whats up from Japan!

[cool-shi]

Greetings to you all!!

I have been watching this website for a long time since I bought my own ti in Japan back in 2005...and decided to join finally.

I lived in Arizona in my childhood then to California for college then came back to Japan for work.
In Cali, I owned a Civic SI HTBK and then Corolla GTS (AE86) to drift.
"cool-shi" was my license number in Cali. the last letter you can imagine...

My first car to buy in Japan, is this '98 special edition 318ti in esteriol blue M3 color with leather heated seats...unfortunately there is only AT tranny in Japan.

I have done many mods except in the engine part and also made it AT to 5sp tranny now using 3.91 lsd diff from E30.
Originally I had the heavy 18/19" Breyton Vision wheels but changed to lightweight 19"WedsSports SA-67R last year.
One of kind would be the brake setup, I fabricated the Lexas LS monoblock 4pot front calipers w/M3CSL rotors and for the rears fabricated the R33 Skyline 2pot calipers w/X5 rotors.
And replaced the cat with the R34 Skyline metal cat.

looking forward to exchanging informations and making new contacts abroad!
also anyone out in Troy,Michigan area i go to business trips occasionally so we can meet up??

thanks,
cool-shi