Drift douche bags

I stopped by to see Dominic today and return some stuff I borrowed for a shoot. While there we were talking about, amongst other things, our blogs. I just checked his blog a minute ago and he has a rant about “Honda Guys” But I think this level of douche bag transcends makes and models. Since he gave me the green light, I am going to put this one on blast.

What is it with idiots into drifting thinking that stretched tires are so fucking cool. You know what stretched tires mean, that you don’t have any power to turn a tire that fits your rim. Or that you are an idiot that has no clue when it comes to picking the proper offset/ width rim for your car. You can choose either one.

You douche bags think you are so original, the low rider guys have been doing that for years. Go join them in their cruise. Because you obviously don’t have enough power to hang with anyone at the track. Here is a perfect example from a blog close to both of us.

You can see that if this car had proper camber, this wheel would never fit. On top of that, you can tell that they stretched the shit out of the tire to make it clear his fender. Put a proper tire to fit this rim and you will see exactly my correlation to a low-rider. Actually just the way it sits is very low-rider esque.

I have always had a special place in my heart for the S15. But this is like a hot girl with some really whack teeth. You would bang her, but the gangly teeth are just really annoying.

Blast Racing

Naoto and I was working on our Project KA24DE motor when we ran into a bit of a problem. We ended up needing to machine a part for the motor. There was the option to go back to my house to use the lathe there, but I didn’t have any bar stock small enough for what we needed. He decided to call Wakita-san at Blast to see if we could some of his material and his lathe. Since Naoto used to work for him, he gave us the green light.

Wakita-san always has cool projects going on at his shop. Since we came so late, we were in a bit of a rush to finish as they were trying not to stay late on a Saturday night. We eventually got the piece machined and had a nice chat with him about how things are going in our industry. Thank you Wakita-san and Kenny. Check out whats going on in their world at their blog: Blast Racing.

Training 2

Last week I rode the Amtrak Surfliner back from Oceanside to Irvine. Compared to the Metrolink, Amtrak is super shitty. To check tickets, the conductor hole punches your ticket. This creates pieces of confetti all over the floor and makes it look like someone had a party before you got on the train. The seats are also quite dirty and look pretty worn out. Which is a wonder to me as the train look really packed. If they are rolling at capacity, they should have the revenue to properly maintain the cars. All in all its about 3 out of 5.

What really made the ride unbearable were the idiots that sat directly if front of me.(the four people in the lower right corner.) Hey douche bag, riding the train is not an excuse to get drunk and act like you are at home or in your car. The idiots, the girl included, would laugh and yell at the top of their lungs. Look at the picture closer and you can see people trying to sleep all around them.  No wonder people in Europe hate Americans so much.

Week ends

Usually my weekends are filled with sleeping and eating… thats about it. But this weekend in particular was pretty fun filled. Friday after work, I headed out to Triumvir for Brandon’s bday party.  Again another interesting night with no alcohol.  Its been a couple weeks now and I honestly feel great with no drinking in my life.  Plus losing 15lbs helps my motivation as well.

I started my day on Saturday at this shop cleaning up and then met up with Jimmy and the boys. We made a trek into the wild 909 to watch Bao fight. It was a rematch against some dude he beat 2 years ago.

They both came out slugging and the guy caught Bao with a right cross on the button. We thought he was done for, but he clinched to the take down. Showing that he still had Jiu Jitsu game, he swept the guy into a kimura for the win. Good shit Bao!

On Sunday, I woke up late and just took it easy. Jimmy calls me up to ask me to go ride bikes at the beach. I honestly live like 5min from the ocean, but I can’t really remember the last time I was there. I was down for sure. We made our way from Goldenwest and PCH to Beach and PCH. It dawned upon me how I take for granted living in Orange County. Snow in the winter, beach in the summer, pretty girls everywhere. This place is awesome.

Its so JDM yo

Even though I recently moved into Kevin’s shop, I have still be making the trek down to my buddy Gabe’s shop in Oceanside, JDM Concepts. I have know this dude for 10 years. He used to be a customer at Dynamic Autosports when I used to work there(yes, I am proud to say that no matter what people think of North Koreans) and now a good friend. I have been giving him a hand on a couple cars he has down there. I like taking the trip down there because it gives me a chance to hang out with him and the infamous Filipino tickler, Aries Dizon. Yes the same five foot Filipino lover of Frelude infamy.

I was surprised to learn that there is a severe lack of tuning shops left in San Diego. But I guess those are the times we are living in: High gas prices, high car prices, high parts prices, cheap ass customers.
Hopefully I can get this FD3S out of his hair.

Man… these dudes are cool.

Needles

My buddy Thang kept bugging me about taking him to check out where Jasin works at. After a year, the guy was itching to get tattooed again. After a couple of weeks of bullshitting, I finally took him over to The Tattoo Gallery and got him an appointment. Being that Jasin has been booked out 3 weeks in advance, he actually made time to do Thang’s leg.

After talking it over, they decided on a koi. It starts from his knee and ends at his ankle on the outside of the leg. They only got through the line part of it but I am sure that guy will be back in soon to get the shading done.  Come to think of it, I need to get myself in there to finish up mine.