Gaz's GlanzaV

Some of you might of read that i was away to Oz at the begginning of october, well i`m back, well have been for about a month and a half, just hav`nt been on here to get my pics up and catch up with things on here, which i think will be a wee bit.. Hols went well, nothing bad to report on anyway, enjoyed some really stunning weather, average temps between 20`s and 30`s.. Breif itinery of where we went.. Flight was from Glasgow to Dubai(over night stay) bangkok to Sydney, total of 22hours flying time. We stayed at my dads sister for a couple to days in Goulburn, just to get settled, then moved up to Brisbane for 12 days to stay with my mums cousins, that was another 1 hour flight up the road.. Then got my dads sister in Sydney to stay in rented flat for 3 days, then it was a long drive in a hired minibus back to Goulburn, in which we had a quick stop off in Bathurst for some tukker, and we also visited canberra for 2days..

Inside Dubai terminal

This all at Brisbane

This is a City beach

This from the Q-deck at the Gold coast which is a hotel and offices

Sunshine coast

At the zoo

Freshwater crock

Sydney

At the olympic park and the blue mountains

Roo sign

Flight home from Sydney to Dubai aboard the Airbus A380

And just for Proof

Yeap i get this aswell, as soon as the weather turns cold, the handbrake sticks on, but find its usually only on one side. This was pretty evident last night stuck on last night, disk got way too hot so stopped to throw a bit of snow on it to cool it down, was a bit of interesting driving before that, most corners i came to the car started to brake free into an over steering stiuation. But yeah it pisses you off when the handbrake sticks on when its cold weather.

Oh its a radar station for aircraft, its on top of the lowther hills at wanlockhead, that was probably one of the hottest days we had so far this year in Dumfries

Yeah think pics are a bit of a must

will show you`z lot, if and when i get back

Why not another one.... sorry for taking up too many pics of myself

I had T1R, did`nt think they grip`d that well in the wet as what people seem to praise them for, found out another type by toyo, i`ve got Proxes4 on mine now, look pretty good, plus i`m a bit anal about tred patterns and how i think they will cope in wet weather (plenty of guttering in these ones) these were around £34 a corner on 195/50/15

She`ll kill me for putting this up here, but here`s mine at the moment

What the hell i`ll add a few of myself, i`m going to OZ anyway

i do get called hillwalker, skywalker, luke skywalker, highlander by the GF dad, dont know why......

Trying a hot rod pose here

Holy **** just read that dane at sps is going... not good, was really wanting to get some polished mild steel manis, dont know where i`il be able to get something like that now

Yep i`m off to OZ on the 4th October

mum and dad have got relatives over there and they have been coming over here ever so often asking when are we coming over, so last year we set a date and finaly its coming round.

We are going by Emirates from Glasgow to Dubai(which Emirates are putting us up in a hotel for 8 hours) then to singapore for a re-fuel then to Sydney.. Were also going on holiday on holiday with my uncles family to Manley for a while, then after that were moving up to Brisbane for while, thats about it, not moving around too much. And (if) i decide to come back we are getting the Airbus A380 back from sydney to Dubai, really want to see the size of this thing beside a normal jumbo..

The reason i`ve got the JAM decal is because i`ve got a JAM ECU, white TRD gear knob, and i took the tom`s badge from another glanza that i had seen on the net from japan at an import company and originally i wanted to go with a white, black and red colour scheme.

I was looking at this company before i got my V, cars look good and clean, the guy i e-mailed replied very quickly, got some good pics aswell, but i did`nt want to take it to the next stage, not because i was`nt sure kinda got fed up of lookin about

The only other things i have on the car that are red is the TOM`S logo and my cooling panel, but i`m still deciding weather to pain the front strut brace red or not ? But as many of you have requested here is a pic from a bit further back..... with my mates EK9 in it aswell

But no seriously here is one

Got my local sign designer to copy the logo for me and just gave them sizes that i would like it to be, they just traced the logo that i got from googling the image, think its turned out not bad really

What do you think ....

The guys left his number there so, if he sounds genuine enough, then go for it

I did get a front mount a while ago from HDI, but i did`nt like it at all ! I`ve seen a few guys on here with some success but for me it did`nt fit well, as i found out i clashed with the front fog lights, so which in turn made it a bit of a b*****d to put the bumper back on. The kit was supposed to fit with the A/C but it was a bit of a struggle, with things being a bit tight for space and also having the A/C fan in the way. In short i personally did`nt like it so it had to go for sale, along with my HKS SSQV2, because i had a mate fabricate the mounting cup for the BOV on the inlet pipe..

I dont think i`ll be spending a huge amount of money on the car a present, becuase i have a planned trip to Australia in October, so need to save the pennies

The car is pretty clean, i`m the first uk owner of the car since i got it from Andy at 200bhp cars about a year and a half ago.

The car has had no front end damage at all

The strut brace i got from JDM Performance, the handling mods are more managable and comfortable to live with than coilovers i think..

The front splitter is from a Seat cupra-R

Well up here in sunny scotland, we have had hardly any snow, apart from most of the snow has landed on the surrounding hills, although we have had a small dusting to snow today

I think i`m neeeding a well earned update on this i think, so here goes.............

Since my last post i have got

mild steel manifolds fitted and de-cat

HKS Actuator

C`s Quickshift

Uprated the dampers with Koni`s with RS-R springs

Rear strut brace fitted

Carbing cooling panel

I`ve got a Forge BOV waiting to be fitted

And timing belt done about 20 miles ago

+ generaly tided the car up here and there

Pic to go with it ................

Done !

Like the colour of the manifolds, mental size of turbo though

Best of luck buddy

I`m in for Knockhill

Welcome to the UKSC

I`d be still up for a meet at knockhill next month around 21st or the 22nd if this is still wantin to go ahead

Seriously jealous , looks good though