Wheel Alignment and first run of spring hopefully not the last

 indeed yes it was a bit busy a week or so ago. So got the GTR alignment all done, I thought it would be easy enough to do as it was done last year so everything should have been moveable but cars being cars there was always going to be one eh ? Anyhow, everything that could be adjusted from factory was indeed adjusted and then it was just down to testing it. 

Quick recap. Sometimes the car had a tendency to crab left under braking and while it wasn't causing big issues it certainly wasn't by design. So, new tyres fitted, alignment (re)done just testing required. 

As luck would have it a beautiful sunny day came along and like a child at the beach I just dove (drove??) straight in. Fabulous day, air con on, sunnies on RB26 singing away and on first drive everything was working just nicely. Bearing in mind this is the cars first proper run since being laid up for Winter, tyre fitting and alignment aside. Brakes seemed fine, engine seemed fine, TEINs rock solid but not clanking so I guess working ok. Anyhows, plooting along a favourite road of mine, going a lot further down the road than I thought I would be going I discovered they had over the winter re-laid a rather large section of road and now instead of resembling the moons surface the road is billiard table smooth. Ya dancer!

While driving south I passed an old style iron bridge and I've always thought that pictures with bridges and cars in them are just amazing. So on the homeward journey back I managed to grab a couple of snaps though obviously I still cannot take good pictures so here they are.

and from the other side

er so I bought one lol

in its natural habit no ?

 yup I have gone and bought an R33 GTR, after the prices have already gone stupid and before they go really stupid (hopefully still upwards to get some cash back to me in the future). Car I'd always wanted after the MR2 but kept the MR2 for so long until it was rusted beyond repair (boot floor was rotten from wheel arches to the bumper) that I thought no more old 90's JDM for me and then full circle here I am. 

So why now? Well after my trip to Japan in 2020 for the Tokyo Auto Salon and going to the Daikoku Tokyo car meets, seeing all the JDM cars and tonnes of British / European and American cars as well, the R33 passion was relit and then the pandemic hit. But it has itched away at me since then and while I've nagged various mates about it I didn't really do anything about it til just before Christmas 2022 when i really started seriously looking at options. A few ups and downs later and here we are and I've only gone and done it. Did I need to do it, nope and certainly shouldn't have done it for many many reasons but you do only live once so er yeah why not!

So it's a Series 1, silver (obv) very basic mods of coilovers (too low and too stiff as the car skips over a series of bumps rather than ride them out) lovely Kakimoto exhaust that is not too loud and neighbour friendly ish and some daft HKS mushroom filters. Other than that, stock which is how it mostly will remain. Might update the mp3 CD head unit to a Sat Nav unit but that's a bit more awkward with the single DIN layout. Might just get a plug in Sat Nav display that does the Bluetooth for the phone / music as well. Choice choices.