200sx Web - Wide Body Nissan S14a

i dropped the oil today and used a chux cloth to filter out any potential filings, i did pick up a bit of sludge of very fine particle's over the sump plug and after using my chux draining system switched to a pot filter from bunnings and ran the oil again through this to pick up anything else.

Made it onto 7Tune http://www.7tune.com/event-showcased-presented-by-the-lowdown-com/

Noticed under high load at the last track day that the new gearbox was starting to crunch into 4th at high fast gear changes from 3rd to 4th. Could be as simple as the offset shift not aligning correctly as i try to change as fast as possible or something greater but it seemed to get worse as the day went on.

 Love this shot.

saw all the nice cars that are going so thought i had better clean the car before rocking up, gave it a quick once over and a wax and it came up a treat.

been doing a little bit of mucking around in the garage after work lately and it gets very cold as the ceiling is not insulated. Picked up a little heater today from bunnings that is very sturdy and industrial type, works quiet well.

Well a little investigation into why the Aerocatch bonnet catchs had gone rusty and it turns out they were fake. Luckily i bought them from a local business who was also caught out and they promptly sorted out the issue and replaced with some genuine ones. http://www.aerocatch.com/counterfeit-warning Here is some photos of the real catches, the first thing i saw was the packaging was different as the fake ones don't have the "Made in England" on them.  They also feel a lot sturdier as well  This is the real one, no tooling marks.  Here is the fake one, see the tooling marks If you are looking for catches check the link above and make sure you buy genuine ones as the fake ones will rust straight away and they don't seem as strong.