Hey guys, I'm Stu, I'm a graphic designer from Adelaide (finished my degree, graduating in early August!) I'm 24, and own two cars; a fairly heftily modified 1994 N14 Nissan Pulsar, and more recently a 2007 Ford Fiesta XR4. The XR4 is my "daily" although the Pulsar still gets as much use as the Fez does. It was my first true love, after all, hehe.
I've recently had a couple of runs of Nissan Motorsports International replica decals produced by the team at D&S, and have been distributing them around a few mates across a couple of car clubs I'm affiliated with, including the Pulsar Group of Australia, R31 Skyline Owners' Club, Nissan Datsun Car Club and even a couple to Nissan Sunny Owners' Club in the UK! The decals been a massive hit so far, even in such low volumes, they're very simple, but a credit to the quality of D&S's work.
My passions include (ironically) motorsports and environmentalism; I'm an eco-maniac but I don't think I could last for too long without getting my whole upper body covered in oil and grease from underneath one car or the other... I'm an obsessive compulsive car-cleaner (figuratively speaking) both cars are spotlessly clean as much as it's possible to be so; even the engine bay in the Pulsar recently got a *thorough* cleaning while I replaced the water pump and some hoses during its 300,000km major service (nope, that wasn't a typo...) I'm entering the Pulsar in the Collingrove hillclimb on August 28th, hoping to beat a previous PB of 41.71 secs!
The mods list on the Pulsar is quite extensive, but the majority of it is parts from upgraded models of Pulsar, since mine started out as the absolute bottom of the range $19,990 drive away no more to pay dealio. In a nutshell...
-Factory original engine, gearbox and paintwork...300,000km with a total of 43 dents, scratches and egg impacts...
-Full jap-spec N14 SSS interior and bodykit, including full electrics
-FN14 Pulsar GTi (JDM) bits n' pieces including leather steering wheel and gauge cluster
-RNN14 GTiR brake upgrade - DBA slotted rotors, Goodridge stainless braided brake lines, Project Mu pads, J20 Maxima master cylinder, Motul RBF600 fluid
-Customised King Springs over KYB struts with camber adjustment (7kg/mm front, 5.5kg/mm rear)
-Jap-spec N14 SSS swaybars, droplinks and various other bits and pieces
-Custom cold air induction into modified stock airbox
-2.25" mandrel-bent exhaust system (catback only...so far) with Supercat muffler and 24" resonator
-ROH Adrenalin shadow chrome wheels with Bridgestone RE001 Potenzas
-Custom aerodynamics...front undertray and splitter, extended rear bumper pods, vortex generators, with a more subtle solution in the works!
I haven't touched the running gear very much yet besides tuning and maintenance, I have plans within the next 12 months or so to swap in an Autobacs Garaiya "20V" SR20VE (12:1 compression, DOHC Neo-VVL motor, 130kW out of the box...) mated up to an N16 Pulsar 5-speed manual with VLSD. So I'm saving my pennies!
This is how the Pulsar started, when I bought it back in late 2003! Minus the wheels, of course...it had 14" steelies and 3 hubcaps. Thanks mum!
On the dyno at Graham West a couple of years ago at the Pulsar Group annual interclub Dyno Day...
Bit more recently, early last Summer in the carpark behind UniSA's City West campus...
Action shot from up on Eagle on the Hill, taken during a shoot for a failed PGA calendar...
All Japan Day 2010~!
Old Skool n New Age 2010!
And a couple of the Fiesta XR4...
Ok, that should about do for now, hahah! Sorry for the epic photospam, I'm the same way with my cars as most grandparents are with photo albums of their families...obsessed. Hope to talk to you all soon!
