finally after to many people to count messing me and my friend around with regards to selling this car, it has gone. I say that with a little bit of an upset since this was my idea of a dream car, great engine, great chassis, great car, incredibly unique, rare and good looking bodykit. It's about as good as it gets. And it was availiable to me, at a significantly lower price than I sold it for, but I still didnt have the funds :(
What sold me most on this car was probably the sounds and the feeling I got evertime I was in it. Everything was so mechanical and raw. It was just sheer performance. The external waste gate and screamer pipe sounded incredible, you could hear the turbo spooling up and idling, you could feel every aspect of the road. It cornered incredibly well and flat and it was so predictable to drive.you knew exactly what the car was doing at all times, and when the backend came out. the trick diff made it really controllable. Just through sound and feeling you could drive this car. It was that well sorted. I can see now why Bee*R have such a high reputation and are well respected in the skyline community. You have to expierience one of their cars if your into all this stuff.
the de-catted exhaust system and smooth six-cylinder engine were great and loud aswell. It was also a great GT car in general. It was so comfortable and smooth on the motorway. It certainly wasn't quiet though. But it was a really nice sound, to overtake or move lanes, it's just a prod of the accelerator. the engine was incredibly torquey.
I miss it quite alot actually lol, but it's reassuring to know theres plenty of these r32 skylines out there and as an all round car, reliabilty, performance and comfort at next to no cost. it makes you get that warm kind of feeling :). It is an incredible car.
I read somewhere not to long ago that at the time the r32 came out it was widely regarded as the best GT car money could by, especially since it was far cheaper than it's european counterparts. A damn site more reliable too.
But there you go I'll miss it, I hope you enjoyed the snippets of information I provided for you on this blog
Thursday, 10 December 2009
Bee R324 Sold
Friday, 4 September 2009
Sunday, 30 August 2009
Nissan Skyline R32 GTS Bee R R324 For Sale UK
450BHP BEE*R R324 Nissan Skyline R32 GTS For Sale
(1 OF 3 GENUINE BEE*R KITTED SKYLINES In UK)
You’ve Seen It Here
This is about as exclusive as skylines come, you can almost guarantee there’s no other one quite like this in the UK, featured on the Redline stand at Japfest 2009 and in their magazine this is a highly recognised car within the Japanese Performance car community.
An Icon of the drifting world, this is probably the most memorable and unique car in the d1 series, it’s barely changed since the D1 started and it’s still going strong unlike all the other tuning houses which build a new car each season
One of them is in competition use at the moment and the other road legal one isn’t built up to the same spec as this skyline.
Built by the guys back at Bee*R in Japan, This is about as JDM Fresh as they come, The guys over at JDM Garage UK Imported it originally and done all the necessary work for this to become a road legal Car in the UK.
Here’s The Spec
- HID Conversion "very bright lights"
- Heads up display "just needs calibrating"
- The last service was 6 months ago
- Upgraded turbo "made to handle an RB26"
- V-spec Brembo brakes including calipers and discs
- Adjustable suspension
- Entire GTR lower arms
- Locked Drifting/Two-Way Locking Diff
- Bee-R body kit (only 3 genuine kits in the country) including alloys
- GTR fuel pump
- Upgraded gaskets
- Intercooler
- Induction kit
- Full Straight-Thru De-Catted Exhaust System(Sounds Gorgeous)
- Front and rear strut brase
- Entire GTR interior
- Momo steering wheel (I would like to keep it if possible as it has been with me for years)
- Momo gear knob (not sentimentally attached to this one)
- Sunroof (not very common in skylines)
- Dump valve
- Turbo timer
- After market boost gage
- DVD sat Nav
Its currently running at 450bhp with only 0.6 bar. This turbo can handle up to 1.4 bar without a sweat, with just a simple re-map and a boost controller you could easily increase the power up to 550bhp without going over 1 bar.
In a perfect world you would do an engine conversion to an RB26 with the current upgraded turbo and this car would be worth close to the 20k. This car has been featured in the redline magazine and been on there stand at this year’s japfest. It has also featured in Touge Heros dvd aswell as being at there premiere for the release of the dvd in London eariler this year.
The Only time This Has Been in a garage is for an upgrade of some sort or service and mot, It's incredibly reliable.
Monday, 20 July 2009
JDM Garage UK Open Day And Bee*R R324 For The Day :P
I managed to get a Lift down in quite an exclusive skyline, The Bee R R324. This really is a very unique machine and quite a special way to go about modifying your skyline. It’s tasteful and about the pinnacle of the JDM look that so many people go after.
As you can tell by the name it has essentially become another part of the skyline family, synonymous with the drifting scene. In fact that is where this Bee R body kit rose to fame, first seen on Bee*R’s D1GP Drift car, it really stood out from the rest of the cars since it was the only “Hybrid” car.
At the moment, I know of and JDM Garage Know of only 2 Genuine Bee*R Body kitted R32’s, Theres this black one, And JDM Garage’s D1GB machine, This one being the only road legal one. If you know of any others, or own one, please get in contact with me I’d love to see it and do a big feature on it here on my blogJ. Or comment down below this post!
This wasn’t all show and no-go though, underneath the hood was a 400+bhp RB20DET. This was a gorgeously smooth engine, especially at motorway cruising speed and the power was effortless, you just put your foot down and it went!. The sound as well was truly immense and incredibly immersive when it was on full boost, everyone just stopped in their tracks to look around with a slightly scared look on their face, it really did have an undeniable presence and prowess on the road, it demanded a lot of respect.
As you can imagine though turbo lag was quite prevalent especially round town, it only really began to spool up at about 3800rpm, full boost came on by about 5000rpm. However this is because the car was taken down and built back up with the intention of it becoming a competition drifting machine. The owner plans to have the ECU Remapped soon. Once it’s on full boost though it just won’t stop climbing, The only thing that seemed to limit the speed was the pretty low gear ratios.
I’ll get details on the day up soon, and a couple of videos to give you an idea of what it was all about! ;), in the mean time, here’s a few pictures for you to ogle at and please leave any comments questions or queries!!
Monday, 13 July 2009
JDM Garage Skyline Day
It has been A very Long Time Since I wrote on here and I'm planning to get back into it with a full feature on a recent open day at JDM Garage in Devon. This was basicly a chilled out day with a collection of some of the finest imports from JDM Garage and some of the best cars they've made and Tuned.
It was a great chance to meet with the owners of the cars and the owners of JDM Garage and the surrounding companies. It was an incredibly friendly place and atmosphere, check back here over the next couple of days for full details on the day
Tuesday, 17 February 2009
Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional Review, Touch version, Samsung Omnia
So far in my experience of using this Samsung Omnia with Windows Mobile 6.1 on it, it functions exactly the same as Vista on my PC. IT really is a mini PC, you’ve got Microsoft office mobile with Word, Excel and Onenote, you’ve got Internet Explorer and Opera, theres the whole windows live service which allows you to check out spaces and Messenger. This isn’t mobile messenger either when you’re logged on it’s the full on messenger, you can play all the games with people and it doesn’t come up with any of the mobile messenger or Ebuddy stuff. We have Windows Media player as well with the ability to create playlists and sync with Windows Media on your Home PC.
All the Email stuff is full on, you can send/receive organise emails into folders, when you sync all your emails from your PC you can read the full HTML ones aswell. It comes with Flashlite 2 or 3.1 which allows you to check out websites with all their content, this means youtube and fully flash sites. I’ve been using Word alot to do some light editing of documents such as this one I’m writing now and some of my sales letters. I’ve been using the spreadsheets to check out and manage some light stock handling and quick equations.
The wireless support is fantastic, there is not one router I’ve come across yet which has given me any problems with connections apart from security codes of course. When it is connected to the router it detects it as a pc, so you never have any problems with firewalls or port routing etc.
It’s up there Games wise too, it uses a cut down version of Direct X, not sure which one or if it’s specially made, but you get full 3d graphics, reflections, some really good physics support, this can be seen in a game called mini-dogfight in which the planes fly very well and as expected. The texture resolutions seem pretty good and clear. Of course full support is phone dependant. For serious game fans you can run DOS games with DOSBOX, someone has emulated it very well, there’s the usual range of SNES and NES Emulators, I’ve also seen videos on YouTube of people running PS1 games pretty well, which leads me to believe there’s an N64 emulator out there as well...Super smash bros. On your mobile anyone?? I have yet yto confirm this but I’ll have a good look and let you know.
Probably one of the best things I’ve seen Windows Mobile do is fully Emulate the Iphone...now that’s saying something as to the power of this system, at the moment I think the only limitations are those of the Hardware currently on the market but stay alert because there is a Windows mobile 7 coming out shortly along side the official Windows 7, and this of course requires better more powerful handsets .
On some phones there’s DivX VOD support, now many of you probably don’t know what this is, but it’s a pretty big deal, I’m not entirely sure myself to be honest, but I know I can and have played DivX Movies and TV shows, which are usually in HD so you get fantastic video quality especially if your phone has a good screen. Theres GPS support, which is again a phone dependant feature but it’s very accurate, and I’m quite confident you could easily use it to navigate across the country.
Theres a good range of power saving features to accompany it, just like on your laptop, theres screen brightness Wi-Fi saving, CPU scaling. The coolest thing I’ve Found with Power Saving has to be it will turn the phone aerial off when your seriously low meaning you can stretch out the battery to it’s extreme. This means you can finish that important text or email then quickly blip the phone back on to send it. Even if the “phone” side is off, you still have full functionality of the phone/Operating system, you can read emails, saved web pages etc.
The real party piece and head turner has to be the connected home feature. If you have one of those new top end hi-fi systems or a wireless network, you can stream music, videos and photos to your computer and from your computer or stream the music straight off your phone to the speakers. It’s near limitless. With a bit of clever nerdiness you can setup a home server which wil allow you to grab your content or files from anywhere in the world and download them straight to your phone.
While alot of people are going to disagree, it can’t be denied that Windows Mobile 6.1 is leaps and bounds ahead of the OSX on the Iphone, This is shown by the fact it can emulate it very well. HOWEVER it’s not nearly as quick, good looking and intuitive as Apples Fantastic Iphone. For the masses and people that aren’t exactly technical the Iphone is way better, but for business people and techy software people Windows still holds the high ground there, and yes there is Viruses for Windows Mobile and it screwed mine up a short while ago, but fortunately I knew how to reflash. If this happened to anyone else they probably would’ve been in a state and have to send their phone off to Samsung, probably with a nice price on top of it all.
At the end of the day though its down to personal preference. I love my Omnia with Windows Mobile and I certainly wouldn’t complain if I got an Iphone instead-Which I very nearly almost did. But as Im a bit of a techy geek, I love the functionality and flexibility of Windows. This very same functionality and flexibility has been carried over very well into windows mobile.
One crucial thing you MUST bare in mind though, while Windows Mobile is very Capable, some of it’s features are limited by the handset capabilities, a good example is the games and GPS, also there is a few variations between the touch screen version and the normal keypad version. But you cant go wrong either way
Tuesday, 10 February 2009
Quick Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional Overview, Key Features
I am in the process of writing the full on review at the moment, but heres some of the crucial things you should take into account at a glance
communication
Traditional phone
Instant messaging
Conversation like Text messaging
Smart dial
Easy to share photos and videos
Multitasking, easily check an appointment or meeting while on the phone to someone
Windows live and outlook
Manage work and time
Sync all email accounts with phone
Calendar
Microsoft office one note 2007, keep track of stuff on the go
Microsoft internet explorer
Edit documents on your phone and on the go then sync them to your laptop or pc
Sync all your websites on your computer to your phone
Stay up to dates with your friends windows live spaces and your favourite blogs
Photos
Face and smile detection
Panorama mode and touch focus
Set photos as contact card icons
Share photos over email, through mms or by uploading to the internet
Sync photos with pc or Laptop or wirelessly with Bluetooth
Upload straight away to your windows live space with one click after you’ve taken the picture
Games
More than 500 familiar games out there from all the big game developers including ea and gameloft
Windows mobile total access is constantly updating its list of new games
Music and video
Full windows media player, with support for mp3 aac wma/wmv, mpeg 4 and more
Sync your music and videos directly with Windows media player on your pc
