Hello there!
My name is Blandon (not a typo) and I live Sydney, Australia. For the people curious how to pronounce my username it is pronounced ‘psy-cho guy’ (sai-kou) as in that guy is psycho but it also has another meaning in Japanese, ‘best’ – guy but the name can be interpreted as just; ‘psycho guy’, ‘best guy’ or even ‘best psycho guy’ . I’ve had it since I first started playing video games inspired from a vehicle called the Saikou (which was a Supra) from the game Midnight Club 2.
“最高 – (saikou) The Best”
My interest in cars pretty much started when I was kid being surrounded by motorsports on TV and parents owning cool cars such as Pontiac Trans-am Firebird.
I studied IT majoring networking at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) and enjoy many outdoor activities such as go-karting, paintballing, etc also an avid gamer especially in FPSes & Racing.
Deeply inspired by Jalopnik, SpeedHunters, MightyCarMods, /Drive & other blogs I to decided to start on a webpage/blog to create content and share it to people I know and to those curious people out there about the interesting and exciting things that I think I do or come across. It will be mainly oriented around motorsports, projects, my hobbies (paintball, racing, photography, etc to name a few) and a bit on myself but keep watch for random stuff!
If there’s any question or you want a quick chat send me a email or comment below on any of the pages!
– Blandon
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Hey mate, my mates and I are looking at building something similar. Using a echo/yaris as a base car (we plan on racing it around Sandown in the enduro events). I’ve seen your build list and just wondering what you’d say is necessary and what we could get away with?
Looking at just getting the suspension/brakes/tyres done, would that do a 6hour enduro?
Thanks
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Hey mate feel free to jump on the Echo/Yaris Australia Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/NCPClubAustralia) there’s couple of people there who do track/participate in motorsports ranging from track day (Nugget Nationals/supersprints) to rally car builds
I’d always recommend wheel/tyres and brake pads as the first thing to look at if you’re serious about laptimes and safety. The bushes can come after or if they’re flogged out it’ll be a good time to replace them with polyurethane variants.
The Echo will be lighter and more mechanically simpler car where as the Yaris has more electronics (DBW, ABS, etc) and is bigger which later down the road if you really wanted to swap in the Corolla 2ZR-FE with 6 speed and it’ll fit nicely
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