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Real Life TOMICA Transporter?
So I goofed. Â I forgot to have my GT-R undergo the annual "shaken" process back in June. Â Normally, I would simply drive my car to the nearest dealership and have them take care of the shaken required...
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R's Meeting 2022 - Part 1 - Chronologically Taken Photos
Trying something new with my photos for this post!So of course, the reason why I needed my car road-legal again quickly, was to be able to drive it to this year's R's Meeting put on by GT-R Magazine...
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R's Meeting 2022 - Part 2 - Chronologically Taken Photos
So after running into Dino again where he was taking photos of the long line of cars trying get to customer parking, we walked back to my car so he could change out his camera lens.On the way back, we...
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Nerding Out at R's Meeting 2022 - NAPREC
 So I've been skimming some of the social media coverage of the R's meet lately, and one tuner/booth that seems to not get much attention is the one for NAPREC, short for Nagoya Precision.  Established...
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Tempting New Modernizing Product at R's Meeting 2022
So at the OS Giken booth during my walk around R's Meeting 2022, I found this:No, not the R34 - but the advert next to it!Describing something called OS-EPC - Their easier to read Facebook page has the...
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Dorky... but Effective?
 So as I was cleaning out my garage the other day, I found this - something I purchased, I think, over 10 years ago!Yep, clear door edge guards, complete with double stick tape.Of course, me being, me,...
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Mods to the Garage - LED Lighting for the Win!
 So even though this blog is about my R33 GT-R, for me ownership of this car means I have a responsibility to make sure this car looks good all the time.  That means keeping it clean, and that means...
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Those Parts Numbers REALLY CAN Make a Difference...
So given that the Series 1, Series 2, and Series 3 (Zenki, Chuki and Khoki) R33 GT-Rs are fundamentally the same car, in modifying and keeping this car running, I am usually not a stickler for...
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Nice End of Year Present! Thank You Very Much!
 So I was pleasantly surprised to receive this today. Fairly light but it WAS from Trust Kikaku...Wow! Somethiing from HKS! Wait, it says Door Mat?And it came with instructions! Says that HKS are not...
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Nissan Gearhead Lunch, Chance Encounter with Blog Readers, Nissan GT-R/Z...
Hi everyone,So thanks to all of you who have reached out to check to see if I am still alive. The answer is yes, and yes I still have my R33 GT-R. Â But, this year is a particularly busy one at work...
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Torque Wrenches JUST for Car Wheels
 Check this out...Thanks to Amazon its algorithm which knows that I own a Nissan, I found out that KTC (Kyoto Tool Company) makes and sells torque wrenches that are pre-set to the wheel lug nut torques...
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Making Sure I'm Not Left Behind
I am talking about car cleaning and detailing techniques, of course.  Since I admittedly rarely drive the GT-R these days, I don't really get a chance to keep my skills up. On the other hand, my...
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Minor Electrical Issue Was Worth Fixing!
So you all will remember the nightmare that happened a few years ago when a rogue stereo /alarm installer decided he would use my car as his experimental test bed and not apologize for all the goofs?...
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My First Visit to Trust Kikaku!
 So my friend Matt is a loyal customer of Trust Kikaku, and so of course when he announced a few months ago he was going to visit Japan, we agreed that we should drop in for a visit when he was...
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Removing My Most Annoying Mod Of Choice
 So after removing the crap car alarm and stereo that WORX Auto Alarm had installed in my car, I decided that without an alarm, I needed to figure out some ways to make my car harder to steal.Enter the...
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CONSULT to the Rescue/Benetec Dry Carbon Rear Wing
Some of you may have seen me on social media paying more than one visit to Nismo Omori Factory recently.  And in fact, just a couple of weeks ago my friend Matt met me at Omori Factory where we picked...
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Nismo Festival 2023 - Some Random Photos...
Friends, as I was volunteering my time to help out at the Nismo Omori Factory dispaly (with their 4 CRS demo cars) I did not have have much time for photos, but my friend Henning also sent some over to...
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OEM Look LED Series 3 Headlights by VELENO! (@Tokyo Auto Salon 2024) - Part 1
Happy New Year friends!Having seen some social media posts (and an advert in last month's GT-R Magazine) about a new product from LED specialist Veleno (working together with Nismo Super GT racing...
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 So as promised, I called up Nakakuki-san at Garage Chikara this past week to follow up on some questions I had, as well as several everyone was asking me, after my first post.Question - this is too...
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The Making of "The GTR Run Tokyo" by HartnettMedia (and my role in it!)
 A few months ago, my friend Dino contacted me - "hey you want your 33 to become the most famous 33 in the world?" with "Pennzoil wants to do a little something, so I am working on a project"Of course,...
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One Bucket List Item Accomplished - a Bendpak Lift in My Garage!
Yep, my very own Bendpak lift!And here is the final result!Yeah, yeah, I need to clean up but for now...So this is a BendPak HD-9 model, designed for vehicles up to 9000 lbs (or 4082kg)....
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NISMO 40th Anniversary - up close with the NISMO 400R
So if you've been paying attention, Nismo turned 40 on September 17, 2024.  To celebrate, Nissan made sure the gallery at Global Headquarters showed off some of NISMO's best cars. I meant to say, Road...
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Meeting The Father of the R33 GT-R, Kozo Watanabe!
At this year's R's Festival, I had the honor of taking a photo with Kozo Watanabe, who was the Chief Vehicle Engineer that oversaw the development of the R33 GT-R and the R34 GT-R.Here is the Wiki link...
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Nismo Festival 2024!
(Please excuse the belated post - I was overseas on a business trip the day after the Nismo Festival (which was on December 1 this year) and I am finally getting caught up...)I know many of you are not...
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Last Post of the Year!
 So with two new cars joining the Itoh garage this year - my 2016  E52 Elgrand VIP and the 2024 Skyline Nismo - I did not have much time to do much with the R33 this year.  But never fear, yes I do...
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