Posted in Turbocharged Tirades, tagged Mitsubishi, Lancer, evolution, evo, Volk, Rays, CE28N, evo x, evo 10, x, 10, food, evo 8, evo VIII, 8, VIII, re30, ct9a, nasi ayam, mushroom on April 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Many a time I’ve heard people saying that it’s the wheels that make the car, however of late I’ve been wondering if that common saying should be revered to say that it’s the car that makes the wheels. So that you might understand this slightly-pointless rant a little better, let me elaborate.
I don’t know if [...]
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Posted in Turbocharged Tirades, tagged accident, crash, euro, european, f430, ferrari, gt-r, gtr, Japan, japanese, JDM, lamborghini, lp640, murcielago, nissan, r31, r35, skyline on April 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It seems we can’t get through a news week without having our eyes assailed with a picture of some rich specimen whose totalled his priceless supercar. Not long ago it was the prize tool who will go down in the history books as the one who destroyed the first ever Nissan GT-R — and on [...]
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Posted in Turbocharged Tirades, tagged 10, america, apple, audioslave, birds, bov, cow, earth, electric, endangered, evo 10, evo x, evolution, fossil fuel, fuel, fuel cell, gasoline, gt-r, gtr, hydrogen, insect, internal combustion, itunes, korea, Lancer, lcd tv, Mitsubishi, mother earth, nissan, nuclear, nuke, pig, planet, r34, robot, russia, scalextric, scrotum, skyline, terrorist, turbo, turbocharger, united states, us, usa, virus, x on April 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Let me say right from the start of this post that I love Mother Earth. No really, I do. She provides me with all sorts of things I need like air to breathe, water to cool me down on a hot summer day, and probably most importantly, tasty creatures like swine, bovine and several species [...]
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Posted in Turbocharged Tirades, tagged Australia, Australian, barack obama, bostik, clinton, glue, hillary, hillary clinton, obama, paste, president, rant, upgrade, wordpress on April 5, 2008 | No Comments »
Okay, I used to eat paste at school. You know those wind-up Bostik glue stick things? I don’t know if they have them outside of Australia so most of you think I may be somewhat of a raving mental patient, but just Google it and you should find out what they are. In fact, I’ll [...]
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Posted in Turbocharged Tirades, tagged bike, johor bahru, Malaysia, motorbike, noise, scooter, sound, whine, whistle, yashio factory on March 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Since I’ve been in Malaysia, I’ve noticed that a lot of the motorbikes, scooters and even some cars, sometimes emit what I can only explain as being an irritating ascending whistling sound, kinda like a mock-turbocharger whine or something.
My guess is that it’s something of a faux performance mod, making the owner think he’s riding [...]
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Posted in Turbocharged Tirades, tagged Australia, brisbane, cab, car, carless, driving, hire, johor bahru, Malaysia, queensland, rent, sunshine coast, taxi, toowoomba on March 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Today is the first time since I’ve been in Malaysia that I’ve really been bored, as it’s a Sunday and I’ve got absolutely nothing planned. You see, if I were religious I guess this would be my church day, but since I’m not I’ll just have to find something else to do.
Normally If I were [...]
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In the world of Japanese performance tuning, the Volk series of wheels made by Ray’s Engineering have always stood head-and-shoulders over everything else. And whenever you think about anything Ray’s, their flagship TE37 wheel usually comes to mind, being probably the most famous and common design they’ve ever created.
In recent years the TE37 has become [...]
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I was reading through an issue of Option this morning - and when I say reading, I mean looking at the pictures as the whole magazine is in Japanese - and I got to thinking about how obsessed everyone is at the moment with the cult of drift.
Now don’t be too hasty if you think [...]
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Posted in Turbocharged Tirades, tagged 180SX, 200SX, car, civic, decision, evo, honda, japanese, JDM blog, Lancer, Mitsubishi, nissan, NSX, silvia on March 20, 2008 | No Comments »
Okay, since I’m now living in another country and without a set of wheels, of course I’m going to need something soon - well, I don’t really need a car, more of the fact that I need to sate my inner thirst for a Japanese vehicle and I hate using my legs for transport unless [...]
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So I just left my annoyingly-cramped and non-airconditioned room in Johor Bahru so I could head over to City Square and grab some grub for dinner; nourishment which ended up being a rather good plate of carrot cake from one of the vendors in the food court on level five.
It seems that every time I [...]
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