch-media-drift-day/

Last night Toyo hosted a tech night for the NSW 86/BRZ Car Club. I dropped in to check it out and I was pretty damn impressed with the huge turnout of 86’s and BRZ’s, all of which were modified (a stock one would have stood out!) and modified differently to each other too which was cool.

I’m always nervous shooting without natural light, but with some encouragement from my main man Ved I felt confident and ended up with a few decent shots!

View the full feature on Zen: http://www.zengarage.com.au/2015/07/nsw-86brz-car-club-toyo-tech-night/

Ved at work.

His new LED light set-up.

Nico’s Maserati.

Golf’s look tough without their rear bumpers!

Still smiling.

As if introducing himself for the first time. Kato-san touched the car, then went straight for the fender!

Kato-san freaking out at the low and loud planes that fly over Heasman Steering.

Got him!

Toyo RPRSNT!

MotorEX 2015!

The King of Kustoms! George Barris!

Ty’s amazing Liberty Walk M3.

Love the green wheels!

My dream, but in black with an RB26.

Toyo RPRSNT!

Movie Car Mania!

Had an awesome day yesterday tagging along with Ved from Selectnine who was filming and shooting the SUNUS Motorsports LB M3 and a meeting with Mr Liberty Walk himself, Kato-san for Heasman Steering.

Kato-san arrived at Heasman Steering direct from the airport, meeting and greeting the Heasman Steering crew and having in-depth suspension related discussions with Brad Heasman. He was also given an all access tour of the Heasman Steering facility.

We then headed off to MotorEx. Nothing beats set-up day. No crowds, just the true enthusiasts getting their cars ready for the show. It feels like such a privilege! Andrew Spira intriduced me to living legend George Barris too. George designed the 60’s Batmobile (which I grew up watching on TV). AMAZING!!!

Check the intro of this video. Freaky!

Wheels off!

Toyo Proxes R1R’s. More info on the tyre here.

VERY square sidewalls! Just what I missed about the R-S3’s I had on before the Potenza RE003’s.

Chunky as!

37psi and balanced with black wheel weights.

OK… so the rears are going to be an issue!

Magic man Stu tried his best, maxing out my rear camber.

Today I had a booking at Spinning Wheel Tyres to get a fresh set of Toyo R1R tyres fitted to the Golf. I only recently fitted a set of Bridgestone RE003’s, which have been absolutely awesome in the dry and wet, but I’m sponsored by Toyo now, and I did miss the fat semi-slick like profile of the R-S3’s I had on before. These R1R’s bring back the fat, big time (as they’re 245 wide where the R-S3’s were 235).

Bruno did an awesome job fitting the tyres. These tyres are just so fat that I made the call to remove the 10mm spacers up front. I knew the rears were going to be an issue as I had no spacers on the rear to begin with! As soon as we dropped the car off the hoist we realised my wheel studs were too long up the front (longer studs because of spacers) so we moved the rear studs to the front, and Fulvio at Spinning Wheel lent me a set of nuts just so I could drive home.

Thing is I couldn’t drive home. The rear tyres were literally up against the body!

Luckily Stu (Spinning Wheels’ wheel alignment guy) was in the house. He’s a magic man and managed to max out my rear camber. The rears don’t rub unless I hit a bump, but it doesn’t take much of a bump to rub so I’m either going to have to cut away some fender lining, or I might even have to size down the rears to 225.

Thanks:
Toyo Tires Australia: http://toyotires.com.au
Spinning Wheel Tyres: http://www.spinningwheeltyres.com