1. Take two good pictures of your car with the front, side and rear clearly visible
2. Attach the pictures in an e-mail, or upload them and put the links in an e-mail
3. Add your name, age, residence and more info about your car (speclist, website, etc)
4. Send this e-mail to: dumpd@wanganwarriors.com

More info is coming soon…! Meanwhile you should visit the DUMPd facebook fanpage!

When you enter the shop, you imidiately notice the big white counter with the graffiti style “We love haters” sticker.

The name “Stickerdump” speaks for itself, but not only stickerjunkies are welcome to get their fix at the shop, graffiti artist as well are able to purchase their paint for any of their artwork.

Passing the counter, you’ll find a nice corner to welcome guests and customers. Again you notice not only stickers but a whole lot of other accessory such as hats, t-shirts and fancy number plate holders.

For a while now, Stickerdump has been an official dealer of Fatlace, Hellaflush & Illest merchandise; all the original stuff straight from the U.S.

Inne and Michiel taught us how stickers are made and about the manual labour and patience which is needed to prepare thousands of stickers. The plotters pre-cut the stickers, but every little redundant needs to be cut out by hand.

Over here you see the steps of a sticker being created. You can imagine smaller logo’s or complex figueres are a pain in the arse. But Stickerdump.com does this work with all their love and passion for you.

It does mean there are always a lot of remains of stickers. This doesn’t go into the garbage bin, but is used for this large stickerball. Started with one piece of left over sticker, now grown into an almost unmovable ball.

This is what it looks like on the work table.

The most known bodywork stickers in the time attack scene are provided by them as well. The recognisable Jeroentje.nl logos. Sticker decoration of this size is only for special cusomers and after consultation.

But the electronic toycars of the Jeroentje.nl team needed this too, no problem.

So with orders from all over Europe, this company is succesful and growing. The shop looks amazing and what used to be a bakery, is now a creative and colourful looking sticker house. They took care of everything, even the awesome parking signs.

To stay updated with the progress, you just need to like their facebook page. They post all the big updates and news on their wall.

We would like to thank Inne and Michiel for welcoming us to their shop. Thank you for providing Wangan Warriors with all the stickers and your support so far. We wish you good luck in the future and we look forward to working with eachother in the future.

- Rens Adams

Photos by Vincent Roos and Rens Adams

The Dutch army’s training camp was used to for one session of the Paradigit ELE rally last year. Over here you see second place winner of that day Jeroen Swaanen in his Subaru Impreza WRC.

Time attacks are pretty fun to watch. The Zandvoort circuit gives a nice scenery on a sunny day to photograph. This is Jeroen of Jeroentje.nl Tuning in his FD during the Japanese Auto Festival time attack session past spring.

The only time we saw Albert Klok Jr. in action on the TT circuit of Assen was at the Automax Streetpower event last year. More action in 2012?

There was enough action to see at the last Time Attack session on Super Sunday. Again a sunny day at the lovely Zandvoort circuit. Lennard Wander was having fun as you can see.

Our friend Bruce Morris is already planning his trackdays for the Time Attack season of 2012. This guy is going to do some real damage on the Dutch track, I promise.

We are expecting a lot of action from these Time Attack titans in this years sessions.

So wether we were hunting for decent stanced Japanese cars…

…or visiting competition races, all the events had some interesting action in store for us.

Speaking of action. There are quite some interesting projects to follow on our forum so we got in contact with some of them to do a photoshoot for our blog. This is a rollingshot of Thomas’ awsome classic Corolla.

Another forummember and friend of the club is Joep. His S13 is probably one of the cleanest Silvia’s out there. Captured in a nice autumn scenery by fellow Wangan Warrior Paul.

This might look like a very clean S2K. Well, it is but it also has a sad story to it. The owner of this Honda and RPM Vision foreman Dennis Kussendrager had some bad luck during his holiday. His car got damaged badly by a hailstorm. Iceballs the size of tennisballs ruined a lot of body work. Luckily Dennis didn’t get hurt and he fixed up his car very well!

Everywhere we went, we’ve met nice people. Jonathan McBrien is one of those JDM enthusiasts who we’ve met at the German Nürburgring. His K20 powered Civic project car is still going through a lot of changes.

This beauty was also spotted at a parking area near the Nordschleife, Dan Timpsons cool ass Silvia. You must love it too! Both of these guys were visiting the German Eiffel just like us. Mutual interest? No, mutual passion.

Even overseas guys like Simon Bradford drove his 580bhp R32 GT-R over here to drive some trackdays.

The list goes on and on of cool cars which we photographed. Jobert Brouns goes all the way with his WRC replica Impreza. The ultimate rally rooter!

And since we are covering everything in and around the Netherlands, we come across a lot of different styles and all of them are great. So wheter we’re capturing a clean FD…

…or a classic such as this Corolla 1200. Each and every other car is unique in its own way.

My favourite car feature was this icon. The Honda NSX. I spent a whole afternoon with the owner to photograph this car in the right way. It deserves a certain level of care and love if you own it, even while photographing it.

One of my favourite shots of Vincent Roos this year. Also a NSX spotted at the Japanese Classic Sunday. A lovely sunny day with amazing cars.

We’re currently following some projects to keep you readers out there posted with all the awesomeness that is going on over here in our tiny country.

We will be visiting some more companies to show you how good the tuning level is of our domestic market.

This article does not come to an end, this isn’t all we’ve done and it surely isn’t going to be the last. In fact there is a hell of a lot more coming this year. We get inspired by all the reactions and nice feedback we have got and we promise that 2012 will be an awesome year for our blog, for our club and for the fans out there. Thanks for all the support.

Who said there is no Japanese car culture over here?

- Rens Adams

After giving it some well needed and long thoughts, I decided to move on to a new S-body, the S15 Spec S. I opted for a Spec S as I will be swapping a RB25DET engine into it.

Having consulted with some import companies and searching around by myself, I decided to take the big step and import a car on my own. I’ve seen it done before by fellow Wangan Warriors Skippy and Ruud. Searching around on the usual places like Pistonheads and Driftworks for some weeks, Peter ran across an ad of a S15 in Ireland. After mailing back and forth with the owner, I decided to buy the car and arrange the trip to pick it up.

December 9th 5.00am, the day and time Peter (PeeSx) and I left from our home city of Nijmegen in The Netherlands.

Excuse my sleepy head, it was 5am after all. After a 1.5 hour train ride toward Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, we got off the train, checked into our flight and waited 2 hours before we could board the plane. After a 30min delay we finally took off.

We landed in Cork, Ireland, 1.5 hours later. Luckily for us this is the same city where the S15 was located. Being picked up by the guy who sold me the car and his dad, we drove off to their home where we were pleasantly greeted by this view.

After some chit chat and the typical cup of tea, we did the business end of the sale and were ready to set off for the big part of the journey. The -long- drive home. With much traveling ahead, we decided to get the car filled up before we set off.

Our final goal of the day; Dublin, a 2.5 hour drive from Cork.
I must say driving a RHD car isn’t the hardest part. I’ve done that before in The Netherlands. But switching from LHD to RHD, from the right lane to the left lane and driving in a new country at the same time takes some getting used to.

We quickly got to the motorway and from there on things were much easier.

Peter had the time to enjoy the scenery of Ireland.

We decided to grab some food at a small restaurant before we continued on our journey.

After arriving in Dublin, we found out our ferry to Liverpool was running late. Quite the bummer but it gave us some time to walk around the city. We were able to leave the car on a guarded parking lot which belonged to the docks and we headed out to the city center..

..which turned out to be decorated for the holidays. We ended up on a holiday market where we enjoyed a proper hamburger off the grill.

Once we returned to the docks we checked in and were told the ferry was running even later. We started to fear for our Eurotunnel train connection the next day in England. We decided to just leave things as they where and hope we would make it it in time the next day.
Finally having boarded the ferry about 3 hours late we rushed to our cabin. We rented a cabin so would could grab some well needed sleep.

Waking up the next day, we docked at around 8:00. 2 hours later than expected. Having just a little over 5 hours to get from Liverpool to Folkestone, we jumped into the car and started driving.
England welcomed us with this nice sunrise while we left Liverpool.

Peter took over the wheel while we filled up the car again and drove the next part through England.

With Peter behind the wheel and 3.5 hours of non stop driving we made it to Folkestone. Pleasantly surprised we were even able catch an earlier train to France. This was due to the fact that we only had one 5min stop in the entire country. Back home we had calculated an extra hour for stops and a 50min buffer to get to the train. All this extra time was enough to make up for lost time on the ferry.

I took over the wheel again when we arrived in Calais, France, and drove the remainder of the trip.
From here on the trip was pretty much straight forward. No trains or ferry’s to catch anymore. Just driving the car home without having to rush.

After about 30min of driving we already entered Belgium, which was very noticable as the roads are terrible there. After 1.5 hours of shaking and potholes we finally crossed the Dutch border again at around 5.30pm. Driving for over 6 hour got us hungry so we decided to grab a ‘proper’ meal at the McDonalds that is located just at the border.

Having finished our meal we set off for the last hour and a half of driving to our home in Nijmegen. And so, after 39 hours, 1106km of driving and a whole lot of km’s by public transport, we returned home. It was a long but smooth trip with a great goal. Getting the S15 home.

Since the trip, the car has been imported to Holland officially and I started working on the RB25DET swap. Be sure to check out my project updates on the forum.

- Author: Rob Meulenbroeks
- Photography: Peter Graansma

To begin with, most of us love projects and all the excitement and challenges that come with a build up of any car. In this photo you see John a.k.a. Skippy working on his RB25DET powered R32. At that moment we had just hoisted in the RB25 into the engine bay and finished up for that day. This year it will shine again like never before.

Johan, better known as the Barracuda or Kaptain Iglo is someone who has experienced many ups and downs in the past year but he has the character to continue until his goal is reached.

Patience and skill is the key to the succes of his project. Imagine that you have to wrap your own car with no practice what so ever. His Impreza has it’s very own story told in this blog

Two projects could continue after the break down of this AE86. All the component parts are used for the KP61 project of Kay and the AE86 you see in the back of Patrick. Both project cars have a lot of rust, as soon as that is fixed, the build up can start.

Dirty hands like these will do the trick!

Peter is a busy guy with his S13. Always looking for improvement and always sparkling with is flaked purple paint job. Lovely!

Noud a.k.a. Kypski did quite some laps on the Nordschleife this year. His driving skills improved a lot in my opinion. His RB25DET powered S13 is getting some love in the garage and will definitely burn rubber again in 2012.

Given that a certain quantity of Wangan Warriors is addicted to the Nurburgring and its environment, we’ve spent a lot of tiime over there in 2011. Besides the weekend and daytrips, some of us stayed there for a week this summer. Lovely holiday houses like these made our stay, whenever we weren’t cruising around or driving the track, very pleasant.

Kay made sure his daily driven Civic was track-ready for that holiday. It was a joy to see another Wangan Warrior on the famous Nürburgring.

This photo represents our love for that famous track. If we weren’t on it then we could spend hours watching cars come by and talk about it. Maybe even spot some cars to photograph when they roll up the parking area. Well captured by Noud.

Imported from Ireland, the latest Wangan Warriors project. Rob bought this S15 and decided to sell his S14a after years of fun with it. The S15 will be running a RB25DET.

Wangan Warriors has also welcomed two new members this year. Bob’s Glanza has almost 200bhp to move that light car around the corners.

Ruud also joined the family with his Supra. This one is already sold and Ruud is looking for another Japanese beauty to replace it with.

Most of us take projects very seriously and modify their cars a lot. Others keep it simple with a set of coilovers and some small ajustments. After all we’re one big family that shares ideas, creativity, knowledge, love for cars and friendship.

There’s enough to talk about regarding every project within Wangan Warriors. Just follow us on Facebook to stay updated with all the changes. One thing is certain; projects are going to being finished, blogs will be written along with some nice photography and the Japanese car scene will be represented by us in 2012.
We’ll see you guys out there!

- Rens Adams

Photography by Rens Adams, Noud Fieten, Vincent Roos, Paul Krauth and Peter Graansma

All of us at Wangan Warriors wish you a merry Christmas and all the best for 2012!

You’ll find the company in Malden near the city of Nijmegen and it’s noticeable by the large RSP Banner on the outside and probably a whole bunch of import Honda’s parked in front of the building.

They have a rather big working space with all the decent tools you need like a hidraulic lift, tyre changer wheel balancer, three watch-dogs and much more. The place is decorated with brand banners such as Tein suspension, Toyo Tyres, Sparco, Works, ACT and the list goes on and on.

This is the master office/entrance/hangout/coffeeroom, you name it. The place where all orders come in online or by phone and all the questions you have concerning parts, projects, service, prices or anything at all will be answered from this room. On this photo you see Ian and Tom.

Here you see Tonny working on his Honda S2000. It’s pretty much stock at the moment but it does have a almost complete facelift conversion.

In the corner some parst are stored for sale, projects and customers. For example this whole bunch of exhausts…

… and Tonny proudly showed me this J’s Racing Titanium FX-Pro exhaust.

Another decent S2K. This is Ian’s pride and joy wich is full of Spoon parts since the car was bought from one of the employees of Type One Garage, one of the Spoon dealerships from Japan. It has full ajustable Spoon suspension, Spoon LSD, Spoon clutch and rolling on SSR LM9 Vienna’s and many more goodies of course.

The F20C is out for maintenance and it looks pretty damn clean is it is right there. More power, extreme offset, repaint in the future? Who knows Ian is keeping it as a secret until his project is done.

There is definitely some stuff going on in here as you can see, cant wait to see te result and show you people this car in a full feature on our blog.

This is a special DC2. At first because any JDM integra rules…

… secondly it’s the first Dutch DC2 with a KA20A engine conversion built by Rising Sun Performance. This example is fully track prepared to do some damage on the tarmac.

Another highly appreciated Integra, the DC5. This is Tom’s car and he has some circuit ambitions with this car. The suspension has been upgraded with a set of Tein Mono Flex coilovers, Toyo R888 tyres on the front, FN2 Gearbox, J’s Racing 60RS Exhaust and some more modifications.

Enough to conquer the second place in the Semi Pro Street class during a Time Attack session on the TT circuit of Assen. And that for a first time track experience. Not bad! At the last Time Attack session of this year at Zandvoort, Tom won the third place in the Pro class.

So that’s it folks. This is Rising Sun Performance, the people behind this company and their cars. I’m looking forward to follow these projects and photograph them in the future. We’ll certainly keep everybody updated.

Rob and I would like to thank the RSP crew for their time and we will definitely meet again. It was a awfully rainy day and I certainly didn’t mind spending a few hours inside at Rising Sun Performance.

- Rens Adams

Photos by Rens Adams

This is a tipical in your face picture. Don’t underestimate the potentials of these hairdresser’s cars. The owner Stefan is properly modifying his Miata. Circuit ambitions in the future?

One of the cleanest Levins out there with real SSR dori2′s. The owners is a forummember as well for quite a while now.

A nicely stanced S14a is an absolute pleasure to see and photograph.

A Lexus just needs a VIP look. This car has style, classiness and pure character. The small curtains inside topped it all off. Hope to see this car next year again.

This is the Civic Type R FN2 of another new forum member. This one is lowered with a set of KW Variant 1 coilovers and runs about 230 bhp.

Some people love to modify their cars in every detail others just like a little touch of pink and Hello Kitty.

Everybody remembers the thick fog but fortunately it didn’t interfere with the outcome of the visitors.

This Impreza outshined because of its sound and aggressive looks.

Early in the day of the meeting there were a few Polish visitors. They asked when the next Wangan Warrios meeting is to be organised and had to leave early. Cool to see enthousiasts from different countries. Most of the time there are quite a few visitors from Belgium. Next year more Polish visitors?

This Rally replica Toyota Corolla is a familiar car at the Wangan Warriors meetings. With that rollcage and exterior it looks damn aggressive. I think it is the 3rd time I’ve spotted this one. The owner is signed op to the forum as well.

I hope you guys enjoyed Vincent’s photographs and a review on the meeting a couple of weeks later.
See you next year!

- Rens Adams

Photos by Vincent Roos

Coincidentally, I have quite some links to this tank and the story behind it. As a little kid I’ve always been interested in WW2, especially D-Day, the Battle of the Bulge and the liberation of The Netherlands. I’ve also visited the above mentioned square a couple of time with the scouts and even with my girlfriend, where the picture that is shown above, is taken. Also, I’ve been using the nickname “Barracuda” for about 16 years on the Internet and as an ingame nickname.

Actually wrapping the Subaru in the army green colour it has now and putting the stickers and decals on weren’t what I planned on doing at first. The flat green color was chosen because I just wanted to make something more… unique. Flat black, flat white, everything has already been done so many times before…

When we were in the process of wrapping, my girlfriend saw a picture of the tank in a photo album and told me that it might look cool to put decals on the Subaru that are just like the ones on the Barracuda. And a plan was born. I decided to make the Subaru a rolling tribute to the tank in Bastogne, and the fallen soldiers that fought really hard to liberate Europe.

This Subaru started its automotive life back inearly 2000 in virgin white. But as the paint was going bad over the years, I’ve decided to wrap this car and call it The Barracuda in the spring of 2011. A how-to on wrapping a car can also be found on this webiste. I have adjusted a few things such as the font and the positioning of the stickers, however the decals completely match the ones on the tank in Bastogne.

The result of wrapping the car turned out to be amazing thanks to Vincent Roos, fellow Wangan Warrior and photographer who also shot these great photos.

Obviously, the engine hasn’t been left stock either. During my way over to the Nürburgring in October 2009, the stock engine gave its last breath and I started rebuilding another engine. What started off as wanting to do a couple of adjustments, turned into what you’re looking at right now.

The engine has been built with having a quick spool up and fast throttle response in mind. At first, the goal was to go for around 450 bhp but I’ve adjusted this goal to a lower 350 bhp. I would still be able to keep the stock 5 speed gear box instead of having to upgrade to a 6 speed gear box along with other serious adjustments. Want to know what has been changed? You can do so over here my member page. Here you will find a recently updated list with modifications.

The current engine management should deliver somewhere around 320 bhp on a weight of 1190 kilos. Resulting in a 0 to 60 (mph) / 100 (kmh) time of circa 4.4 seconds.

Interior wise, I’ve tried to be as minimalistic as possible with everything I need close to me. In order to get it like that I’ve made quite some custom parts myself. For example the gauge holder on the steering column, the display holder on the steering wheel, an aluminium centre console, lenghtened gear knob, power output in the glove box, etc.

The engine is controlled by an Apex’i Power FC and Commander, mapped by Joep en Ismail.

The aggressive look of the car is thanks to customised Morette headlights. Originally, these lights have two lamps per side, one for normal lights and one for high beam, however the lamps on the inside have been replaced by air ducts and the lamps on the outside are replaced by semi-clear H4 lights with city lights. The corner lights (originally city lights) aren’t being used anymore and have been spraypainted in the same colour as the lamp units.

The original STI spoiler on the trunk generates enough downforce to maintain a steady ride. At first I planned on going for the spoilerless look, but I missed quite some stability on high speed runs so I decided to put it back on.

As I’m writing this, the car has been partially taken apart as it’s waiting for a couple of updates. The engine will once again be taken out and apart to improve some things as well as giving the engine bay a good tidying. This means cleaning the plenum, respraying the strutbar, replace blue hoses by red hoses, a little wire tuck, rerouting of the fuel lines, adding a digital fuel pressure gauge, removing the Knocklink, upgrading the oil hoses of the catch can and an allround cleaning in the engine bay.

Here I would like to thank Vincent Roos and his father once again for taking the amazing pictures as well as all the help he has offered the past months! Amazing!

- Johan van Tongeren

Photos by Vincent Roos

Looks good doesn’t it? And so does the restaurant. If you’re ever to visit Limburg or Nordrhein Westfalen, then you should really consider having dinner over at Il Genio’s. It’s situated on the Roermonder Straße 157 in Karken, a minute from the Dutch/German border. They have just renovated and expanded the building and it’s now nicer than ever. You can get anything from delicious pastas to very large pizzas if you’re very hungry.

As you can see, it looks rather stock from the outside. Other wheels, an aftermarket bonnet and an Invidia exhaust and various other small upgrades.

There was a bit of a story behind the exhaust. In Germany, everything has to be approved by the TÜV (more or less comparable to MOT). However, the police thought his wing was aftermarket because it wasn’t noted in the papers belonging to the car. Also, they fell over the exhaust and he had to have it checked at TÜV in a certain period of time. Luckily he did, at the cost though of buying and mounting a new exhaust.

Stoptech brakes help him stop quickly time after time after time. Rens and I were invited to drive along for a bit. He wanted to show us what the car was capable of. Going through every gear like mad and having amazing stopping power actually made me rather nauseous. That was a first time experience for me as well.

I’ve always had a weak for these fins. It gives the car just that extra touch.

I’m sure these canards help improve grip as the owner visits a track days every now and then like Spa Francourchamps or the Nürburgring.

From this aftermarket carbon fibre bonnet we’re going to have a look in the engine bay. The bonnet by the way really sits there for a reason. After our drive-along-run, I could literally see the “waves” of hot air rise up from under the bonnet which looked very cool.

As you can see no expenses have been spared with this carbon fibre air intake.

There it is. This engine is far from stock as it went from 2.0 litre to 2.3 litre and is being pushed by a massive turbo. The turbo runs at 2 bar constantly and that delivers the massive figures which are shown below.

It delivers a whopping 541.6 bhp and 647.4 Nm. Enough said.

How can we refuse a nice portrait like this.

It’s a really impressive car and whenever you see something like this in your rear view mirror, it’s just best to move to the right. And if it’s this car in particular just do so, you honestly don’t stand a chance.

As it was a very nice and sunny afternoon, we decided to do some rolling shots. Rens has very well captured the beauty of this car when it’s in action.

This photoshoot comes to an end at the spot where back in the days would be a toll booth. Luckily it’s much easier to access Germany nowadays which makes it easier for us to go over and enjoy a proper pizza.

This once again shows that a passion for cars can be found anywhere by anyone.

Thank you for taking your time even though you were very busy. We both really enjoyed shooting this car and of course the driving experience you gave us. Thanks again and I’m sure we’ll meet soon again!

- Noud Fieten

Photos by Rens Adams and Noud Fieten

As you might have already seen on the Flickr page, this car still looks quite stock but it isn’t, not even close. I’ve always had a lot of respect for people who are able to make their cars stand out by only doing minor changes. When you see those cars, you know right away that they’re not stock, but it will take you a little bit of time to figure out what exactly has been left standard and what hasn’t.

This car has got quite some history to it as well. In fact, when Paul and I were taking shots, Joep was doing his first couple of kilometres with this engine, it had just run about 900 kilometres. What’s even more cool is that Joep rebuilt the engine himself, talk about craftsmanship! Not only does it look stunning, being programmed with Nistune it produces somewhere around 300 hp! A very nice number for a “simple” 1.8 litre engine.

Joep has always had an eye for detail and it shows in this picture. From freshly painted valve covers to resprayed heat shields and even shiney new bolts.

The cars appearance is very subtle and very delicate. The only thing that one will notice directly are the amazing wheels. They are Ultralite Nürburgring and are being stopped by Z32 calipers with Brembo brake discs both front and rear.

Another cool detail are the taillights. They are Lexus-look taillights, which are not much appreciated in the S13-scene, but by spraying them red, Joep has managed to give it a clean, sexy and modern look.

Perfect combination, being photographed while running in your new engine.

Have a look inside and you’ll see more of the fine detailing. In the glove box you won’t find old petrol station receipts or empty water bottles, that’s been replaced by an Apex’i multichecker and Phormula knock-analyser which have been built in very nicely.

“If I need fresh air, I’ll open a window.” Is what Joep must have thought when replacing the fan outlets by gauges that show boost, oil pressure and oil temperature.

I wonder if anyone is able to spot what is different to stock in this picture, other than the gauges and the steering wheel. Hint: Another very fine and delicate detail.

As I’m typing the repo, my respect for this car is growing even bigger. The longer you spend on analysing the details, the more you get to appreciate it. Who needs aftermarket bodykits and extremely powerfull engines when standing out can be this easy. You’ve done a great job on your S13, Joep. Definitely an icon on the Dutch highways.

Thanks for having us and please keep us updated with any progress!

- Noud Fieten

Photos by Paul Krauth and Noud Fieten

A proper organisation was a necessity as we were expecting a bit over 150 cars.  It was possible to use the same meeting location of last year but we wanted to attract the attention to the center area this year.

All sorts of cars rolled up the parking lot. From higly modified awesome Imprezas to ordinary daily drivers to exclusive classics.

Speaking of classics. It was the fist time in my life I saw a Suzuki SC100GX. To be fair I had never heard of it before but thanks to your presence at our meeting I was able to broaden my automotive horizon.

And not to forget the LHD Levin!

Belgium was well represented again ofcourse. One of the cool cars that our southern neighbours brought with them was this retro Honda Civic. Just amazing!

And since we featured a cool NSX last week. I was kind of hoping that a NSX would show up as well. And it did! The same white NSX as last year if I’m not mistaking?

Stickerbombs are getting pretty common in all car genres. Even stickerbomb-film exists. So stop saving stickers for years!

Clear statement made by this Impreza owner. I couldn’t agree more.

Stance is going to a whole other level these days. This cool 350Z is the living proof of that. But that wasn’t the only well stanced car at the meeting. A very cool VIP lexus was present as well!

This was one of my favourite cars at the meeting. He was also at our meeting in De Meern so it was cool to see it again in Oosterhout. Very nice Miata.

Many people were pleased with the attendance of the Honda S2K’s. Many credits to you guys. This particular S2000 outshined the most I think.

Not too many bonnets were opened. Or I was at the wrong place at the wrong time, who knows. This engine bay did got my attention. It looks very clean. Rising sun FTW!

Our very own member Johan a.k.a. Kapitein Iglo had his engine finally mapped. You’ve probably seen some cool video’s on our Facebook page. Quite some people checked out his Impreza and a lot of photographs were taken.

The fog made the meeting atmosphere kind of cosy. It didn’t bother to many visitors, so I’ve heared.

This picture tells a little bit more than what you’re probably seeing. There is some Wangan folly in this photo. Check out Peter with that sticker on his sunglasses. Forget the sticker, sunglasses on a day like this? And the always enthousiastic clubfriend Kevin posing for me. Make sure you check out his project page on our forum! He’s taking good care of his RX7 FC.

Much respect to StickerDump for fixing us a new load of stickers. So next time you see a Wangan Warriors just ask for one! Johan was the first to put one on his ride.

I’m getting myself one of those next time I visit your new store!

The people of Showoff Imports came in force. Lined up for their well deserved admiration.

A car with status. The Evo X sitting on Rota’s…

…and when I walked away I couldn’t withstand another peak to this car.

Keep an eye on this guy. This is 7Tune blogger Allard van Grafhorst. Here he’s updating Facebook to show the world the awsome cars of the meeting visitors. So make sure you check 7Tune for Allard’s full coverage on the Wangan Warriors meeting.

We can reveil the news that this meeting is going to be an annual happening since we’ve how had 2 successess in a row. Thanks for all the kind reactions so far on Facebook and on our forum! You guys made this meeting by showing up, having fun with us and you showed your appriciation towards our club in an inutterable way.

We as Wangan Warriors were bestowed with satisfaction and joy thanks to all the visitors. See you next year!

Wangan Warriors

- Rens Adams

Photos by Rens Adams

As soon as I heard that Eric was intrested in a photoshoot for our blog, I was pretty psyched and needed to check out some locations for the shoot that very next day. Fellow Wangan Warrior John a.k.a. Skippy came along to assist where needed and to drive for rollingshots.

So we found a nice flat road to take some shots. We were lucky that the weather was so nice, it’s a beautifull sight to see the lengendary NSX in action.

With that view and the sound of the 3.2i Vtec engine is an absolute pleasure to witness. The engine isn’t stock anymore. It went tthrough some slight changes by mounting a Mugen intake manifold, other camshafts, Pro Alloy radiator and an extra oil cooler. It now runs about 320bhp.

The front brakes are upgraded with Move-It Brembo GT2′s.

The exterior of the NSX is partly responsable for it’s iconic status. This one has a WingsWest front lip and sideskirts from Downforce. That proper set of wheels are Volk Racing Challenge II GunMetal rims and that will be 18′ on the front and 19′ on the back with Kumho tyres.

Eric doesn’t like the lack of carbon fibre on his car. The exterior got styled with the carbon VIS-Racing bonnet…

…Type R rear spoiler and even the stock automatic antenna was replaced by this small electronic one from a Honda S2000. Well done!

It’s lowered with Bilstein’s and H&R springs which results in a hightreduction of 4 cm. So you can imagine why Eric doesn’t like bumpy roads. You’re damn right!

The stock seats where removed for a set of red Bride Brix II Racing seats…

… and also the steeringwheel was changed for this Momo sports version.

The warm sphere later in the afternoon made the view on the car more interesting. You can look at this lovely scene for days without losing any appetite or pleasure.

After the sun was almost set, we drove to another spot which gives a whole other impression to the car. It gave the Honda a much more agressive look.

The Grand Prix White paintwork is in contrast with the dark industrial environment.

It’s hard to quite photographing an impressive car like the Honda NSX. Like every day, this Sunday also came to an end and John and I drove back home with smiles on our faces. Cars like these make my love for automotive photography even greater and make sure I will stay enjoying it.

I’d like to thank the owner Eric Ooms again for his time. You’re on top of the foodchain with that NSX!

- Rens Adams

Photos by Rens Adams

When we arrived at the parking lot we looked around and had a little chat with Bruce Morris. When Bruce was busy with a tyrechange, our attention was attracted by Lisa’s Skyline. It basically invited us to go over there and take a closer look.

After we found out that there was a RB30 under the bonnet we invited her for a photoshoot. Lisa has been the owner for several years and many things have changed during that time. She told me that the car still has to be mapped with this engine.

As you can see the exterior has been through quite a change. The idea behind the stickers is pretty simple: to outshine more during time attack sessions and track days. Lisa was a little bored of the simple black collour and needed some variation.

Another exterior amendment is this Nismo with an ATTKD spoiler extension.

The owner tries to keep the R33 as light as possible. The proof of that are these ultralite A-tech wheels with toyo R888 tyres.

As you can see the interiour is far from stock. It’s fully stripped. Lisa has a FIA licenced six point rollcage, some fancy suede GTR stitched handbrake and gear gaitor covers, Blitz electronic turbo timer…

… and a set of comfy Sparco Pro2000 bucket seats.

The stock gauge cluster is almost the only thing that has been kept stock.

The power that keeps this thing rolling lays in the enginebay and the SARD external fuelling system with 3 external pumps has been installed the upgrade the former fuelsystem. The suspension has been upgraded with GAB fully adjustable coilovers.

Check out all the Tomei, RSP and HKS goodies in the added speclist.

Garret GT4088r single turbo set-up for some extra air. This fine piece of technique runs thanks to the VIPEC engine management systeem.

Make sure you check all the little details in the speclist below the article. I would like to tank Lisa for here time. See you again on the tracks some day!

- Vincent Roos & Rens Adams

Photos by Vincent Roos

Speclist:

Exterior
400r replica front splitter
LED front indicators in clear covers
smoked nismo side repeaters
bespoke venting in bonnet
Nismo carbon B pillar covers
Nismo carbon spoiler end caps
ATTKD spoiler extensions
Nismo rear side skirt spats
graphics, lots of them
ultralite atech alloy wheels with Toyo 888 semi slick tyres
Ganador wing mirrors

Brake system
Alcon 6 pots with very large discs and pagid race pads on the front
endless race pads and grooved discs on rear
braided lines all round with high temp fluid

Suspension
GAB fully adjustable coilovers
rear adjustable camber arms
front camber bushes
whiteline suspension bushes

Interior
totally stripped out
Sparco Pro2000 race seats
FIA race harness for both
fitted fire extinguisher (lifeline)
Nismo leather gearnob
suede GTR stitched handbrake
gear gaitor covers
Blitz electronic turbo timer
FIA welded6 point rollcage
Momo leather steering wheel
Greddy profec B boost controller

Engine
JIC full carbon strut brace
Garage Defend Carbon rad cover
HKS intercooler system with hard pipes
large Alloy radiator with Trust rad cap
SFS silicone hoses throughout
Trust oil cooler system
Sard adj fuel regulator
Tomei fuel rail
1000cc fuel injectors
Garret GT4088r single turbo
RSP induction kit
RSP special head work (lots of porting and polishing and other work)
RB30 block
Ross crank damper
Nitto oil pump
N1 water pump
RSP fusebox cover
RSP oil catchtank
Trust drag exhaust system from downpipe back
RSP downpipe
Trust manifold
Vipec engine system management

Fuelling
Sard external fuelling system with 3 external pumps

I asked Simon what he was running under the bonnet and after some guessing he opened it up.

The GT-R isn’t running the normal RB26 but a converted RB27 stroker engine with 1000cc injectors and two nismo t04b Turbos. Pretty awesome! It has about 580bhp and 530Nm torque. With that information in mind, you’re probably wondering how it sounds, check out this video: Link

With this set up you obviously need some proper handling. The Ohlins suspension, titanium strutbrace under the bonnet and the whiteline front and back swaybars…

…combined with the six point rollcage keep the chassis stiff.

On the front the GT-R has K-sport 8 pots and the rear 6 pots brakes. The wheels are a set of 18inch tsw thruxton’s with toyo R888 for some decent grip on the track.

As the commander of this battleship, Simon of course did some laps on the Zolder circuit. Here he is on the long straight next to the pitlane. It’s quite a view though.

We didn’t have media acces but that doesn’t mean we weren’t searching for places to photograph from.

Simon captures his own action with this digital video camera mounted on the rollcage.

If we take a further look at the interior we’ll find an OMP steeringwheel, cobra susuka pro seats with 5 point trs harness and it’s unstripped.

The Greddy temperature meters are hidden in the glove compartiment. The rest of the interior in its neat condition kind of amazes me. Except for the broken fan on the dashboard. Well that’s the result of a stiff car on Belgium roads. It broke due of the vibrations.

It’s kind of Simon’s daily when it comes to track driving. He has another project car at home but the R32 is clean and pretty reliable on the roads.

It’s no problem to drive this thing to the Nurburgring, drive a few laps over there and drive it back to England without a brakedown. The dream of everyone!

We thank Simon, Bruce and all the other guys who were at the Zolder Circuit for a pleasant day. See you next year on the Dutch tracks!

- Rens Adams

Photos by Rens Adams

Let me intoduce you to Jobert Brouns. His attraction lays with his Subaru Impreza with a WRC look and everything about rally. His car is his ongoing project. Probably like many other projects, it will never end.

The exterior has been reformed with a Aerys/L’aunsport WRC bodykit and a whole bunch of WRC style stickers.

The Subaru sits on gold 18” OZ Prodrive P1′s with Falken FK452 tyres. This model wheels aren’t in production anymore so they’ll be more exclusive in the future.

Like every real rally car you’ll find the names of the pilot and navigator with the flag of the country they’re representing. Mr. Brouns represents Limburg all the way!

The suspension also contains a set of Tein Flex coilovers with ajustable camberplates.

The two tone WRC version spoiler finishes the rear end of the car. This is probably the eyecatcher when you’re driving behind this evil machine.

A lot of stock parts have been removed to reach the goal of making this car look like a real rally car. Like the stock mirrors have been replaced with these carbon WRC ones.

When we take a look at the interior we also find some modifications. But I couldn’t mis the sparco/subaru jacket with al its matching colours and logos.

Combine that with a proud owner or any other hardcore rally fan and it might look a little like this.

The stock seats made place for two Cobra Sazuka bucketseats with 4 point Sablet harness to keep you in one place. The rest of the interior is fully stripped. Rollcage in the future?

Under the bonnet we find a pretty much stock engine with a HKS dump-valve.

I met up with Jobert again to capture this thing in action. Resulting in a few cool rollingshots.

And a little closer!

Afterwards we talked about different rally events across Europe and Jobert told us all kind of funny an cool stories. Sometimes the marchals can’t tell if he’s a visitor or a competator in the rally event and they send him all the way to the start of a parcour. This proves how succesfull the WRC look is.
He showed a bunch of project pictures and rally movies on his phone and we lingered at the photoshoot location until the sun was completely set. Ending a nice evening with a great rally enthousiast. It was a pleasure getting aquainted with you Jobert. Hopefully you’ll come to our end of year meeting in Oosterhout!

- Rens Adams

Photos by Rens Adams and Noud Fieten

This RB26 barely came alive but once it did, and you wouldn’t say by the looks of the engine bay, it ran so smoothly, you can’t even imagine.

These guys from Denmark drove quite a while to get here. I have loads of respect for drivers who, next to driving the car, also prepare their rides. Dedication all the way.

Another reason of why I love walking around in the pits is to get to know all kinds of techniques and ways of mounting, installing parts or even see what sort of brands they use. It’s not only cool to look at, it broadens your own horizon as well. Have a look at these R888′s wrapped around Blitz wheels providing the grip to keep going at extreme angles.

And ofcourse, what I’ve probably seen more than anything was old, used rubber.

But what happens if a team needs new tyres? I didn’t see any big trucks. That was because, unlike million dollars teams, they used their drift cars as a working horse as well. And to that, I take off my hat. Not just because they drive around in drift cars to pick up parts and so on, but also because they’re on a very tight budget as the most teams are just a group of friends and they still get everything sorted.

Another car that caught my eye was the S13. Next to all the bangers this thing looked really clean. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve got nothing against bangers because they go sideways just as easy!

What I’m going to say now might get some puzzled faces, but the drifting itself was less enjoyable than walking around in the pit area. The track itself had a great lay out with beautiful elevation after a tight right turn, so it wasn’t that either. I just think that getting up close to the cars and chatting with the drivers was far more interesting than seeing them burn rubber at a distance. I can’t hold back pictures like that though so here’s some Nissan and Toyota goodness going for it all the way.

I, as well as the guys who were with me, had a great day and I couldn’t be further from the truth if I say that every car event has got its own ambiance. With that I don’t mean the actual driving, but everything that goes on around it, the preparation, the effort and the dedication and all of that will show off on the track no matter what.

- Noud Fieten

Photos by Noud Fieten

All sorts of cars competed with eachother during the sprints. American muscle, German diesels, Civics on full slicks and some fast Impreza’s dominated the tarmac. Rather fast times were driven on the quarter mile.

This FD used to be driven by Purple Monkey Engeneering manager, Jeff. It’s good to see that the new owner uses this machine properly.

While I was walking across the clubpaddock I saw a group of people around one certain car. I was pretty curious what they were looking at so I walked over there. Behind the wall of enthousiasts I found a pretty damn nice Toyota Aristo.

Sometimes I browse on the Internet and I’ll find all kinds of VIP looks and styles. Some are better than the other and some are just overdone. The owner of this Aristo did it right in my opinion. Therefore the LIKE -card!

I will always admire aggressive looking Evo’s…

…as well as nice stanced Z’s like this one!

Here’s Lennard Wander warming up in his S14a by sliding through some turns. There was a lot of action during the Time Attack sessions. Unfortunately quite some accidents happened on the track. Good luck to everybody with any damage on their car!

Gijs Ende took first place in the Time Attack Extreme class. He basically made no mistakes on the track and had no technical problems. Others weren’t that lucky… Well, that’s racing.

Congratulations to you Gijs!

Also, a lot of my credits go to the runner-up Robin Duxburry who came all the way from the UK.

Jeroen Sterke did a great job in the Super Pro Street class. Despite some engine problems with is FD3S, he still made it to the finals and made sure Kevin Go didn’t finish first.

Another winner that day was Robert Dijkkkamp in his Honda Civic. He won first place in the Pro Street class.

All in all it was a nice day with amazing race teams and a lot of car enthusiasts. And again Japanese performance rules! This was the last Time Attack session of 2011 and you’ll definitely find me near the tracks in 2012. Looking forward to it!

- Rens Adams

Photos by Rens Adams

The thing about this Evo is, it doesn’t need a lot of modifications to get respect. Just a few details are enough to finish the cool looks.

I admire a few carbon parts on a car. Like this heat shield. This Lancer also has a Blitz Nur-Spec R exhaust.

And also the carbon NACA scoop has its function and its look…

I don’t care if you put real Ralliart mud flaps on it or just these, it puts that little bit of emphasis on what this car stands for and is good at.

And since we were on a road with very little traffic, we didn’t bother anybody while we were driving back and forth to take rolling shots of Benjamin’s Lancer.

And this shot from the side, taken by fellow Wangan Warrior Paul.

Ben upgraded his suspension with a set of KW Variant 3 coilovers and Ralliart topmounts. He even has a sunroof which is rather exclusive on these Lancers.

Underneath the bonnet we find a stock engine with a Turbosmart dual port dumpvalve…

… and a HKS Racing suction kit.

Benjamin, we hope you like this special blog and the pictures. We appreciate your activity on our forum! Hopefully you’ll join us when we go to any future meetings. And please keep us posted with any project updates!

- Rens Adams

Photos by Rens Adams and Paul Krauth

At first Vincent and I didn’t notice John’s Civic because our attention was attracted by a Silvia as we drove by a parking area near the Nurburgring. When we parked over there we saw a completely track prepared Honda with a few custom parts which make the exterior look a little ghetto. Nevertheless it looks damn nice!

John fabricated custom arch extentions and a front lip. You can also see some lightweight parts like the carbon bonnet,  Spoon carbon mirrors and a rear spoiler for some downforce on the track.

Speaking of track… Since John was visiting the Nürburgring, just like us, we also spotted him while he was doing some laps. It looked great out there!

Well, to be able to drive a proper lap you need some power or some handling. Mr. Mcbrien from Cambridge decided for both. Let’s have a look in the enginebay.

In there we find a K-pro’ed, fully tuned K20A DC5 egine with 224bhp. This thing will not stay in its place by itself but it does with OBX engine mounts.

The interior is also quite a piece of art. It has an OMP 6 point blue painted rollcage and two bride fixed bucket seats to begin with. You can also see that the stock door panels were removed and replaced with aluminium plates for weight saving.

When you take a look in the boot you won’t find any groceries or girl panties. No, you’ll find steel braided fuellines attached to a new 30 litre petrol tank. Pretty awesome!

And what is the meaning of this fine piece of machinery without a proper set of wheels and tyres. Pretty known wheels for you people, Rota grid V’s 15×8 et0 with Toyo 205/45r15 T1R tyres. The handling is also optimised by the BC racing coilovers and front and rear strutbraces.

Photo by Rens Adams

You don’t have to be an average Honda enthousiast to like this. I think there is almost nothing about this car you can dislike. Probably like most readers and viewers on our Flickr page, I have great deal of respect for the owner and driver John McBrien. Thank you for your time at the Nordschleife and we are proud to feature cars like this on our blog. Hopefully we’ll meet again in the future so we can see the progress on your car. I Hope you like the feature.

- Rens Adams

Photos by Vincent Roos and Rens Adams

Speclist:

Engine:
K20A DC5 engine
Obx engine mounts
F1 racing stage 3 clutch
HKS oil cooler kit
Hamp oil filter
Obx fuel rail
Pace products custom radiator
Revotec fan controller kit
Devoted 11″ slim line fan
PRO alloy motorsport custom air box
PRO alloy oil catch tank
K tuned power steering delete kit
K tuned manifold
Fujitsubo mid section
Spoon N1 backbox
Hondata K pro (by the time it’s published)

Interior:
Bride fixed bucket seat on buddyclub ultra low seat rail
Takata Harness
DC2 integra dash
Omp suede wheel
Defi oil temp, oil pressure, water temp gauges Sport comp rev counter
Baffled 30 litre fuel cell
Bosch 044 fuel pump
Sytec fuel filter
2x facet lift pumps
Fuel swirl pot
Braided lines and alloy fittings throughout
Floor mounted pedal box
OMP 6 point bolt in roll cage with door bars

Exterior:
Spoon carbon spoiler
Spoon carbon mirrors
Custom arch extensions
Custom front lip
Plastics 4 performance Perspex window kit
Tegiwa rear tow eye
Polycarbonate bonnet
Roof sprayed black

Chassis:
BC br series coilovers
SPC front camber and castor adjustable arms
D2 rear camber arms
Bloc rear Lower control arms
Top fuel rear chassis brace
DC sports rear upper strut brace
ASR 24mm ARB with ASR subframe brace
Integra type r front ARB
K sport 6 pot front brakes with 286mm discs, feroddo ds2500 pads
Eg6 rear discs with Hamp pads, braided brake lines throughout with motul brake fluid
Eg6 front subframe
Tegiwa 3 point front strut brace
Rota grid V’s 15×8 et0
Toyo 205/45r15 T1R

With 18 inch magenta Rota Grids you’re definitely making a statement. This Silvia is already an eyecatcher for every Japanese car lover but now every ‘stancehunter’ probably loves this thing too. Also the colour combination with the black paint make the wheels show off.

This S13 had some funny stickers decorating the exterior but stitching bumper cracks with tie-wraps makes your car look a little more hardcore.

After the D-Max carbon bonnet was opened, a couple more enthusiasts walked over to the car to have a look at the engine bay.

In there we find a SR20DET redtop with a S14a turbo. We were sad to hear the news that the engine broke down on the way home. Hopefully everything will work out well and we hope to see it soon again with a newly built engine or whatever it may be!

The owner was kind enough to send us a speclist of his car. You will find this at the bottom of this page. I hope you will appreciate this spotlight and the pictures.

- Rens Adams

Photos by Rens Adams

Speclist:
SR20det Redtop
Tomei cams
Oil cooler
FMIC
Oil filter relocation kit
HKS SSQV
Japspeed manifold
Screamer Pipe
3″ Turboback
S14a turbo
Z32 AFM
Aftermarket fuelpump
2 way diff
Stage 2 clutch

Interior
EMS deep dish steering wheel
Snapp off
R32 GTR seats
GReddy Profec 2 Boostcontroller
Gauges for oil pressure and boost
backseats and carpets removed
Bride carpets,
Dildo shiftknoob,
Nismo 260KMH speedo

Exterior:
G-Corporation bumper, fender, sideskirts
Bricks with Xenon
D-Max carbon hood
Carbon trunk with Aero-Catch
Crystal clear taillights
Aftermarket indicators

Wheels and suspension
Skyline brakes
Tein super drift
Aftermarket camber arms, tension rods, etc.
Rota Grid 9,5×18 ET20 with spacers reducing the offset to 0
Tyres 225/40 R18

Photo by Rens Adams

Did you spot the 300ZX? Even though it’s a Nissan Silvia meeting, a lot of different cars turn up every year. Some of them aren’t even Nissans. That’s okay though, everyone shares the same passion.

Photo by Noud Fieten

Photo by Rens Adams

Some people have visited the meeting in previous years when they still owned a Nissan. It’s really cool to see how people, even after buying a totally different car, still come over to enjoy everyone’s company.

Photo by Noud Fieten

Despite the fact that quite some people couldn’t make it to the meeting with their Nissans, some even came in their daily rides and enjoyed other people’s Silvia’s. Niels’ Stealth-S13 is a real eye catcher. It seems to run perfectly every year and has its own style which everyone seems to like, delicate but very different to other S13′s. That’s something you don’t see very often!

Photo by Noud Fieten

The weekend is very well planned out and no one will run short of anything. The only thing no one has control over is the weather and despite the rain we had at some times, we’ve also enjoyed a clear blue sky with a nice and warm sun.

Photo by Rens Adams

Rens spotted this freshly imported Silvia and took some pictures of it. We’ll be posting those in a couple of days.

Photo by Rens Adams

We would like to thank everyone from the SXCE organisation for setting up another lovely meeting. We’re already looking forward to next year!

- Noud Fieten

Photos by Rens Adams and Noud Fieten

The gold Work XSA o2C 17 inch wheels look pretty damn awesome on a black car.

With KW Variante 2 coilovers, the S2K has a nice stance.

You don’t need to change a lot in this engine bay. A stock two litre is an impressive engine as it is. The owner replaced the stock air intake for a Simota CAI and added the Summit front strutbar.

I love the agressive look of this FN2 nose. I don’t have that same feeling with any other Civic model. Stock but still agressive!

These 18 inch Privat Akzent are an improvement for this Civic’s appearance. But please Kevin, lower the damn thing!

Kind of funny to see this sticker more and more on cars lately. I saw a Miata with this sticker on the Nürburgring last week. The driver’s wife was sitting next to him. I guess women dig it, haha!

It was nice meeting you guys at the Elstars meeting. Hopefully we’ll see you again at a future Wangan Warriors meeting!

- Rens Adams

Photos by Rens Adams

Photo by Rens Adams

I’ts cool to see so many foreign people at the Nordschleife. People from all over the world drive, fly and sail many kilometers to drive the famous Ring. Just when we were leaving the parking lot, the owner Dan Timpson showed up, so we were lucky to talk to the him for a few minutes and invited him to take some driving shots. And as you can see below, Vincent did a good job at that!

Photo by Vincent Roos

In my opinion the Silvia S13 is one of the nicest Nissans out there. A set of Rota’s, coilovers and that will just do.

Photo by Rens Adams
The owner was a little embarresed to open his carbon bonnet because of the dirtiness of his car and engine bay. But one should never feel ashamed of a SR20DET!

Photo by Rens Adams

Since we were spotting cars on the track a lot, it didn’t come to a surprise to see Dan passing by in his Silvia at the Brünnchen turn. Your S13 looked and sounded good out there!

Dan wasn’t alone on his trip to Germany. He was accompanied by an awesome Civic with a K20 engine driven by Jonathan Robert McBrien. We also shot some pictures of that car so you will soon see a write up on that amazing machine.

We would like to thank Dan and Jonathan for their time so we could take some photo’s! It was a pleasure meeting you.

- Rens Adams

Photos by Vincent Roos and Rens Adams

The donor Hachi suffered badly in a drifting accident with a bent chassis as a result. The shell was pretty much useless. Allmost every part was removed to sell, reuse or to save on the pile of spare parts.

Here they’re removing bits and pieces from the interior. Most of the cables needed to stay intact for Kay’s Starlet and Patrick tried to save the windows as these aren’t fabricated anymore for the AE’s.

After they removed the cable loom, the wind-shield, rear window and some other parts, the car was light enough to flip it over on its side.

They used an iron wire to cut trough the rubbers.

With a car on its side it’s not that difficult to remove the subframe, petrol tank or other parts from underneath the car. Kay needs the front springs and he’s going to customise these for his KP61.

Car projects are amazing to photograph and it has something characteristic to it in my opinion.

Also the rear axle is almost suited for Kay’s Starlet but it still needs a little work to make it fit. Technique is an awesome thing isn’t it?

Once all the usable parts were removed, actually almost everything, the car literally laid on his belly. Let’s call it sophisticated slamming.

After a long day of work by Kay and Patrick they had a fully stripped AE86 shell ready for chopping.

Patrick will use most of the body work and Kay the engine and some suspension parts. Stuff that they can’t use will be sold of course. You will allways leave your gara… garden with dirty hands.

- Rens Adams

Photos by Rens Adams