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“Nah it’s cool man, you’ve got like, a mil of clearance.”

It took about 45mins to get to Sam across some of the roughest, guard-eating, scrape inducing stretches of road that Sydney has to offer. This happened on a Monday night in a car that has literally been stuck on a driveway due to its ridiculous ride height, has scraped on flat road, and with neither of us having any reasonable idea in how to actually get to our photo-shoot location (no one ever said we were smart). But all of this was worth it, because honestly, we were both sick of photoshoots in parking lots. After finally finding China Town and spending about 30mins finding a parking spot, and apologising to the very unfortunate owner of a certain Golf R which Sandy revered into, we reached Sam and his S15 looking smoother than Alex Turner’s haircut.

With no spoiler and near flawless panels this car struts a clean shaven look that is guaranteed to simultaneously piss-off and stun any Japanese fan boy, whether from jealously or awe. A full Vertex body kit complements the stance of this S15 perfectly, only highlighted by a beautifully gutter-rashless set of Work Emotion XD9s. Slammed on a full set of Fortune auto 500 series coil overs with Whiteline front and rear strut braces, all adjustable camber caster and toe arms and a sway bar, this car has enough suspension gear to stay as planted to the ground as an oak tree. And did I mention the turbo? There’s a big f***ing turbo.  

A T185z 8cm turbo with Nistune Ecu, 800cc injectors, HKS boost controller, front mount intercooler, full custom exhaust system and basically any other mod you can think of, so if you are foaming at the mouth a little right now you have the right to. Point being, she’s more than just a pretty face.

Now never mind, the fact that we took a Japanese car to China town (yes, we did realise that), after scraping our way into an unassuming alleyway, moving various shop-keeper’s garbage bins, lifting Sandy onto ledges to take bird’s eye shots and quite possibly parking in an area that specifically said ‘no stopping’ to take a few hundred photos we realised this location was perfect (I mean, just look at how those parkers match the neons!). It may have cost us 4 hours, a Golf R bumper and a little bit of our pride but we could to see one insane S15 and avoid being defected. Awesome.