Got the car in the air. Found some broken tabs on the front fenders that will need Welded. Mapped out the cut lines and test fit the passenger side quarter around the gas cap.

After taking my car all the way to Baltimore twice for paint and body work and getting quarters full of bondo, I finally made the plunge and bought a Musk kit despite it being 2x the cost it was when I first inquired 10 years ago. I plan on installing and painting the aero myself so I don’t need to use a body shop again. 

After a weeks vacation I found some motivation to get cracking. I’ve had the kit for about 6 months but too much has been going on and when it wasn’t I lacked motivation for the first time in my life.

The unused Meisters have been teasing me. Too big to fit even the pulled guards I have not been able to run my dream wheels on the car and I refuse to use them as drift spares.

But today I pulled the left side pieces out to formulate a plan.

Musk included a bunch of heat stickers. I’m not sure if I’m going to run them as this car I’ve kept pretty plain. But obviously it’s taking a very different turn so we will see. Might have to let my freak flag fly on this one.

I tried the rear quarter first. Its a bit difficult to locate it exactly but the quality on these parts is great. I will need to pull the trim off then re-install over the overs. The fuel door has to come off on the other side then be installed on top of the over as well. The bumper extention part is pretty simple.

The rear is crazy wide but I’m surprised the front isn’t much wider than stock. I may even have trouble fitting the wheels. The arch is much higher than stock so I’m going to have to be a lot lower. The flare is pretty much level with the hood.

I will need to pull the bumper so I can take the lip off to fit the front bumper extentions. The moldings will need to come off as well. The reflector deletes were glued in unfortunately so I expect paint to come off if I pull them, but I don’t really want to mold deletes, but I also don’t want to cut the bumper pieces to fit around them.

Next move is pulling the molding and locating exactly where the fenders will sit so I can mark the areas to cut.

The vinyl on the truck started lifting after I went through a car wash. So I bought an aluminum kit that I think they use for factory options.

I did this while visiting the homie Ryan for the weekend.

Old shots from the first YokoiKaizen! event.

I’m supposed to be taking a break but Darnell asked me to join him at a Piedmont event. So I did and it was fun.

I had to do brakes on the truck and fix a few broken front suspension parts on the G from the last event.

Some photos from the last Yokai event.

The first set is by the homie Juan of Relax Amigo!

And this shot is my favorite drift related photo.

And some from the MB Drift event.

Everything I did to the G made it worse. Lost all the oil 3x, the alignment shop did not great, and even the SC didn’t feel right. I also was not feeling right and was the biggest contributing factor to the bad weekend.

The test drive after the alignment did not go well.

Took the SC for day 1. I could not get a handle on it. Lots of spinning. Not sure what the issue is aside from bad head space.

I came home early and put a skid plate on the G. There were deep drop offs and the track was super narrow. 

I lost engine oil from one of the fittings on the pull cooler. The car had no self steer and I had cheap tires on the front that started to understeer halfway through the day. More loops and general bad driving.

Gonna take a break for a bit.

I was sharing pictures of my bros Juan and Jay’s slammed S13’s and when I looked at my G35 I felt shame. So I ordered rear upper control arms and SPL spherical coil mounts and maxed the coils. I also added a smaller steering wheel, Z1 steering wheel control bracket, an oil cooler, and did pads. There is a 2 day Spring Matsuri I plan to go to on the 7th and 8th at Rockingham so even though I’m lowering the car I want no more than -1.5 camber rear.

Thanksgiving day I flew to TX to pick up a new truck. BTW never fly Frontier. I ended up breaking up a fight in the back of the plane. 

I had been looking for a few months and missed out on 7 trucks I was going to purchase. So I didn’t wait till after the holiday to try and jump on this one. While I was there I took the opportunity to take some photos in front of the Cowboys stadium, and on the drive home I stipped in to see a homie.

Chrome on darker vehicles seems cheesy to me so I bought some black out parts and installed them this weekend.

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