07 / 13 — Garage
Current obsession: racing.
A 430,000 km Fortuner I'm building the safe way, a bike in MotoGP colours on the way, and a shelf of 1:64 cars that started it all.
Build sheet · 01
2012 Toyota Fortuner
- Engine
- 3.0 D4D diesel, stock
- Gearbox
- Automatic
- Odometer
- About 430,000 km
- Intake
- 70 mm CIS cold-air intake, stock MAF housing
- Weight
- Third-row seats removed
- Exhaust
- Stock
- Next
- Safe stage-1 remap · switchable sport mode
Red dirt, black wheelsPlate blurred
Done · Feb 2026
Injectors replaced
The big risk on a high-mile D4D, handled first.
Done · 2026
Engine, gearbox, fuel tank
Full service and a fuel-tank clean before any power goes in.
Done · 2026
Intake & weight
70 mm intake in; third-row seats out.
Next
Stage-1 remap
A sporty tune you can feel, built to keep the engine healthy.
The reel · “Hmm.”Instagram
Most-watched
10K.
One dusty slide, one word of caption, ten thousand views. My most-watched reel is a two-tonne SUV going sideways, and the second is a Red Bull edit at 10.8K. People came for the cars.
Build sheet · 02 · Planned
Aprilia RS 457, GP Replica.
Next in the garage: Aprilia's 457 cc twin in the GP Replica livery, inspired by the RS-GP MotoGP bike. The numbers:
- 457 cc parallel twin
- 47.6 CV at 9,400 rpm
- 43.5 Nm at 6,700 rpm
- 6-speed · slipper clutch
- Ride-by-wire · 3 riding modes
- Traction control · dual-channel ABS
Race-day energyHelmet on
The paddock
F1. MotoGP. 1:64.
Red Bull India private eventBhubaneswar · 2026
The shelf
Hot Wheels: the first garage.
Every build starts somewhere. Mine started at 1:64 scale.
