Category Archives: Zen Garage

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Cordy’s R32. Click here for a feature we did!

Thickness. You can always bet on seeing something porn at a motorsport shop!

Oh hai! It took 5 months for these custom order MS1’s to come in from WORK Japan.

Boy was the wait worth it! They’re drop dead gorgeous wheels. Much thanks to Leo from JDM Concept for helping us gain sponsorship from WORK Japan.

Spotted! Our bad boys on the shelf.

Heat treating R888R’s!

We were chuffed to have Motorsport veterans Gordon Leven and Bill Pearson fit the tyres to our wheels today. Legends have legendary stories so we went fishing and came up with some pearlers! One story involved a customer John Gale who brought in his Surtees TS9B F1 race car (driven by James Hunt). He needed the rear tyres on his magnesium rims replaced, but the rear rims were so wide the guys had to modify their tyre machines on the fly to make it happen.

Out came the big guns!

The guys commended these WORK wheels on having a good safety contour (outer bead seat area) which made for easy tyre fitting and should prevent the bead from slipping and air escaping, even in motorsport conditions

Specs: We’ve gone for a staggered set of TOYO PROXES R888R’s. 245/40/18 in the front and 255/35/18 in the rear.

The custom WORK Meister M1’s we ordered for our ZEN Rocket Bunny 180SX 5 months ago have finally landed from Japan and Cordy and I headed straight out to Emu Plains to visit Gordon Leven Motorsport Tyres to get a set of staggered Toyo Tyres Proxes R888R semi-slicks fitted!

I got an email from Nike Australia the other day, almost fell off my chair! They needed some help to find some hot cars to display at an event, this is what went down: http://www.zengarage.com.au/2016/08/zen-x-nike

Foot in the door, hopefully! Would love to work with Nike some more in future.

Man! I had no idea they had so many cameras going on the day! SUCH A GREAT LITTLE VIDEO! Props to Toyota, big time! Full Feature on Zen: http://www.zengarage.com.au/2016/04/toyota-86-racing-series-t86rs-track-day/

R888’s FTW.

Zen RPRSNT!

Always a soft spot. My first car was a Celica.

Tetsuya Tada and I.

Ved and I covered the Festival of 86 in Canberra last weekend for Toyo Tyres Australia. I got to meet the Toyota 86’s Chief Engineer Tetsuya Tada who Toyota flew in from Japan. Was a great day out in general, no traffic, perfect weather, great food and I especially dug just being in the Caddy with Ved on a road trip!

More photos on Zen! Visit: http://www.zengarage.com.au/2016/05/2016-festival-of-86/

Ved and I were invited by Toyota to get behind the wheel and fang the all new #T86RS Toyota 86 Racing Series race car at Sydney Motorsport Park’s South Circuit.

Full feature will be on Zen soon!