Quality Ensues

There is always a group of people, no matter what culture or hobby, who are a step above the rest. The car scene is no different, and it seems that not only in Australia, but around the world that the Honda boys are definitely a step above the rest in terms of build quality and style. At every Honda-based event I have attended in the past 2 years, there have been top-grade cars. Of course there are always those who are a little slow on the uptake, but percentage-wise, Honda boys are definitely ahead of the rest.

Ozhonda, the largest Honda community site in Aus, always organises events here and there and I try and attend most of them. I just so happened to be free for a recent dyno day (yes OMG another one) held at 101 Motorcafe. I popped in for a look, and even though watching Hondas run on the dyno isn't exactly exciting, it was the quality of cars that appealed. As per usual, they were there in droves.

Of course it wasn't a Honda only event, and a few other makes showed up for the dyno: a few GTRs getting around including a 33 with a quite puzzling baby blue colour, as well as a 32 running some bodykit I had never seen before. A champagne coloured 180 also rocked up with some of the coolest number plates I have seen around, 321ONO, i laughed anyway. But i think my favorite car of the day was Joe's red EG Civic, if you know me personally this will come as no surprise as I do not hide the fact that I love that car.

101 is one of the top garages here in Queensland, has a cafe in it as well.

While these two S2Ks may not be stand out cars, they are still very nice rides. The black one is quite clean with those Advan RS wheels, but the red one was a little worse for wear. Being a track car and all, function was definitely over form for this little red S2K. See if you can work out the plates on the black S2000, some super good thinking there.

...and now let us observe a moment of silence for this NSX.

Tim's Toda EVERYTHING DC5, one of the best builds getting around.

ugh J Speeds look sooo good

The 32 i was talking about before...

Why does noone modify Accord Euros properly over here in Aus? Chris' one here is the only decent example I have seen since their release.

Gotta love those plates, and 360rwhp as well

Joe's Civic is so much win, same car different coloured wheels each side.

Weirdest colour i have ever seen on a 33 GTR, and matched with white GTCs, it makes for one very odd colouring.

11.9sec Turbo D Series. Yeah you heard it right: D SERIES.

Widebody FD RX7. Actually widebody is an understatement, more like gargantuan-body.

Twin turbo set up on 101's R32 GTR '80MBU'. Helped it run a 10.3 quarter mile on street tyres. Scary stuff.

Was a good day, good to catch up with some of the boys and also see some awesome cars. I didn't get shots of everything, but some cars didn't really need coverage if you know what I mean. I don't cover meets, I cover awesome cars haha. After all the runs were done, it was mainly people standing around chatting, then from out of no where, this guy in a Hillclimb built Swift drives out of the 101 garage, sits in the middle of the road annnnddd...

ahhahaha what a champ

One Night Stand

One Night Stand is a local drifting event held here in sunny Queensland, it always manages to show the up and comers and also a lot of sponsored teams turn out to support the event. Mez was out camera in hand to capture the night, Enjoy.

One Night Stand from MeZ Productions on Vimeo.

Spur Of The Moment Thing

Sometimes the best nights are the ones that are never really planned. I was sitting at home watching some stupid program on tv, and I get this phone call from my buddy Logan telling me that there is going to be epic cruise and why am I not on MSN. So i jumped on and within the hour we organized a cruise. Now it wasn't a cruise with 100 cars there were only 2, but the car quality was A grade and cruising with good mates and chilling is always a great way to spend a night.

The cars in attendance are quite popular in the Queensland car scene, specially Brad's S2000 which can probably lay claim as being one of the first S2000's in Queensland to really step it up in terms of overall build, parts quality and of course stance. It manages to drop jaws no matter where it goes, something about those white Meisters, carbon fibre roof, supercharger and titanium exhaust makes peeps go all googlie eyed. Car number two is the properly badass WPN26, something about GTR's always draws attention and Gus's definitely emphasizes that. Due to the love of GTR's, especially 32's, a lot of the time here in Aus unfortunately the quality is terrible and it is a sad sight, but Gus's immaculate 32 definitely proves that Nissan designed something truly special. 500+ rwhp yeah bring the reign.

Started off meeting at a big petrol station and chilled for a bit..

Rear Diffusers are dead fucking sexy

I am ridiculously happy with how Gus's shots turned out, just look awesome. Wallpaper on it's way.

We then ended up at the carpark of Seaworld on the Gold Coast, most random location but worked out to be an awesome backdrop, go figure.

mmmm yummy fitment

Seriously when people see Brad's Carbon roof, they shit massive bricks.

Enjoy the shots ladies and gents, wallpapers to come for sure, and this is definitely not the last time you will see these two cars on here. Cheers to Will & Ben for driving me out there and Brad, Gus & Logan for making it an awesome night.

-Downshift

Living In The Stone Age

First off, I am sorry to the regular readers about the massive lack of anything lately, it has been a good month since my last post, but I have my reasons.

Basically it goes like this, I was asked by my Auntie and Uncle if I was able to house sit their place while they jetsetted to the states for 4 weeks (envious to the max) I said sure why not. Now after about 2-3 days of bumming and playing loads of xbox I jumped on their PC and came to the sad realization that their internet was about the same speed as the internet Noah used when he was googling animals he needed for the maiden Ark voyage. I am not exaggerating either, it downloaded an excel spread sheet at 28.8kb/s.

So I have been living without any form of internet since the 20th of December, and will be living without till the 21st of January. But I had to come home to do some stuff and decided to let you all know the issues and also post and update or two depending on time to keep you all happy.

Cheers for waiting around, and sticking it out.

Rory,
Downshift Crew

Santa Should Use These Sleds

Dyno Days are a dime a dozen over here in Queensland, Australia and you will find that out more so by following our site as this will be our second Dyno coverage and we have a third in the works, not that I am complaining. Mercury Motorsport held a dyno day on the 19th and it was good to see so many people rocking up so close to christmas, but hey taking home a trophy would be one damn nice way to start the festivities.

When I first got sent an Invite about a month ago (god facebook makes things easy) from Jay about the up and coming Mercury Dyno day I knew then that the cars attending would be A grade quality and I was right. Mercury are known for, if anything for their all powerful Nissans and today did not disappoint. Props to Tess and Trent for putting together such a awesome day and for everyone who made it possible by actually fronting for it. It is events like this that make our scene oh so awesome.
The day was made even better by the fact that I thought only a few guys I knew were showing up for it, but it turned out that tonnes of good friends showed for the day. Nothing in this world beats hanging with good friends, surrounded by hella proper cars and watching some full tilt weapons do power runs. Much love for all the boys they know who they are.
Figured it would be easier to just leave comments about the pics, as you would get confused with all the numberplates this way you know who made what power.

So many rides were running eye lids, made me feel like I was living out a Need For Speed game haha Oh well those Emotions made up for it on this 15.

Familiar?? Cory brought the evo out to show everyone how to build a car without it being a rolling defect. Such an awesome ride, and now supports a half cage and totally stripped interior.

Prepare to see a LOT more of this wpn (see what i did there? Comedic genious) Gus is a good mate of mine and his 32 is definitely one of the best getting around, so many GTR's are just trailer queens, and it's always good to see a top quality example rolling on the bitumen.

FINALLY got to see Logans 33 again, after a year of him sending me pictures over MSN. It was good to see it in the flesh, even if it was a little worse off in places due to some previous "workshop" issues but when it's done expect a feature on it as it will definitely be living up to those plates.

I have been wanting to shoot Justins 32 for months now, but he has been consistently upgrading it this year, which i must say always makes me excited when he tells me he got new goods for the beast. But now that his new brakes are on feature is definitely in the works.
Also note Jay's 33 which I hope to feature soon, although big things to come so I might hold out till it is EVEN better. I swear if it wasn't for Jay i wouldn't have half the contacts I do, much love for him.

Last time I saw this 34 it was a bog stock GTR, now it has a full N1 block, 2.8ltr stroker and a t04z hanging off the side, would hate to see the hole in his wallet.

Not a fan of this car, weak wheels and some things that need attention but it makes 1150rwhp so ladies and gentlemen, welcome to pain.

This thing is ridiculous; 1.5jz, powerglide dragbox, full slicks and a low 10sec pass to its name.

What can i say about this thing, but it was actually built by HKS, it ran a 9sec pass in Japan and the owner Dave, drives it like a mad man over here. Intense amounts of win reside in this thing.

To any americans reading this, this is basically a Pontiac G8 but named a Holden Commodore. This particular one has Nitrous and 500hp.