Wazman's NB8a

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wazman
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Re: Wazman's NB8a

Postby wazman » Wed Jun 09, 2010 9:21 pm

A little vid of me and a friends s14 silvia

http://vimeo.com/11987217

enjoy....... ( sorry i dunno how to embed vimeo...???)
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Re: Wazman's NB8a

Postby zorak » Thu Jun 10, 2010 4:42 pm

cool vid - this forum won't embed vimeo, only youtube
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Re: Wazman's NB8a

Postby wazman » Thu Jun 17, 2010 4:10 pm

TEASER.........drift at winton this weekend, dont want my car looking crap with stockies on the rear !

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Re: Wazman's NB8a

Postby wazman » Fri Jun 18, 2010 3:46 am

The hydraulic hand brake turned out to be a nightmare ! well just bleeding the thing :( Because i mounted the slave UPSIDE DOWN in the tunnel under the car ! It had an air bubble in it that would not come out no matter how much i bled the system! I ended up unbolting the slave with the lines still attached and twisting it around until it was up the right way and then bleeding it ! That was really annoying because i was a smarty pants and mounted it in such a hard to get to spot :?

The lines are really easy to bend.....and didn't need to pay someone to pre bend them for me :| I actually needed to shorten them so i used a brake line flaring tool to do the job.
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Below shows where i intend to "T" into the rear brake line. The slave has a valve in it so it just runs inline....
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Below shows the lines going into the slave....more so how tight the space is there.... and close to my exhaust. high temps= brake fade.....installs heat shield !
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This is how the leaver ended up looking .....ditched the ugly bolt :roll: The oem cover fits over it so mister po po dosn't bust my chops about it.
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I also removed this piece of useless junk! The clutch line that goes over behind the engine and then back again to the clutch slave ! I just re-bent the remaining line to have just a straight metal only line from the top to the slave on the box= better pedal feel and simpler :idea:
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Sportmax 002's 16x8 +0 after a trial fit it turns out my current wheels are -4 !!! not +4 like everyone seems to think...... the 4 mm extra clearance was obvious when i trial fitted the 002's...... Fitted pic's after "DRIFT ATTACK"
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Re: Wazman's NB8a

Postby Midnite Drifter » Tue Jul 06, 2010 10:53 pm

Hi mate, glad to see a dedicated drifter here. I am setting up my NA6 for drift also and would need lots of advices from you. Could you PM me your contact? Thanks.., Logan

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Re: Wazman's NB8a

Postby dorifta » Sat Jul 10, 2010 5:11 am

Ummmmm dude why are you selling mani n turbo??? Can you please take me for a drive before u take it off! I need some motivation to fit my kit hahah
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Re: Wazman's NB8a

Postby wazman » Mon Jul 26, 2010 8:57 pm

Driving home last weekend and booted it from a set of lights.......grabbed second.......POP ! crunch crunch grind grind !! sadface .....

no more second gear.....
out comes the box and apart it comes as "how hard can this be?" i think to myself !

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im stuck here...... i need the service manual before i can continue safely...... anyone got a link ???? :roll:
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Re: Wazman's NB8a

Postby honki3rider » Thu Aug 26, 2010 11:24 pm

Any updates? :mrgreen:

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Re: Wazman's NB8a

Postby wazman » Sun Sep 12, 2010 6:37 pm

Had some drift at winton raceway last weekend. Go Pro footage..........enjoy !

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Re: Wazman's NB8a

Postby wazman » Sun Sep 12, 2010 6:59 pm



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Re: Wazman's NB8a

Postby wazman » Sun Sep 12, 2010 7:01 pm

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Re: Wazman's NB8a

Postby wazman » Sun Sep 12, 2010 7:09 pm

5th gear one tails on the main straight ! linked the last corner of the esse's to turn one in one fish tail.....though i stuffed up in the spin footage above !
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Re: Wazman's NB8a

Postby Okibi » Sun Sep 12, 2010 8:11 pm

Nice work and great footage would have loved to see some from trackside too, looks like you were linking up those first few corners really well. Wish I could steer like that.
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Re: Wazman's NB8a

Postby Si.G » Sun Sep 12, 2010 10:06 pm

The drifting is totally sweet - Keep up the good work !!!
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Re: Wazman's NB8a

Postby wazman » Mon Sep 13, 2010 9:46 am

I shall be at winton again this weekend ! for Performance Car Mania. Hopefully get some dry track drift footage for you guys.....

Hopefully be painting the car at the end of the year so there will be more updates soon.......at the moment spending alot of my cash driving the car rather than making it faster...... But i am still hungry for that 200rwkw so i can see my car getting rougher on the outside and faster on the inside.
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