Rev Speed Super Battle - NOPRO

NOPRO cracking 1.05 at tsukuba!

The 2.5L block is about 10mm higher creating the volume for the 2.0 head.

Hyper RE-30 are cool!

Nogami-San drives to the track, changing the exhaust before the trip home.

Even without over fenders, the car looks cool.

I think we all know I love NC, so this is a pinnacle car.

Sun Shine was bright on the cool winters day.

Rev Speed Super Lap - Brightening.

Yo! What is that!

Thats new Aero for the NC roadster!

Its got a big duct that leads to the air filter. No need for eyelines here.

The SHIT Cosworth super charger is gone, but cosworth cams remain.

Brightning's car looks like a winner.

On the first track outing for the new setup, balance was jyaku oba- jyaku unda-

unbalanced

 But thats what testing is for.

Not many cars in the class, but NC roadsters were about the only cars doing countless laps. The tubo boys only do a few before cooling down. The Roadsters Run all session.

Sema 2010 Mazdaspeed

I needed to change this blog.

The mazdaspeed cup cars are pretty cool these days, this white one with Advan RS is great!

But I am not sure what to make of the grey super20.
Wide fenders and front end treatment make this car UGLY!
These are the same car. How can they make one look cool and the other look rediculously blah.
I like galaxy grey and flat black... but come on... this is woeful! and ... I chose the best pic.

Garage Vary Ugly

This makes me happy I don't have a NC to be related to something like this.

Garage Vary's New bumper is..... NC From a distance... Hmmm.

Up close... Lets talk about ZERO IMAGINATION!!!!

give me 10 seconds to create something better.

Return of the GT

My roadster went to auction as avbove.

The roadster returns 2 months later. It re-appeared minus a lot of the choice items but some more detailing.

CE28N were painted body colour (probably to hide some scratches.)
Front bumper was repainted and all the small holes from the number plate and the canards

No Ohlins, No Stereo.

Japanese Auctions are sometimes a chance for someone with money to pick up some parts for free.

Stock or tuned cars are the same cash.

So I guess it makes sense if you can afford to.

Buy a car, remove the parts or exchange for stock and re-sell.

No, I didn't re-buy it.

Russ.

Advan Success

I swapped my Advan's with the CE28N from my friends race car.
They wanted to get some more grip on their prelude. The change has worked well for them.

They only run the Advans on the rear as they have wider rims up front now too.

Recently they won a 6 hour enduro... I think it was totally because of my wheels of course.

haha.

Check out TG-R

Greddy Stuff

BIG Good News Boys and Girls.

Greddy have a bunch of new parts.http://www.trust-power.com/event/1005/nc.html
 
Including finally an exhaust manifold and full catalyser and 2 New Exhausts.

Cool intake for the Airinx system
Strut bars front and rear.
Street and Circuit suspension.
They have collaborated with Arbic's NC body kit
and also re-selling OS giken LSD, Clutch and more.
A complete car...

Latest Option Mag ALSO has a Turbo kit in the works running 0.6 Bar
and T716Z turbo. power is 60ps Up to 230ps easy.

Looks like some tuned NCEC coming.

There is a new magazine coming in Japan called Roadster Bros too with many features.

Like the finish on the advans.

Russ.

Roadster of the Week.

The final entry for GT-Roadster blog.

I had fun in my car and I think it was a pretty good looking car for a budget vehicle. Sensible mods were the key for this car. However it did seem to inspire some as I received lots of feedback from the roadster community.

There are many others with a similar passion that are prepared to inspire also.  Head over to roadster garage http://roadstergarage.wordpress.com/ for Adam's similar obsession with his NB.

He run's a segment called Roadster of the week, which means a cool car every week. Stick it in your RSS feed and check out the progress and cool inspiration.

Thanks for the feature.

No Pro Wide Fenders

Nopro has a good customer that always tries his latest stuff.

Pina has added the over-fenders and merged them with his bodykit. the result is pretty smooth.

The new wide fenders didn't match his old wheels though, so I added some TE37-SL for added impact and dumper the car to the deck!

http://www.nopro.jp/nc_aero_fener.html

Gami san now has the 2.5L car with Hyper Bronze RE-30 but no wide fenders... Strange?

Realistically he doesn't need them. 18x8.5 +52 still fit under the normal guards.

Russ.

GT-Roadster Memories.

 The final incarnation of my NC was a long journey

 One of the last mods I added was the Nopro rear under spoiler. Actually, I never really got an opportunity to try this mod. Too many other things were happening.

 Open top driving is a pleasure. If you have never experienced it, please try.

 The was the last clean image of the car without vinyl GT-Roadster and sponsor logos.

 Tripping around Nagano is awesome. But I'd recommend the dry season.

 The mountains around here are inspirational.

 Just about anywhere you can take a postcard image.

 My fascination with vinyl designs started way before this.

 Touring with Route Sixteen club was excellent.

Sights like this were common. Some of the best times.

 Always trying something.

M'z Lip and craft square and re-positioned number = cool!

 Fuji Fuji Fuji.

 Tsukuba Tsukuba Tsukuba. You can run flat all day if your game... was I?

 Try something.

 Try something Else

 Back to Fuji

 Hakkone!

 Sakura

 Simply Japan!.

 Izu

 April is always awesome

 Supermarkets make great studios

 So does a road.

 Daikoku

 Sharing your roadster is most enjoyable.

 Chiba Boso is another direction.

Locations are everywhere.

Narita

 Nopro Touring.

 Mazda HQ with R16

 This event required something special.

 A car is a blank canvas.

 Touring with R16 in Iro Hazzaka. I like Haipins.

 Test pattern.

 More Touring with R16. I covered about 5000 klms with these guys. 40 NC roadsters cruising past is amazing.

 NR inspiration. This was not the initial intention.

 Most testing was done at Tsukuba. DFV settings, Camber check... etc.

 Then Chiba always was a close and reliable empty road.

 And sometimes an empty warehouse too.

 Daikoku is always a place to compare and refect.

 Yamanashi... The car was meant to be a street car!!! What was I doing at the circuit...? Can't stop the urge.

 First long long long drive! Yeah it got dark quicker than I thought.

 Like driving in heaven. The NC is good for a daily car.

 Nikko is a good place to test any new car. Fun Fun Fun.

So after about 12000klms and a couple of years, the journey has ended for me, but only just starting for someone else.

I hope they enjoy the experience.

Russ.