Tobi set the main topic for the blog on our own builds. I’m not going to talk much about my build as there isn’t one. 😉
Last year I spent my spare time rather on backoffice topics at Speed Industries, trying to push many different projects and max out our internet presence as well as our social media activities. As you may have noticed, you didn’t see me that much on track and espacially not with my own car. Priorities just went in a different direction and I really had to admit that the Hachiroku might be a unreliable old shitbox for my dedicated purpose.
I really loved the car as what it was – but modding it more and more to have a even better fun-track-car it became insanely expensive to maintain! I destroyed nearly every part in the drivetrain – multiple times – during the time I tracked the car a lot and spend unresonable amout of hard earned money on fixing it for the next trackday.
For my self I set up a list with things I’d like to do in future and most of that this year. A track-’streeto‘-tool was on the list, but somehow not as important as it used to be. I spend a lot of thoughts on a MX5. I even made a list with parts for the car. Next on the list was a Mini Cooper S 07′, maybe even, debending on budget, a former Mini Cooper S Challenge car. Ready for rumple out of the box. Later during this time I had already put cash down on a 200SX S13. My thought was to build the car and start to enjoy it. Unfortunatly life changed a bit and I had to admit, that it wasn’t what I was looking for. Somehow this ideas were not so convincing at all – winter came and I met a friend I haven’t seen for a long time and he offered me to buy his well spec’d street-‚track‘-tool. He told me, that he’ll carry out the regular MFK and check that every thing is right. This was a serious offer and I had to talk and think about it very much. Many of my close friends told me that I’m an idiot – but the ones helping me build and rebuild the Hachiroku for dozends of times convinced me to go for it!
I’ll get my new toy next week! For now it’s just a car with 4 wheels and a carbon bucket seat. But I’m looking forward to it! I hope to enjoy my life and the car this year a lot. Tracking it and hearing the roaring sound of the wide open throttle bodies – without spending millions of hours messing around with ever breaking stories – should bring my nigthmare to an end!Tobi set the main topic for the blog on our own builds. I’m not going to talk much about my build as there isn’t one. 😉
Last year I spent my spare time rather on backoffice topics at Speed Industries, trying to push many different projects and max out our internet presence as well as our social media activities. As you may have noticed, you didn’t see me that much on track and espacially not with my own car. Priorities just went in a different direction and I really had to admit that the Hachiroku might be a unreliable old shitbox for my dedicated purpose.
I really loved the car as what it was – but modding it more and more to have a even better fun-track-car it became insanely expensive to maintain! I destroyed nearly every part in the drivetrain – multiple times – during the time I tracked the car a lot and spend unresonable amout of hard earned money on fixing it for the next trackday.
For my self I set up a list with things I’d like to do in future and most of that this year. A track-’streeto‘-tool was on the list, but somehow not as important as it used to be. I spend a lot of thoughts on a MX5. I even made a list with parts for the car. Next on the list was a Mini Cooper S 07′, maybe even, debending on budget, a former Mini Cooper S Challenge car. Ready for rumple out of the box. Later during this time I had already put cash down on a 200SX S13. My thought was to build the car and start to enjoy it. Unfortunatly life changed a bit and I had to admit, that it wasn’t what I was looking for. Somehow this ideas were not so convincing at all – winter came and I met a friend I haven’t seen for a long time and he offered me to buy his well spec’d street-‚track‘-tool. He told me, that he’ll carry out the regular MFK and check that every thing is right. This was a serious offer and I had to talk and think about it very much. Many of my close friends told me that I’m an idiot – but the ones helping me build and rebuild the Hachiroku for dozends of times convinced me to go for it!
I’ll get my new toy next week! For now it’s just a car with 4 wheels and a carbon bucket seat. But I’m looking forward to it! I hope to enjoy my life and the car this year a lot. Tracking it and hearing the roaring sound of the wide open throttle bodies – without spending millions of hours messing around with ever breaking stories – should bring my nigthmare to an end!