May last year I bought an AW11 JDM SC Targatop, converted to NA small port by the old owner for P plate restrictions. Since buying the car I’ve been using it as a daily until I managed to get on top of some bad debt I had lying around. I’ve put 70000kms ontop of the car since I purchased it so she’s proper fucked.

In that time outside of standard maintenance all I’ve done is some electrical repairs and I’ve upgraded the brakes to slotted rotors with EBC Greenstuffs.

The car had a few things that needed fixing when I bought it, all minor things, I removed the crappy autotechnica steering wheel, the Type R 5″ tacho, the mesh over the front grill, the playboy seat covers and a few other things.

The engines got pretty much no compression left now and its starting to run pretty goddamn rough, chewing through oil at a phenomenal rate and just generally stinking out whatever road I drive her on.

This is how the car sat when I bought it, 70k kms down the F3 every day and a few minor dings have left her looking a little more ratty then when I got it but cosmetics are the last thing that I will fix on her.

I picked this up last night for an awesome price, its an AE92 AFM GZE in a poor condition AE82, this will be the donor car for the engine replacement I so desperately need.

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The original plan was to build a nice 4A Turbo setup but due to time and money restraints I needed a motor asap and the GZE came up at an awesome price so I couldnt argue. My smallport will be pulled from this shell for the GZE and I will build that up as a turbo motor later on down the track.

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Cup holders
Airconditioning
Back seats
Foot space
Head space
Airbags
Storage compartments
Power steering
Electronic safety features
ABS
Cruise control
Climate control
A boot big enough to hold a golf bag
Keyless entry

My Car does have:
A mid mounted engine.

I feel I made a wise purchase

Many moons ago in the days of windows 95 I installed a SNES emulator, and the first thing I played was Supermario brothers and I was impressed that I could play super mario brothers on my PC, mind you I was all of 11 back then so I was easily ammused.

Then later down the track I picked up an Xbox and gave it a good ole mod chip, loaded up some emulators and I played super mario brothers on my Xbox, totally awesome at the time.

Then I got myself a PSP, before the unit had arrived I’d already downloaded some ROM’s and emulators and then I got it, downgraded it, and ran a SNES emulator, playing super mario brothers.

After this I got caught up in the Wii Hype and brought one, and got it home, played some Wii tennis with the missus, then checked out the Wii store. OH Cool,  the original Mario brothers, so I paid my $8 and downloaded it so I could play Mario Brothers on my brand new Wii hooked up to my 42″ bravia with my awesome sound system. I was ammused and pleased.

Now I look at the NES emulator for my iPhone and think “Oh cool, Mario Brothers” well you know what fuck no. I’m not the only person who does what I do, everyone seems to love getting mario brothers on new platforms. But seriously, how many times do you need to play Mario brothers, how much money have I spent on gadgets that still only play Mario?! You know what, I never got passed the 3rd level, I never owned a SNES, no no I was a sega fanboy. So Mario and all your multi hacked platform madness, I bid you aduer.

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