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It has been a long time coming! In the late 1990’s I fell in love with drifting, the style of both the cars and the way they were driven (especially in Japan) stuck with me and it still does to this day. My first drift car was a 180SX, followed by my two tone S13 […]

As I write this I am 11 hours into a 14 hour flight and have finally had some time to reflect on the last 10 days in the workshop. This year has been nothing short of exciting, I have spent years wondering if ETS could become a full time job and now I am making […]

It’s been a busy couple of months, since moving into my new space I have been adament not to waste any time during the setup phase. In the first two minutes that I laid eyes on this space I new what I wanted it to transform into and piece by piece its happening. The central […]

You may remember a post titled Stacking cars a little while back when I built these car racks. Throughout my social channels the resounding most asked question has to be “How do I get them up there” or “How do I get them down” So when it came time to get the Hilux down from […]

Too many three letter acronyms for you? Well I’ll expand it out, Rising Sun Workshop in Newtown Sydney is a communal home for motorcycle lovers, it gives RSW members a garage to work on their own bikes with the tools to do so both physically and metaphoricaly. You see its not only the tools to […]

Last year was a big year for me, I really put my focus into moving forward with the PS13 project and put off any offers to take the Hilux out on track. You have to understand that track days are not the easiest things to do, from the trade stand preparations that happen a month […]

It has been a crazy last few weeks/months, I want to say it went fast but now that I look back on the progress I have made in that time it feels like a lot longer. The Sydney Motorcycle Expo is fast approaching and I have been doing a lot of work for a few […]

It probably started around year 11 at High School, I enrolled in metal class and quickly became exposed to the possibilities of steel and the craft of working with it. Its not about being the perfect welder, the perfect sheetmetal shaper, the lathe artist or having the newest CNC mill on the market, its about […]

Only a few weeks ago I was on the other side of the world, enjoying the summer sun and taking in all the amazing sights America had to offer through the window of 1965 Ford van, the honeymoon had to end at some point, I had to return back home and get back into my […]