Looking forward to more : Some of the cleanest Miata’s that side of the pond.

THE 86 INSIDE STORY

The equal bore and stroke of each piston in the potent boxer engine is 86mm, a vital statistic celebrated in the “86″ piston logos mounted on the front wings.

Weight distribution is a near-perfect 53:47 front to rear, while the centre of gravity is a seriouslt low 460mm. 4,240mm long, 1,775mm wide and just 1,285mm high.

Saw this over on the Hellaflush blog. Well worth a look if you haven’t  already and if you haven’t where have you been! Get on it.

Yes sir I’ll have a JDV. Make it as cold as it is smooth.

Oh and some custom minty.fresh decals ^^

When you think of a daily driver you usually think of something standard, small engined and cheap to insure. Chris Lomax didn’t really wanna go down the normal daily route, yes it had to be economical but it had to have a bit of style.

He has had a fair collection of cars in his past, civic’s, evo’s and more recently golfs.Mainly a show stopping Mk5 GTi and his last car a Mk5 R32 Golf which has appeared on this blog before albeit just a snap shot.

Chris bought this Audi A4 S-line to get him back and forth from work, but having a standard daily would never do. You can quite obviously see one of the main additions ……….

The Bentley Gt Monoblocks stand out a fair bit. Weighing in at hefty 19″ in diameter and 9″ wide they give the audi a substantial presence on the road. You will also notice aswell here that Chris hasn’t pushed the car to have an over the top “stance” with spacers etc.Its due to the fact he would like the car as drivable as possible.

The car is nicely lowered on FK coilovers, low enough to look good but not so low that you can’t drive anywhere although Chris has found the odd speed bump to be problematic.

The interior is another area which Chris decided to add his mark. The car originally came with a boring black leather interior, when offered a swap for it on www.eastsidevw.co.uk Chris had to check out what was on offer. Described as “bellend Purple” he decided to snap it up, it’s very Marmite but tbh I love it! The front Recaros are the same that are found in the RS4/RS6 and are extremely comfortable, exactly what is needed when cruising back and forth to work everyday.

The engine remains a standard 2ltr TDi unit, just the right kinda performance which also returns excellent MPG

And so there you go, the first non JDM car to be featured on Minty.Fresh …….. the first of many I’m pretty sure!

Thacko

Just found this pic of my Evo back in Sept 2010 at JAE. She’s tucked away for now, but i will get her back out to play at somepoint! and yes it will be this low again!

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I sent my rocker cover away to jay at Jims factory to get airbrushed, to say his work Is Amazing is a understatement I just got these sent to me. Remember my post with the Japanese grape Fanta can

Here is a link to there website

http://www.jimsfactory.com/

I will get pics up when I fit the cover to the datsun