a trip to silvia avenue

As i said in a previous post, i was taking a trip to see nick at his residence. a trip to see his new purchase, an S13 Nissan Silvia. unfortunately the car was in the garage... and it was night time... aaand he needed to replace some gaskets. so there weren't many good photo opportunities. not letting that get me down i brought the camera in with me and took what i could.

as usual, Toms S13 greeted me as i drove up the street, A cool car, but not the car i was here to see. Nicks animal hiding in the garage with the man himself tucked up under the bonnet. With a few gaskets needing to be changed the manifold needed to come off to do so. 

Due to a not so ideal Christchurch customs engineering fail it was not the easiest task, with odd sized bolts and tight spaces mixed with a flexi-less exhaust being the issue, Nick and Mathew slaving away eventually getting the thing off. not without a bit of wriggling around underneath the car.

With the manifold and T28 off the car a bit of a clean up and check over was done for added bling and piece of mind, unfortunately what was found on the car was a bit of a let down ( and a laugh ) on purchase it was apparent that an engine mount was broken. however it wasn't apparent that the engine mount was backwards and not even the right mount for the motor... Not so good.

While Nick and Mat were cleaning up his fancy turbo, I had a bit of a nosey into the dark corners of the garage looking for a photo op. not venturing past the mass amount of tires ( a house full of S chassis you can only expect one thing ) something caught my eye. a piece of art that PHRESH AND PHRUITY may take ownage of...

With Nick finishing up the cleaning of the T28 he decided he wanted to take hold of the camera and shoot away after telling me his photography exploits and wanting to show off his hard work. Taking a beautiful shot of a fine piece of engineering.

and then leaving, with this shot. a simple, irrelevant sticker sitting on the back of Nicks S13.

Enjoy