Category Archives: Cars

World Time Attack Challenge

WTAC is just around the corner, a monster event which sees the worlds fastest track cars fly downunder to clock the fastest time they can around Eastern Creek International Raceway. Even if you’re not into cars, the event’s worth checking out (there’s drift and show and shine events as well). Speaking of show and shine, a mate spotted my GT-R on the WTAC web site, looks like I’ll be expected to bring my GT-R out then?!

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Canibeat Meet on Video


jdmst-canibeat-jdmyard meet from ktith on Vimeo.

Just to give you a taste of what our car meets are like. Tasty TITH BROS video from the meet earlier this month. :)

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Subframe Alignment @ Spinning Wheel Tyres


Low car and lip isn’t a problem when this ramp sits dead flush with the ground when down.


-2.5 camber in the rear means the wheels are tucking again. Looks weak, but no rub.

Ever since my last wheel alignment I’ve noticed that the drivers side rear rubs a lot more than the passenger side. I could visually see that the drivers side rear tyre was much loser to the guard than the passenger side rear. It’s bothered me a lot. I just assumed VW’s are built this way but when I was hanging out with Anthony (Carbon Lotus/R36 Twin Turbo Golf owner) the other day he told me that the rear subframe can be aligned, and that most if not all VW’s are out of alignment from factory.

His guys at Spinning Wheel Tyres had done his car, and a few other VW’s so I booked in and today I got my alignment done. Great guys, super quick, heaps of great advice regarding set-up too (I know many of the MX-5 guys use Spinning Wheel).

They think my car has been set up WAY too stiff. I agree but I can’t adjust the rears without dropping out the rear shocks (so so annoying). Will have to do at a later date. For now, straight rear sub frame and no more rubbing in the rear (I dialed the rear to -2.5 like my previous alignment with the CROSS coilovers).

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Hanging out with Jordan


Bulmers with ice at the Argyl.


Tapas treats.


Jordan shooting AP’s R32 Golf.


The QSR bike was towed by this hummer with crazy huge wheels.


QSR bike.


Fat!


Jordan at work.


QSR’s Million Dollar Drag Car. There’s so much gold plating in the engine bay, you have to see it to believe it.

Jordan‘s about to leave to go back home to the states so we thought we’d hang out. He had a couple of shoots to do today. One was Anthony’s Golf R32 which has a twin turbo R36 engine swap, the other shoot was the Queen Street Racing Million Dollar Drag Car and matching bike.

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Canibeat x JDMyard Meet


Photo by Felix Alim.

Whilst I was in Melbourne I missed one of my own car meets. Turns out that it was a huge one as everyone wanted to get their car snapped by Jordan (check a few posts back). Judging by the photos it looked like the sun was out, and as usual some crazy hot cars turned up too. Click here to check out the pics, many more to come from what I’ve heard as every man and his DSLR was in attendance!

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Jordan Donnelly GT-R shoot


Jordan @ work!

I spent the day with Florida based Photographer Jordan Donnelly who’s in Sydney to shoot some cars. Rad guy, really looking forward seeing what the shots turn out like. Visit Jordan’s Photography site and Versiontwo Laboratory, his posse.

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VWGolf.net.au Ribs Night


Hurricanes Bondi Beach.


Wow Cow in Dalringhurst for dessert.

VWGolf.net.au monthly Schnitzel nights are still going strong (1st Wednesday of every month). Last night we hit Hurricanes in Bondi Beach to have ribs for a change. It’s always have to tell which I like better, Hurricanes, or Kelly’s. When I’m at Kelly’s I think Kelly’s are better, and last night I thought Hu8rricanes was better!

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VWGolf.net.au Go Kart Day


8.30AM crazy fog.


The boys.


Most likely never going!


Suiting up.


Not only was it foggy, but it was freezing cold during the driver briefing, luckily though the sun came up and it ended up being the perfect day.


We hired the 13HP (faster) corporate karts.


I thought the stars had aligned when I got kart number 32 (R32 GT-R!), but I knew beating Aaron was going to be hard (he’s a pro race car driver!).


The Aarons. Note: Fast guy is in his own suit.


We had 13 guys out on the track, not too many drivers, just right.


After a warm up session and 4 hardcore races the final 15 lap grand prix decider ended up like this.


2nd place for me, was never going to come first as Aaron was just too good. He also got the fastest lap time of the day, beating my time by just .01 of a second. Soooooooooo frustrating!


Beers and lunch at the Royal Cricketers Arms, apparently one of Australia’s oldest pubs (1880).

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Senna Charity Screening – Tickets on sale now!

I know some of you aren’t into cars, or F1, but maybe people you know are and I’d really appreciate it if you could help me spread the word on this one. It’s perhaps one of the biggest things I’ve ever tried to organise in my life to date!

Tickets are on sale now. $25 and ALL PROCEEDS will be going to Sydney Children’s Hospital Foundation. Book now at: http://www.circuitclub.com.au/page/senna-charity-screening

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Cars Move Us update


Who didn’t have a Lamborghini Countach poster on their wall as a kid? (Dad bought me one with a naked babe on the bonnet! Daaaad!).

Cars Move Us is doing really good 3 days in.

I initially registered the domain name in 2008, never used it (Narada and I almost did, we had dreams of making it an amazing blog which superstar drivers contributed to) and let it lapse. I ended up turning it into Bikes Move Us.

The other day I was hunting down domain names for the space (so hard to find a name for it!). I punched in ‘Cars Move Us’ and it was available so I bought it (again). And this time I got going on it right away rather than let it fizzle out.

The concept is a lot simpler this time around. It’s basically inspired by the “car pron & cool shiat” folder on my desktop which I use to store images I love and find, usually on the net.

I’ve noticed a lot of images in the car pron thread on various forums have broken (due to people hot linking an image which is not online anymore). It’s a real shame that these images are lost, perhaps forever in some cases so I’m making an effort to re-upload them all onto the Cars Move Us server (clicking on an image loads in the full sized image where possible).

We’ve got quite a few contributors on there at the moment, all local for now but that will change soon (I’m envisioning 20+ international contributors in future). All posts are made anonymously, so the contributing team as a whole takes the credit. No posts are dated either (though the site will be updated daily) as the content we’re posting is arguably timeless.

Please visit: http://www.carsmoveus.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/carsmoveus
Twitter: @carsmoveus

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