SEMA... pt1

Well as usual i waited till the last minute to pick up passes at registration. But it turned out to be good since i was able to walk around and snap some spy shots before there was too many people. This is also a functiontheory first, as this is the first time we were recognized by SEMA as a media business, thus granting us OFFICIAL passes to SEMA. not like other passes we have gotten in the past. so here is my adventure from today it mainly is the outside front area, and then the central hall. i will be going to SEMA for the next three days. so look forward to new photos every night.

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FUNCTION CERTIFIED

            The army grows stronger. Thanks to Blake for sending us his amazingly clean, yet uber functional car. We are glad to see that he put his money into where it counts, the MOTOR!!!  Not only did he slap a super charger on it. but he also replaced each cruicial weak link that would fail with all the extra hp, larger injectors, walbro fuel pump, stage 4 clutch, and upgraded brakes to help slow it down. the car is done very well. Blakes car has been dyno tuned and is making 277 WHP, and 188 LB/tq.

Mod list


Engine:
Jackson Racing Supercharger
Acura RDX Injectors/ TC Clips
Walbro 255 Fuel Pump
AEM Cold Air Intake
Competition Stage 4 Clutch
Competition Flywheel
Hybrid Racing EM1 Clutch Master Cylinder Kit
Kidd Racing Header
T1R 63s Cat-back
FlashPro Dyno Tuned by Performance Motorsport Smithtown,NY

Exterior:
Front HFP Lip
Rear HFP Lip
HFP Sideskirts
JDM Front Badge with Custom Gold/Black Overlay
Yellow Fog 3000k Hid's
10000k Hid Headlight Kit
Seibon Carbon Fiber Trunk
Carbon Fiber Roof Spoiler

Suspension/Wheels:
Rota Boosts Gold 17x8 +35
Go-Power V1 Coilovers
HFP Rotors/Pads


 
Interior:
Hyper White LED Dome Lights
Pioneer AVIC-F700BT Deck
Kicker L5/Kicker 300W Amp
Skunk2 Weighted Shift Knob
Auger Shift Boot
XLR8 Dual Gauge Kit
Innovate Wideband Gauge
Autometer Boost Gauge

WHP/Tq:
277 WHP, 188 LB/Tq

Photo credit. Street Image photography. these are some great pictures.

2600 miles, the Texas tale

                As many of you know i traveled to Fort Worth Texas for the Wekfest tour. Hopefully everyone saw the article from Wekfest that i posted a week ago. if not click here to check it out. now as promised the article about the journey there.
 
  So most of you are thinking why did we drive all the way to Fort Worth from Las Vegas? well we did it to prove to everyone that your daily driver can also double as a track car or vice versa. we also did it to show everyone that we aint bitches, we build our shit and drive it, no trailer queens here. straight pipes, roll cages, racing seats and harnesses, and pillow ball mounts. you name and my car has it. Built and daily driven...
 Our story starts off Friday the day before the show. MapQuest says its going to be an 18 hour, 1300 mile drive. so we leave at 6am pacific time since we will be going through 2 time zones we will be two hours difference by the time we get into Texas. We fill up and are on our way. Not even 15 miles into our trip there are already two separate accidents

 

I was only able to get the camera out for the second one. i didn't realize that i would need the camera out this early in the trip. this one involved a school  bus and this car. once we got out of Vegas everything was flowing smoothly untill we pulled over just outside flagstaff for gas. this is what i saw when i got out of the car to pump some gas.

I have still have NO IDEA how and the hell this happened, we never heard or saw anything come off the car. so to add to our radicalness we rocked no front turn signal all the way there and back. so by this point im starting to think that it might not have been a good idea to drive my car, two car accidents and a blinker that just falls out. its not like i just put them on either they have been on the car for at least 3 years with no issues. so im thinking that maybe there is a higher power telling me that i shouldn't be doing this. Fuck it, were going to Texas. so we continue on issue free, all the way to Gallup New Mexico, talk about a shit town. this is also where i came into another issue that i did not think of. these towns in the middle of no where do not have good gas, by that i mean 91octane. my car is running 11.0-1 compression and the highest that i saw in the first gas station i stopped at was 90 Octane. well about 25 min and no joke 13 gas stations later we finally came across a Chevron that actually had 91, that was a close one. We also made our first food stop their as well. The most appetizing thing we could find was a Denny's, which like the town was crap.  We pressed on,  now keeping in mind that we had to stop at a gas station that had 91octane. So on through Albuquerque and almost to Texas  we made our  third gas stop i forget the name of the town. but we ran into the same Octane problem, this time even the Chevron didn't have 91. we came across a Phillips 66 that had 91, im not sure of there quality but later we found that the Midwest was littered with them and at least i new it was 91.

 

Many people warned me about how boring this drive would be, but i went on ahead despite their warnings. i said FUCK IT i love to drive an i love an adventure, but this truly was one of the most boring drives i have ever done. straight and flat as far as the eye can see. we continued on all the way to Amarillo Texas with hopes of seeing the Cadillac ranch, but by the time we got to there it was dark out. we did however stop and see the Cadillac ranch but unfortunately it was to dark to get any pictures of it.  So back on the road through Amarillo and on to the 287 taking us through the smallest little hick towns ever. we made a fuel stop and we surpised to find this

HELL YEA 93 octane. Friking zoom zoom zoom, my car was loving it. let me just say that TEXAS you are so lucky, but unfortunately there is a night time speed limit in Texas which is 65mph and a day speed limit of 70mph which only being a five mile an hour difference still meant that we couldn't fly through the night. At this stop it was 12 am Texas time. when we stopped to get gas of course we were getting stares. Nevada plates, lowered, loud ass Honda. Anyway i get out to pump gas and notice a few good ol' boys looking at us, im thinking...great welcome to Texas now leave. I had to go into pay for the gas, for some reason it would take my card. When i came back out the good ol' boys were now in front of my car talking to my brother about my car. they turned out to be pretty nice and they thought my car was a DRIFT car, LOL. you know drifting is popular if small hick towns in Texas know about it. so on through those small towns and finally stopping at 2am at a rest stop just outside of Childress to sleep. we were just going to pitch a tent and sleep in it, but there were signs all over the rest area that said watch out for rattle snakes. so we opted to sleep in the car. I laid out the air mattresses where the rear seats would be in a stock civic and slept there, and my brother slept in the passenger seat that didn't recline since the roll cage is behind it. with the alarm set for 6 am, and the car alarm on. we dozed off , BAM 6am came quick so i hit snooze three times then just turned the alarm off and we ended up sleeping till 730 am. with the show starting at 1pm that didn't leave us much time to get there, but at least now it was day time speed limit so we could push on at a good pace. we managed to roll into Fort worth with about an hour to spare. we parked and went to stand in line. after the show i wanted to get a whataburger they don't have them on the west coast and i heard that they were good, it turned out to be really good. Now being almost 6pm Texas time we decided to head back to Las Vegas since i had to work on Monday and my brother had school. for the trip back we didn't even sleep we just drove all the way through to Vegas, fueled by rockstars and the desire to sleep in a real bed. we drove straight through the night reaching Vegas at 11am pacific time. sorry for lack of pictures but the trip was 85% Night time. So from leaving on Friday at 6am to returning on Sunday at 11am that's our trip 2600 miles. almost 40 hours of driving just for a 3 hour car show. most of you might think its crazy, but its what i enjoy diving, adventures, and car shows. No car issues other then the turn signal, and no tickets. I would like to thank my brother Eric for making the trip with me, without you it would not have been possible. there is no way i could have driven that whole time by myself ...till the next one. STAY FUNCTIONAL .

YEAR.THREE

                              When this event was announced officially, i was more then excited to come to southern California for it, the chronicles always has such amazing cars on his blog i figured that he wouldn't disappoint. The event took place at the Eibach factory. It was substantially smaller then the annual Eibach meet, which turned out to be a good thing. if anyone has ever been to the Eibach meet you know how crazy and out of control it gets, parking miles away, police everywhere, stupid people being stupid, and the occasional disaster like the impounding of 1320's integra. Year.Three brought NONE of this, i was amazed when i pulled up that there was ample parking, and no police. when i first walked in i was immediately blindsided by such amazing cars, my neck was breaking looking all over the place, i didn't even know where to start taking pictures. a lot of very functional car were at this event, I'm loving it how there are less and less whack cambered civics every time i go to an event. I'm glad that phase is dying, it is all about the function now.after walking the front area for about an hour and a half we finally made it to the sides. this is where i was in for major let down. there was chivics and chintegras all over, i couldn't even take pictures they would have broken the camera. this is the main reason i like how this event was not publicly advertised, so it keeps most of the crap out, but as always someone will find out. I was still VERY impressed to see the amount of amazing cars that made it to the event. two thumbs up for this event, i cant wait for year 4.

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WEKFEST Fort Worth

                                  As always the Wekfest shows are sick. i was especially excited  For the Texas stop The Midwest guys are really killing lately. For this stop i drove my functional car round trip total of 2600 miles from Vegas to Fort worth and back to see it. i will be doing a separate write up about our adventures in driving down there later this week.  I was happy to see a lot more functional cars in the mix this time. track set up EG's, a 740 HP track integra, an IS300 boasting 800+ HP on race gas, but from the outside looked mostly stock, SR20 swapped corolla, TYPE R's everywhere,and some beat up looking 240s that you could tell they were using and abusing. if one of your cars is pictured please contact us, we would love to send you out a sticker. please comment, the we love the feedback.

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SR20 swapped Corolla, with some cool interior mods. you'll have to look at flickr to see all the pics of it

 

AMAZING track monster, with trophy's to prove it.

There were a few type r's there but this one was BOA. spoon everything, inside and out take a look at flickr for more pictures of it.

im partial to white,  so naturally i love this one. just one of the many civic track builds there.

no words... just look at all the pics of it on flickr

TEXAS PREPIN'

                                     In 6 hours we will be heading out on our 1300 mile journey to WEKFEST in fort worth. i have spent that last 3 days prepping the car making sure everything was tight, and changed the fluids. i took a few pictures of the car while i was doing it. I know what your thinking, why am i going to drive the rough, loud, low, no a/c, uncomfortably cramped car all the way to Texas. WELL im doing it to prove a point you can build a functional car and still daily drive it. i will be driving, low, straight piped, no silencer, roll cage and seat harness. all the way there. we don't build our cars to be comfortable daily's, we build them to be race cars that we drive daily. its possible and everyone needs to start manning up and driving their built cars.come on guys take it to the streets. so with these words i leave you.we will documenting every step of the road trip there and will have a separate article on that, later next week. stay tuned for the goodness. hope to see some of you in Texas.

we will have full WEKFEST event coverage up by Monday, be on the lookout  for the link.

 

 This is where the car sleep, in a secret tiny ass one car garage.

 

My guard dog keeps it safe. it is next to impossible to work on the car in this garage. its hard to tell from the picture since im using a wide angle lens but its ridiculously tight.

  Decided to clean up the engine bay a little too as long as i had the hood popped, i figured why not. this was also about the time i found out my battery was dead. being the night before i left the only place i could get one was from ever. he let me borrow the braille battery from his 240. which if almost half the size of my stock battery. also flushed radiator, changed oil, trans fluid, checked brake and clutch fluid and bled. i know most of this was over kill but since i will be driving it half way across the US totaling more then 2600 miles i figured i might as well cover all my bases.

Normally i run no spare, but again i would rather be safe then sorry. so Pat came through with a full size spare. its a tight squeeze between all the bars but at least its not going to move.

 

Just checking all the steering and brake hardware and bolts, making sure all the sway-bars are tight. its all pretty much redundant since i take such good care of it anyway. but just being safe. i always drive the car between LA and las vegas, but that only 300 miles and i know the roads well and could get help from a friend in snap. how ever once i reach new mexico im pretty much on my own.

some other adjustments we made like reinstalling the cigarette lighter so we can charge our phones, and installing working rear speakers so we have loud music.

BEHIND THE SMOKE ep26

Another Larry Chen masterpiece

well Larry does it again, making a really cool video. its cool to see something different from the usually videos.

HGK new drift car for 2012

what a beast ass machine. 500hp 515 tq, perfect 50/50 weight ratio, horizontal mounted rear suspension... this thing has the same buzz words as a freaking F1 car.

Circuit Monsters CRX Racing at AAA Speedway

HELL YEA. B series FTW.

FD irwindale 2011 part deux

                   A day that is going to go down in FD history. Crashes, upsets, and a new FD king was crowned, today was filled with amazing driving put on by all top 32 drivers, and went off pretty much with out a hitch at all. even with there new live halftime show, which involved live interviews with FD drivers, insider feedback, and fan questions answered via driftstream chat.
 The road to the title was a rough one for Dai, he ended up missing a whole clipping point and going off track, giving the win to THE GUSH. which pretty much set up JTP to take the 2011 FD Title, where he intern seemed to make a freak mistake too crashing into the wall right below the judges tent. this then set up D MAC to potentially take the title out from under both of them. Tyler mcquarrie knocked out D MAC, making it official Dai was crowned the 2011 FD CHAMP, and took home the discount tire triple crown as well. In the battle for 3rd D MAC and Chris Forsberg both crashed on their final run, but since D MAC made contact with Chris on the first run, Chris ended up taking 3rd place, Leaving Rhys and Tyler to battle it out for first.

official results:
PRO
1st-Tyler Mcquarrie
2nd-Rhys Millen
3rd-Chris Forsberg

PRO/AM
1st-Brian Peter
2nd-Julian Jacobs
3rd-Patrick Goodin

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FD Irwindale 2011 Title Fight

                Today felt like it was the slowest day of any FD that i have ever been to, technical difficulties setting up the 3D TV for the versus channel made for a very agonizing first few runs, then Kyle pollard decided to run his car into the white and orange street barriers lining the inside of the course, causing a need for a clean up. his car was not badly damaged. the the crash of the day goes to Jim Guthrie crashing hard head on into the end of the big banked turn, this causing a HUGE delay he had to get pulled from he car and taken away in an ambulance. his car managed to leak all of its fluids from top to bottom of the banked turn. factor in a few glitches from the speakers not working, to just plain announcing scores for the wrong drivers. all of these issues put the event so behind schedule that they had to cancel the autograph session. But besides all of those issues it still turned out to be a great day. i love the new track layout it makes for some hella good tire smoking. as always Formula D puts on a great event. and i cant wait to see the tandems on Saturday. hope to see you all there.

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and as always here are a few pictures to tantalize you taste buds