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Fan of the Van

Whilst many people out there get the impression that I’m a good designer, personally I prefer the work of others. One such guy is Mike Stevens (I call him “Van” as that’s been his username on JDMST since the beginning).

A while back Christina and I got Van to design the VWGolf.net.au logo (which we’re very happy with) and since we’ve opened up JDMST to membership I wanted to give our supporters a special edition Supporting Member sticker for their rides.

Van got it done quick, and in my opinion nailed it first go. I love it! I’m sure our supporting members will love it too.

For more information on JDMST Membership, click here. To visit Mike Steven’s folio visit: http://localmike.com

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New Top One Auto logo design

Yes being naughty and ripping shit off again. Top logo symbol is inspired by the F1 logo, bottom one inspired by the McLaren F1 logo. Cheeky bugger huh? Which one do you like best?

PS: New site is up: http://toponeauto.com.au

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SUGA’s Officially On Air!


Side profile. Front can go down a little more but I didn’t risk it.


Rear at it’s lowest setting.


Not set the preset settings yet so I was using the up and down on both right hand side buttons. 1, 2 and 3 will allow for all the way down setting for parking. 2 will be drivable setting and 3 will be for all the way up (can go a little higher than stock!).


All installed. Audio installation guy has been contacted, he will commence work on hiding all this gear this week.


Here’s a little video.

OK got to say I’m as excited as Christina is now! Just got back from TOP ONE and damn the system is AMAZING. It’s killer fast due to the fatter airlines we optioned for the kit. Just as fast going up as it is down, so fast it’s kinda scary! The compressor is loud, but not too loud, the sound of air releasing in the boot is pretty loud and freaky first time around as well.

I took it lower than Dedy had initially just to see how bad it was at the front, but the rub isn’t all that bad. A thinner tyre will fix it easy. Even with more aggressive offset and a stretched tyre it should be AOK (rim won’t touch, it’s all in the tyres). More soon!

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Bags R Us


Wiring mess.

SUGA is still at Top One Auto getting her air suspension installed. Great thing about the R32 Golf is that the battery is in the boot which makes all of this wiring potentially a little easier, and neater. The bad thing is that the rear boot is quite shallow in comparison to an ordinary MKV which means we’ll have to get an audio shop to design a raised cover of some sort to hide all the gear (huge aluminium air tank and compressor not pictured in the above shot).

She’ll be the very first R32 Golf to ever have air suspension in Australia. We won’t be sure of how low it’ll go straight off the bat, we won’t know how well the car will handle after the install too (whether it’ll be totally crap, or AOK). Unknown territory so it’s no wonder that the community is pretty excited about this install. More updates as they come!

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WTAC – Saturday


Today, instead of shooting cars I thought I’d shoot single and shy Cam (affectionately known as Tassie Cam after our Tasmania trip) with promo girls. :)


He looks very happy, yes?


Out of all the amazing cars there today Christina’s favorite was this bagged MKV Golf.


Totally out of place, but there was a huge showing of low rider style bikes.


Unridable works of art, pretty much.

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WTAC – Friday


Sierra Sierra Evo from the USA.


Hankook Evo.


Too many amazing cars to take photos of so I instead decided to bug people by yelling out their names and taking snaps of them as they turned around. “Charles!”


“Tendy!”

World Time Attack Challenge (WTAC) was on today. Perfect weather, bumped into lots of people, felt very much like I was at a rave! More pics here.

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VWGolf.net.au Schnitzel Night


Christina and I. Edited image by illektonik


His and hers. Edited image by illektonik


David’s R32.


David’s R32.


Tendy’s Scirocco R.


Suga went for the salad!


Of-course I went for something a lot more naughty haha.


Group shot.

VWGolf.net.au Schnitzel Night (1st Wednesday of every month) last Wednesday night @ the Bavarian at EQ. We had almost 20 people in for dinner and I took the opportunity to finally shoot David’s R32 Golf (he’s been wanting me to shoot his car for ages!). As much as I love taking photos for this blog it’s been strange having someone ask me to shoot their car. I definitely fell short. In the dark car park the GF1 just produced noisy shots. The more I edited them in Photoshop the noisier things got. Thankfully we’ve got John, an amazingly talented Photoshopper on the forums. He worked his magic on 2 of the above images (of Christina’s R32 and my GTI).

Many more pictures here.

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JDMST Brands T now in the shop


& Yeah…

Couldn’t help myself! JDMST Brands T now available.

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JDMST/Circuit Club Senna Screening


A sold out event, our own private cinema and we raised $5,000 for the Sydney Children’s Hospital Foundation!


Narada and John raffled of a bunch of prizes before the screening.


Sydney Children’s Hospital Foundation show bag with chocolates inside on every seat.

The vibe in the Hoyts foyer last night pre-show was awesome. 200 car guys, all here to watch Senna, all donating their money to the Sydney Children’s Hospital Foundation. Good times.

Once everyone was seated and prizes were raffled off, Narada showed a short Sydney Children’s Hospital Foundation film which I’m sure touched everyone in the audience. If people weren’t sure that their $25 went to a good cause before, they sure knew it now.

Senna itself went down hard. It’s an emotional film and I’m sure it educated a lot of people about who the man was, how he thought and what racing was like in the 80’s.

More photos form the night here.

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Bag Riders MK5 R32 Kit


MK5 R32 full kit with touch pad e level system from Bag Riders (with help from Jordan Donnelly – love you meng!).

In the mail today! Christina’s R32 is booked in at TOP ONE for installation next week. Crazy shit is crazy!

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