Getting back to the english vibes here in the Superior-Blog, I would like to share with you my 50% envious 50% painful (for the body) road tip with the newly Swedish registered Nissan Skyline DR30 RS-Turbo done over the past weekend!
This trip came as a blessing from the sky as the old JDM war-machine passed through the mechanical tests with ease, and all those preparations on the tough paperwork made it equally smooth to get it authorized for the Swedish roads legally.
Seeing how summer had long ended, and that we are in typical Swedish fashion really cursed with unpredictable weather- I decided it was my last chance to do something as a car-enthusiast before a long spell where I would lock myself in my office to prepare for 2012.
The hit-list was easy to make up, I had to visit SIR_PIERRE and one of my recently added favorite cities Malmö– thus starting the trip from bottom and up. Then the journey would go upwards, passing Helsingborg and do a grande finale in quality (how do you like the picture below??) kind of photoshoot with Martin BILBILDER.SE Persson, also adding some nice social interaction to finally meet his lady Caroline that he is engaged with.
Then we would do a quick sprint past a quite impressive garage a few customers have filled with JDM-cars to then finish the trip in Växjö at Superior Workshop Syd (where the Skyline will do its winter sleep and get plenty of love).
Friday:
I love going away, who doesn’t? But no matter how well you prepare it always seem to be something getting in the way. This time though it was just a matter of patience, as the ugly unpredictability of Swedish climate had made everything frozen and slippery outside early morning. But starting the journey 1.5 hours later made everything fine even for a car running on some very old Bridgestone summer tries.
The demons of doubt in how a 30 year old car we so far have spent no more then 20km behind the wheel of would do on a road trip this long made the first 100km quite tense and nervous. ”Would the main engine-bearings suddenly die” and desperate thoughts like that plagued my mind, and I think I spent 75% looking at the different meters that show temperature/pressure and only 20% on the road.
But after that and a first pit stop which with some additional tuning to the tires air-pressure (we make it sound advanced!) and checking the oil etc… Things finally loosened up a bit. I knew that if it would last this far, not doing anything stupid would probably make it last the entire trip.
Oh yeah, the rest of my attention if you got the math above to just 95% was to setup a good playlist on the phone to endure the monotonic sound a 4 cylinder FJ20ET engine makes; coupled with a fully stripped from sound-deadening material chassis.
Its not pretty for the ears, so Deadmau5 beats surely helped to endure it. Also had to give in to some odd craving of eating a ”Angry Whopper” and at occasions really felt as a thing were going on in true Charlie Sheen ”winning” style!
Not going to get into detail on how the 600km passed by, it was just… free of trouble and liberating. The only fail was that we couldn’t get the schedule to work with meeting up with our #1 carbon and racing products (MajoR Aero) guy Mr. MA.
(I later found out as the Skyline was riding with others, that the speedometer showed 20km/h less then it should. Go figure that it took ages despite thinking we were running hardcore!)
Finally arriving in Malmö and at the ever so generous in hospitality SIR_PIERRE (you should read his blog if you are a bro’ and love women, cars, gadgets, luxury etc) we took our time to chill down a bit and met another cool dude in the mythically hyped Patrik.
He really knew his shit on many subjects- plus that he was riding a really sick trike which caught my eye too. Has anyone seen this kind of… bicycle (?!) before?!
Anyway, he advised us to a nice Italian place which in combination with the drinks afterwards really gave us a good nights sleep. Really want to thank Pierre for this, he is a real gentleman who despite his flashy habits (try and make out what that sucker is wearing on his arm…) is extremely down to earth and a hell of a genuine guy.
Too bad he hides it way too often and loves to mess around with the typical ”mellow milk” kind of people we have here in Sweden. My #1 advice when it comes to this man is… take it with a grain of salt and just love him! 😉
All in all, a great success as some funny character might have said about this entire day! And I was almost embarrassed about how few problems this old whip gave me, even the milage seemed fantastic going just over 1 litre on 10km. Someone up there must really like these old Skylines…
…and thats where we stop and announce that next is where Martin BILBILDER.SE Persson comes into the picture; and you will know more about how the header pic in this post came about.
Still hoping you enjoy some blogging about social life that comes with the lifestyle here at the Superior-Blog… 🙂
Men hittills är allting OK, och det var sannerligen längesen man åkte riktig sportbil även om dagens provtur knappast sträckte på benen- vilken härlig maskin att köra! Har alltid hållt BCNR33 generationen som den allra mest kompletta för pengarna och hyllat dess underbara vilja att vara både en knixig vagn för såväl ”GT Touring” som ”Track”. Allra mest underskattat är ju att detta är en i jämförelse med många andra JDM-bilar mer av en ”redig bil” där chassiet känns riktigt gediget och interiören inte trillar isär eller knakar i samtliga (plast) fogar. Kommer berätta mer om denna bil som kommer gå ut till salu inom kort så fort vi verkligen hårdgranskat den och sett till att den är 100%. Men vad sägs om den sexiga färgen i kombination med Weds fälgarna i brons, samt då kolfiberläppen på det i bra harmoni på vad HKS Hipermax III chassiet ger den i hållning? 🙂 
Väldigt sparsamt skruvad med också, men de delar som bytts är enbart av nobla märken som HKS, OS Giken, Nismo och dylikt. Men spec kommer senare, just nu ställer vi bara er läsare den uppenbara frågan… Hade 
Idag var det klent med nyheter på kontoret, har fortsatt rodda i diverse eftersläp och även lyckats få ner nya iOS5 till iPhone som till skillnad från tiden med Nokia, Windows och allt vad det kan heta gick oförskämt smidigt. Man blir snabbt bortskämd med Apple och börjar hitta mer och mer i den iMac som nu pryder skrivbordet! 🙂
Har innan och efter Superior Meet 2011 kommit av mig lite med mailkorgen, men med lite pillande på den nya iMac som införskaffats så är allt redo för att göra ett rejält ryck idag.