stupid car

sitting at home.

also, yay or nay?

most say nay. trd wing would be better of course, but this ones free. gotta spend money on what counts..

also that is my dad, the MAN himself in the picture.

New Toy

Out with the old, in with the new!

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2)

3)

Extrrreeeaammlyy happy!

One Thing Leading to Another

Nobody really started an introduction yet, so I'll go ahead and start off.

The Basics:

- Full time student (and almost graduating).

- Miata.

- Drifting/racing/autocrossing.... it's all fun to me. Except I'm pretty sure I enjoy drifting the most.

- Truth: I suck with cars. I even have trouble working on my own car, and everything that's been done since I starting driving wouldn't have been possible without all the help of friends, or paid for.

Hate me if you want.

My Story:

This car was handed down to me from my dad (thanks Dad!). It was bought brand new in 96, and it's been with the family till this day.

Then, it was officially mine after I got my license sometime in 05.

(If you don't know what it means to be truly attached to a car, I think this picture sums it up, plain and simple.)

(I used to have a tan soft-top until some thief tore it apart and broke into the car. Apologies for the lack of visibility. I guess I didn't take that many photos of the car back in the day.)

I knew absolutely nothing about cars (still don't). I just wanted to be cool like most high schoolers who were proud of being able to drive on their own (and maybe show off a little). Then, one thing leading to another, suddenly I was having conversations like "mountain driving" (or "touge"), and all this other jargon about "taking corners," "heel-toe," "late-braking," so on and so forth.

Did a lot of that shit without a clue in my mind of what I was getting myself into.

I'm EXTREMELY lucky that most of my crashes were never to the point of totaling the car. Except, one crash did significantly mess up my alignment and its adjustability. Till now, I still haven't been able to fix it.

Anyway, I'll go ahead and fast forward by letting the pictures tell most of the story.

Old Look:

Old Auto-x days:

Early Days of Drifting:

(Yeah not really here lol!)

A Newer Look:

More current drifting, with a few minor changes:

Wheels get stolen......

Yeah I'm keep this part of the story private.

The Current Look (which you've might seen in a previous post):

That pretty much wraps up my years/experiences thus far. I know I didn't go into any detail of what's been done to the car, but I'm pretty sure most people can tell from the pictures that there hasn't been much.

Oh yeah! Along the way I met John and Adrian. We party from time to time, one thing led to another (HAHA NO HOMO), and randomly decided to start a blog together on the new years eve of 2010, all while drinking some of that Jamesonnn.

Thanks for reading!

Damn Coupes

So coming home from work I met this guy name Jake going the opposite direction. We said wasup and pulled over at my house. The neat thing I found out, he graduated from the same High School as me, Class of 2004. He also knew the same people I did. I really have to say his car is pretty damn gangster.





After seeing Jake's car I already want to get started on my Gf's coupe.

I'm convinced. I want to go aero all around...might change, but what ever.

As she sits:





Peace

Hella Beat

So this past weekend I headed down to Thunderhill Raceway with a few of my friends for the TD Open Drift Skid-pad. I couldn’t do it without the help from Vex Motorsport (Herb Danny, Brian), Cousin Mikey, David Chen (Troll), Joseph and Adrian.

I had a lot of prepping to do to get the car to be more functional for the track.

For the third time re-tucked my wiring harness and I’m pretty sure this time it won’t rub.




I finished repairing my 20mm over-fenders and painted them. It feels so much better knowing that I have more clearance.




Then went to Vex Motorsport where Herb did my alignment and some custom tie-rods for me.



Specs:

Front-
Camber: -2.7
Toe: 0
Caster: 7.4

Rear-
Camber: -2.3
Toe: 0

I also decided to raise the front ¾ inches for more clearance.


Then the day before the track day my cousin Mikey helped me rebuilt my axles and swap in the welded.


Enough talking… here are some pictures my friend took from the event.

Drift Pictures

I had hella fun and I cant wait for July 18th. I'm planning to run more camber and have more then 1 hour of sleep this time..lol. The drive back was killer.