Vegasdrift short

Nicolas CAGE TIME

                      I don't really get on here as often as i should, even though im always fixing, fabing, modifying, changing, improving, destroying, or doing something car related. but to be honest usually every project that i do i always think about taking pictures after i have already finished, then i pretty much just say forget it and figure ill post one picture on instagram. however this situation is different in a few ways, 1 Ever just got a new camera so i figured i could get him to snap a few pictures since his pictures are always awesome, and second doing a cage is a pretty big thing so i figured i have a blog why not use it.

So in our local drift sanctioning body (VEGAS DRIFT) and most every other sanctioning body, you need to have a cage with door bars to tandem or compete in pro am events. I had one lonely friend who was a black sheep amongst us, he was the only one that couldn't tandem with us at the last event which was a bummer, cause we had some pretty large trains going on. so he figured he would ask me if i could build him a cage whats the worst i could say "no". So he asked and we struck up a great deal for the both of us. Let the build begin.

The criteria for the build was going to a very basic cage that would allow him to pass tech, and allow him tandem with us. My parameters were that it would only have 1 passenger door bar, just a basic 2 bar driver door bar, no X's anywhere, only dimple dies on the A pillars, no extra gussets, basically not a Fanboi stupid overly done cage with dimple dies ALL OVER. He didn't want any of that anyway, he just wanted a cage just so he could pass tech, and tandem with us. This is also one of the reasons i did the cage, because i knew he would be happy with anything i did no matter how basic. In all actuality i like having a very simple cage anyway. Keeps the weight down, keeps the cost down, and its better to let your driving do the talking not how stupid crazy over done your cage is. The worst is to show up to an event with a crazy built car and not even be able to drift, or drift the whole track, or be consistent.

So what he ended up with was an amazingly tight fitting simple yet clean looking cage that is going to allow him to have fun at any event he does. Im very happy with how it came out and im sure he is happy too.

Grip 240? yes please

lets not forget that our cars can do more then drift. they can all grip like crazy! pretty sweet sounding sr too.

Bloodfest: On-Board Cut!

Military 6666 customs silvia

its crazy how he painted the whole engine bay black.

INSANITY

                      this is awesome.

Clubloose's 2012 season rewind

Clubloose's 2012 Season Rewind from Kevin Johnsrud on Vimeo.

UPDATES...

                                   Man oh man it has been a while, but please rest assured its for good reason. we have been busy prepping our cars for the upcoming Vegas Drift event on OCT 6th. so that includes getting parts, wheels, tires, fixing broken stuff on the cars currently, and just basically making sure the cars are all prepped for the event. it all started by figuring out what was wrong with evers car, after a long hiatus we were finally able to get it running strong. pretty much since he has had the car the rack has almost always had a small leak, well not any more. we replaced the rack and added parts shop max steering rack eccentric bushings, and tein tie rods.

Now lets take it back a few weeks. i made a trip to California to get wheels tires and some other goodies you'll see later and some stuff from MAX

 the black ones on the right went on my civic.

The whole thing started with me going 5 lug. ever found some rear hubs on Zilvia for a great deal so i go them... then i thought man i need new wheels now. so i decided to just go crazy.

here is the front 5 lug full Q45 conversion.i know its not baller like the Z32 but it works fine for me.

 i also got an AEM water temp guage, those are the pictures of the HYDRO EBRAKE installed and the max rear toe arms.

That is not a Keys wheels its just an Ebay wheel with evers keys wheels horn button. After installing the ebrake it took me a long time to get the brakes properly bled, even after bench bleeding the new ebrake master cylinder. but i finally got it working right. 

Here is the car down on the ground. wheels specs are 17x9.5 all around +12 in the rear and -7 in the front. 225 45 tires as you can see in the pictures i gaped my front fenders to fit the wheels easier.

thats pretty much a quick sum up of the last few weeks. please enjoy the rest of the pictures and we will see you all out at the VEGAS DRIFT event on OCTOBER 6th 

2012 Kansai All Stars Super Team Drift!!

Fucking awesome... this is how drifting events should be here in america. fuck rules, fuck lawsuits, fuck scaredy cats that don't want to wreck there car. 

ETS UTE update

im sure most of you guys know about this build that ETS is doing. but i just stumbled across some updates.

Click the link HERE for the full update on ETS

Sick 510 foo

The Year 1971. from Mark Razmandi on Vimeo.


I love the way the owner made the 510, its very raw looking nothing to flashy. N/A ITB'd Sr20 looking sexy under the hood. I would love to do something like this.

East Coast FUCKING Bash

East Coast Fucking Bash from Beard Life on Vimeo.

VegasDrift Smoke sessions

                                last nights Vegas Drift practice event was a crazy one for our driver Joey Sproul, who broke his tranny on his first run out which cut his night really short. Then my good friend August with the S2000 had his drain plug fall out and he lost all his oil. Other then those major events the night went smoothly for everyone else. These events are a great way to get out and practice, the whole Vegas Drift staff is awesome and super nice. No one is there to judge you or bag on you cause your not that good. everyone is just there to have fun, so i would really suggest trying to make these events. This last event only had about 12 cars there. So if you have thoughts about going to these events but aren't sure, you really should its great fun. The only bad thing about it was how HOT it was, since it was so hot i didn't really feel like taking pictures so i only shot a few, and then took some videos with the GOPRO. The videos are of Penguin, he is running an S14 with a totally stock SR20 with A/C, stock boost, stock manifold, stock everything. Not to mention he is trying to spin 18x10 wheels, and with all that he still manages to pull it off.