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Project S12/26
First RB S12 in the US - First RB20DET and RB26DETT S12 in the US

This is my ride.  It was my first car I bought and since then have owned 12 other S12s to date.  It was my daily driver until only a year and a half ago.  At first, I was thinking that drifting would be my motorsport of choice but in the past couple of years I have since found time attacks/course work much more appealing.  I was in need of a car and enlisted the help of one of my friends who knew much more about cars than I did.  It was he who found her for sale in the newspaper in April of '04.  I went and checked her out and immediately fell in love.  At that time, I had no concept of what the car was, as per being a Silvia, nor all the possibilities.  The most I knew about cars and such was Initial D, which I had been watching since '01, the influences of my older brother who grew up favoring the Z31, and watching Night Rider as a kid.

I just did the basic maintenance and basic driving. I drove to SoCal in August of '04 without problems... surprisingly after finding out later how much my engine bay was messed up. The person before me did some really ghetto wiring in an attempt to fix it up after they had a fire in the engine bay. The problems that could have arisen were a lot and I'm thankful that nothing did. A bit later, I needed something to occupy my mind so I decided to fix her up. That's when the madness started.