And welcome to the January 2010 edition of the NeoVVL Newsletter.
We hope everyone had a good new year and santa was good to every one.
Modifications and Stuff
We are going to kick off with "Wee Fee"'s new purchase. After driving the a Ford Focus for a while, she went back to the Almera GTi, unfortunately it is a driving MOT failure, so she decided to have a look on Piston Heads for another Nissan Almera. She stumbled accross an beautiful baby blue Phase I Almera GTi. She has a lot of plans and no doubt will annoy "The Stig" for doing the maintenence. After another 750 mile round trip to get it a nice drive back home with it. The wiring in the car was pretty poor to be honest. After a day removing all the dodgy wiring, things are all looking up for the new Almera. The car did pass it's MOT, however the CV boots were burst and the CV Joints are now completly goosed. The new CV joints have arrived and just waiting to be fitted. For Christmas "Wee Fee" recieved a new CD player with SD/MMC, USB, and Aux In. Its all fitted and raring to go. We can not wait to see what other plans are expected with it.
For the full story, Click Here
I think a big congradulations is in order for "GTIRWezz". His car was recently featured in Decembers Banzai Magazine. Well worth purchasing if you can get hold of one. Makes a fantastic read. Its a credit to all the hard work and dedication of the beautiful Almera from "GTIRWezz". He is also a credit to the forum and offers fantastic support and information for people who is looking to do a swap.
For the full story, Click Here
"The Stig" got his P11 Primera GT back on the road after replacing pretty much all the suspension parts on it. Unfortunatly December was a bad month for the GT, and had 2 minor bumps. First one was the mirror smashed clean off. Second of all was a 30 ton lorry denting the back end of the car and cracking the whole bumper. "The Stig" is now seriously considering getting another Primera, and the Model GTSE in Mystic. We shall see what the next few months brings.
Details can be seen by Clicking Here
One of our newer members "Iv4r" showed us some details of a VE swap into his Nissan Primera.
His Thread can be viewed if you Click Here.
One of our older members "Raceworx" showed off his nice new Ph 2 Nissan Almera. He is in process of getting that VE powered. Unfortunatly an accident happened in the old Almera, but he is assured to have this one a beauty. Well good luck to him on this one.
To see his project, Click Here.
Another new member "fwd_n14_andy" showed us some info on swapping a VE into his Nissan Sunny. He is expected to have this complete by May 2010.
To see his project, Click Here.
Meetings and Events
There are no meetings to report on this month.
Forum News & Stuff
2009 was a busy year for the NeoVVL Owners Club. We have exceeded the 1000 users mark, the 10000 post mark. Despite the early days of the board, we have successfully became a good Owners Club for the SR16VE/SR20VE enthusiasts. We will be looking to clean up the forum a bit in the next few weeks, and look to update the Info and How To forums. We hope to have a successfull 2010 like we did in 2009.
Final Thought
We welcome all Nissan Enthusiasts to the forum, wether your considering getting a VE engine, have a VE engine, or just generally interested in one, we welcome every one to the forum, even if your a former owner. We offer a free service, and advertisement free forum. We offer tools which other forums may charge a fee for. If you need to upload your photo's or pictures, you can do so. We have unlimited web space to use and plenty bandwidth to allow all of our forum members a good experience. All we ask is you respect other forum members, and don't spam the forum. Spamming we take very seriously so think before you do it. We have the tools to trace who you are and details will be sent to your ISP regarding this. Its a breach of the terms of use of the forum.
We all hope you have a good 2010, we hope you stick to your resolutions. We always incourage keeping the racing and drag to the specialized events, and keep it off the roads.
We hope to you you all next month.
Happy New Year
The NeoVVL Team.