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Meet Yoshi out of Phoenix, Arizona and his beautiful Nissan S14 guys! Within the first 2 weeks of purchasing this "all primer and broken" ride (zenki front end, head light busted, hood and fenders messed up, etc.) he was able rebuild in his garage. Everything from body work to paint, Yoshi with the help of a couple of his friend finished it all! This '95 240SX Zenki was converted to full front kouki swap and that's just the beginning. Yoshi went with the stylish Origin body kits along with the mean looking D-max Hood & fenders. Then came wheels, suspension, seats, paint and the list goes on!

Photos By: Andy Parra exclusively for StanceNation.com


When it came time for shoes, Yoshi went with the aggressive Varrstoen wheels in 18x10.5 with +15 offset all around wrapped in 235/40/18 tire. Car also features K-sport Coilovers and sits just right in our opinion. Yoshi could have easily ran a smaller profile tire to slam the car more to the ground but he chose not to. The "posture" is just right for this particular car and we give our hats off to Yoshi for not overdoing it! Check out more photos below as well as what else Yoshi has planned for this sexy S14.



So what does the fututre hold for this already fresh looking ride? Well, Yoshi was initially going to drop in a full LS1 swap but since he is already an owner of a street bike and an STI (being built) funds just aren't there at the moment. Instead he is going for a 2JZ full motor swap & turbo in the next couple of months. He'll also be refreshing the exterior some more by adding 50mm rear wide body by orgin, Full Roll cage w/Takata Harness a set of much wider wheels (with plenty of lip) and that's just the beginning! It sounds to us like a more in depth feature is in the making already. Give it some time, you'll definitely see Yoshi's ride here again! Hit the Read More button to check out rest of the photos!











Big shout out to Andy for hooking us up with the photos as well as Yoshi of course. If you think you your ride is ready to be showcased on S:N please drop us an email at snfeatures@gmail.com with a few photos of your car! Also, make sure you like our facebook fanapage if you haven't already!

Just over 2 years ago Vogue Auto Design out of England approached RAUH Welt with the hope of purchasing one of their wide body aero conversions for their customers 964 Turbo. They were told that they do not export and if they wanted the RWB treatment, they'll have to ship the car to Japan, something their customer just didn’t want to do. Fast forward a couple of years, Lee's & Nick's (VAD crew) desire to have a RWB 993R was even bigger, so they decided to contact the RAUH Welt crew again. Toshi-san not only made their dreams come true but also after seeing the work that VAD has put out he granted them not only sole European rights to the RWB brand, and since VAD has a branch in Perth Western Australian Toshi-san granted them Australian rights as well. How awesome is that!?




After purchasing the aero parts the heat was on to find a car as Nakai-san was planning his world tour of UK, Thailand & United States, so time was in short supply as he would land in the UK at the end of September right before flying out to Thailand. Luckily Lee & Nick managed to find a one owner, very low millage, C2 Tiptronic Porsche! The VAD fellas knew that the Tiptronic was not going to be to every ones taste but as its built for VAD to showcase the aero installation they bit the bullet. Nakai-san was actually also stoked to build the first tiptronic, he loved it! So, the build began!



The car was stripped of every component inside and out, prepped, primed and eventually painted in the "Lamborghini Grigio Telesto" paint. They also ended up painting the faces of the SSR Professor SP1 same color, all while awaiting the arrival of the master himself. While waiting on Nakai-san, Nick decided to look around for Porsche parts. Upon his scouring for bits and pieces, he found a set of GT2 Carbon backed Alcantara seats. The decisions was then made to have the complete interior done in Alcantara to match the seats along with the RS style door cards. Other bits that they source purchased and installed have been the Bilstein coilover suspension kit (which is just so amazingly comfortable considering there is zero movement and its wound down to its lowest setting). They then installed their very own VAD-built stainless exhaust system and upgraded the headers, with a complete upgraded breather system and an ECU enhancement. For all the people that feel like the tiptronic transmission just doesn't sound right, the car is available for viewing and VAD encourages you to come down to their shop and drive it. "It does not disappoint", VAD tells us. Hit the Read More button for more photos!





Over the next few days Nakai-san showed Nick and the VAD crew how to install the aero parts for future builds. Nakai-san was extremely impressed with the overall finish of the car and being that this car is a first European RWB build, he had no hesitation in naming the car NUMBER ONE. The car is all finished off with SSR SP1's in 18x10.5's up front with 265/35/18 tire and 18x13 in the rear with 335/30/18 tires!








The car hasn’t been built that long ago but it’s time for a makeover. They will be ditching the rear wing and installing a new engine lid along with fitting our own Bespoke built Forged wheels. SSR Professor SP1's are a beautiful wheel there is no doubt about that, but seeing how VAD are wheel specialists themselves, fitting wheels with spacers goes against the grain! With that said, VAD has partnered up with DPE Wheels and are in the process of building 2 bespoke wheel designs specifically for RWB Porsches. Both designs will be manufactured using the Porsche 5x130 PCD and will feature a center lock application. Their wheel designs will be slightly wider in the 18” size and will also have a 19” option with sizing 19x10.5 up front and 19x13.5 rears fitted with 275/30/19 and 355/25/19 tires. With build slots being already taken until mid 2012, the future seems to be very bright for RWB& VAD. Truly, 2012 promises to be pretty spectacular year and we can not wait to see what else they come out with.







With all that said, we would like to give a huge shout out to everyone involved in this incredible build. Nakai, Toshi, Lee, Nick and everyone else! It's an honor to bring you these exclusive photos and even a bigger honor to partner up with as amazing of a company as Vogue Auto Design. We would also like to wish VAD & RWB the best of luck (even though it doesn't seem like they need any). Until next time!



Check out a few videos on VAD's facebook and make sure you like their page!

We've been meaning to put this 2008 Civic Sedan Si up on our site for a while now but pumping out new features everyday can get a bit overwhelming at times. Owner Ryan Gold out of Southern California purchased his Civic with only 4 miles on the odometer, and for the longest time he was trying to decide whether to just mount a turbo on and daily his car, or doing what he fortunately ended up doing. Slammed, fitted & extremely sexy looking are the words we like to use to describe this Civic sedan. Our good friend Brendan met up with Ryan recently in Santa Barbara and this is what he captured.

Photos By: Brendan Bannister exclusively for StanceNation.com


Let's start from from those sexy feet and work our way up. Work VS-XX sit in 17x9 all around wrapped in 205/40/17 tire on this sedan while the Buddy Club N coilovers help broung the car down to on the ground. Ryan also invested some more of his time getting the camber where he wants it with the help of Ingalls front camber bolts and Skunk2 rear camber arms. Lastly, he added a Megan rear tie bar to finish things off. We're not sure about you but we would not mind daily driving this. Talk about being jealous!



Besides the fitment, where this car really shines for us is that whole rear end. The combination of Seibon CF rear diffuser on the FD2 rear bumper and OEM FD2 tail lights is just amazing. When Ryan added the Do-luck style VIS Ccarbon fiber JDM trunk to the car everything started making sense. It's got that nice "JDM inspired" look going for it while at the same time retaining the "USDM" touch. It doesn't stop there though as Ryan added plenty of other things to the outside that can barely be spotted but work magnificently. For example, smaller things like the S2000 side markers and the custom headlight projectors really do add a nice touch to the car while the more noticable things such as the Seibon CF hood and HFP front lip set the whole front end off. Hit the Read More button below.















Since Ryan initially wanted to go the "functional" route, he spent some time under that Seibon hood. There are list of things that were added such as injen CAI, p2r TB spacer and gaskets, cf password:jdm intake manifold cover, LSD catback, green sparkle valve cover, green egr block off plate, jdm mugen quick shifter, spoon reservoir covers, etc. It may not be the fastest thing out there but it can certainly move, to say the least. On the inside Ryan added a an aftermarket shift knob, Mugen mirror cover, broadway mirror, zebra pattern door inserts, he removed the rear seats entirely, megan racing lower c-pillar bar, Godspeed x brace, led map lights, DC5R recaros, takata harness and the list goes on.





"So what else is there to do", we asked Ryan. His response, "I honestly couldn't tell you. My car is a never ending project. Its always changing. Maybe go form & function route and work on the motor? But it is my daily so I can't get too crazy", was his response. Mind you, he emailed us over all the specs about a week ago though just last night he told us that his wheels are already for sale. With that said, if there is anyone interested feel free to drop a comment below with your email address and Ryan will get back to you. On that note we'll wrap this feature up. Huge thanks to our friend Brandon Bannister from Third World Society for shooting the car for us and of course Ryan himself! You'll be seeing more of this car in the near future!

Just a few days ago a Skyline club by the name of Skyline Yushikai hosted a meeting at Fuji Speedway. Yushikai pretty much translates to "Skyline Warrior Club" and the members are all classic Skyline owners. This was their annual central Japan meeting and one of our newest Japanese photographers Park Baker was kind enough to cover the event for us. Most of the cars that showed up are from near Tokyo, but a few drove from up to 9 or 10 hours away. There were about 100 cars in attendance, with almost all of them being pre-1980 skylines. Besides Skylines there were also many other classic Nissans present. We'll open the coverage up with this beautiful Nissan Skyline C110 GT-R "Kenmeri" on top!

Photos By: Park Baker exclusively for StanceNation.com


This gorgeous Nissan C210 Skyline 2000 GT-ES had everything going for it. It looked as if it just rolled of the showroom floor. It may not be everyones favorite generation but we love it. Perhaps the bright red KPGC-10 in the back may tickle your fancy? Make sure you scroll down on the very bottom of this post to see more of it.



We posted a photo of this widebody Nissan S30 Fairlady-Z on our facebook yesterday which you seemed to love very much. Particularly the ridiculously wide lips of those Panasport G7 C8S wheels. No idea on the width or offsets unfortunately. Make sure you hit the Read More button below for a ton more photos!













This Nissan Skyline C110 2000 GT looked stunning! What do you guys think!?








Obviously not a Skyline but this Nissan C130 Laurel SGX was definitely sexy!






Another Nissan Skyline C110 2000 GT.



And of course the Nissan Skyline C110.


Nissan Skyline C110 2000 GT "Kenmeri"




Then we come to this thing. It's a Nissan 610 Bluebird-U GTX rocking a set of unique SSR Techno Shadow wheels. We're pretty speechless at the moment so we'll let the photos do the talking.















Last but not least we have this awesome Nissan Skyline KPGC-10 GT-R sitting on some flashy Watanabes! Quite an attractive color combo on this bad boy wouldn't you say?

When was the last time you saw a "stanced" E39? Better yet, when was the last time you saw one rocking 13" wide wheels with negative offsets? If you're like us, the answer to the first question is that "it's been a while", and to the second question..well, never. What's going to be even more surprising to you is that this bad boy comes to us all the way from Ukraine! It belongs to a guy by the name of Pavel Kravchenko who is eager to hear what rest of the world thinks of his E39! To us it's definitely one of the nicest E39's that we've seen in a while. Perhaps, it's the dopest one we've seen in recent times, agree?

Photos By: Xima exclusively for StanceNation.com


Pavel also takes the cake for having the most miles on his car. Odometer currently shows 478,000 miles to be exact, though the new setup only has 10,000 miles on it. Under the hood sits a vf-supercharger pushing 415 HP, Alpina intake manifold, M5 LSD 3.15 and a Magnaflow muffler that gives the car just what it needed. At wide open throttle the combination of the Magnaflows and the VF-SC will literally wake the dead up. But enough about that. Take a look at how well this E39 sits!



With the help of Weitec Hicon GT Coilovers and some super aggressive OZ Futura, you can feel this presence of this E39. Before he did any fender work, Pavel got in touch with Felgen Garage out of Germany who were able to provide him with a set of those OZ Fuituras in 18x10 & 18x12.25. He eventually ended up redoing the wheels where they now sit fresh and clean at 18x10 (2) in the front and 18x13 (-5) in the rears. Front tires are 245/35/18 while the rears are 265/35/18's! As crazy as that sounds, it gets even crazier. When Pavel mounted the wheels on they were sticking out almost 6" past the fenders in the rear. 6" is not something you can just "pull" which meant it was time for some body work. He ended up cutting them in 5 places, bending and pulling them out than welding them. No bondo, no weld-ons and no over-fenders. Hit the Read More button for more photos of this beast!













It actually took a bit more than just fender work to make these puppies fit. A touch of camber, some stretched tires, and a nice drop was a must. Pavel also spent some time working on other parts of his suspension such as installing Weichers strut bar, Eibach Anti-Roll kit and Beastpower rear sway bar brackets. The overall look of this thing is just deadly, check out these shots below.







Other small touches that were added was a complete M5 cluster and custom fog lights with air intakes. He finished the car off with a fresh coat of paint and called it a day. When we asked Pavel what he has lined up in the future for this beast, he told us that there is still quite a few things that need to be done. He wants the front end a bit closer to the ground so he'll be putting on a Alpina lip, dropping the car another centimeter, and of course a new set of wheels that will be slightly more aggressive than the current ones. You can also expect Pavel to spend more time under the hood raising those horsepower numbers dramatically. Be on the lookout for that very soon!







We'll end this feature with a huge thank you to Xima for shooting Pavel's ride for us and of course Pavel himself. It's seriously an honor to be able to show you guys cars from all over the world, can't stress it enough. It may take plenty of time and effort, but it's all worth it in the end! Big shout out to all of our Ukranian fans for your support! We'll be seeing you all on our forums and our facebook!