Cars and Shit

Lately, I've been pretty consumed with work that I've been trying to find ways to not do anything. Only problem is, if you own a car that can be modified, you can never sit still. There's always some shit you gotta do and something is always broken so if it's not work, it's cars. I don't regret it though, it's been a passion and something I truly enjoy. I've also been watching youtube videos of cars and came across this guy's review on the 981 GT4. The review didn't stand out as anything significant but he said something that really reverberated with how I feel about cars. I could never really pin point my exact feeling until I heard his simple explanation for changing cars. "I value the experience of the next car more than the experience I have with the current." It's such a simple thought that I'm not sure why I couldn't have came up with that myself. Thinking more about it, the GT3 was the ultimate experience that I had s...

Part 1 was getting too long since a lot of shit has happened since I got the car. Starting to feel like a big project lol.  So coming back from Sacramento, the suspension felt like dog shit. First thing first, took it to get fluid change and inspect the underside. For a Japanese car from Japan, the underside was pretty clean but a few surface rust on some heat shields and questionable Japanese wiring. Suspension on the other end was pretty bad. There were seized tie rods, ripped control arm bushings and a blown shock gushing fluid everywhere. Luckily for me, I was too lazy to sell some of the harder to find suspension bits from my white 33 and will be using it for this car. Ended up ordering some nismo arms, nismo floor mats and oil filters from RHDjapan. Using some SPL parts, Son and I ended up swapping out the tie rods for 350z inners and SPL outers with correction. Front tension bushing was also ripped so I installed some SPL adjustable ones. Hopefully the JRZ comes in soon so I...

 Being in your 30s is weird. You're supposed to be somewhat near the middle path of your career, have some stability and kind of understand who you are and what you're about. I thought by now, I would know this but here I am buying what I thought I want and liquidating shit once again. Let me preface this by saying that I'm usually pretty good at buying what I feel are a good fit for my lifestyle and everything I buy has a reason or benefit. Back in early September, I thought I wanted an Autobahn monster like the E63 AMG S. It was everything I wanted, big, powerful and looks amazing. I truly loved that car but after owning it for a short while, I think it'll be a car that I'll come back to later in life (if they still have gas cars).  As for now, Andrew purchased the car and now his ego is so big, his head won't fit inside the car.  E63 on BBS The Tesla on the other hand, I have very complicated feelings toward that car. I understand electric is the future and w...