Oh lawd

I stopped by the shop for the first time in a while. I was pumped to see rob brought a vending machine to the garage. No doubt it will be filled with beer or ghetto soda pop.

Adam also got the hatch tuned with his new setup. He’s making well over 600hp with the injectors maxed out. It will be awesome to see what he’s making with bigger squirts! He’s a fucking mad man.

I’m also throwing a pic in of steves fourdoor. Just because it looks so clean.

Tomorrow morning (this morning technically) I’m going to do a photo shoot of an insane ek coupe. 700+hp on a stock kseries long block. Wish me luck.

Hey everyone that reads this(all two of you),
I apologize for not coming through with the video action. Life and work have gotten sort of crazy. As soon as I get that video edited I will let the world know.

Holla.

The challenge has been issued.

Adam and Jason took their cars to the track the other day.. They both had their cars in the elevens. Adams car isn’t even tuned yet.. It was a fun night I took some good video but until I get a laptop I won’t have it posted. Expect to see some gnarly burn out videos by next weekend or sooner!

some of this dubstep stuff is pretty good.

Sometimes when I’m bored I’ll look up old car commercials on YouTube. Car commercials today just don’t have what it takes to sell cars when compared with these hot gems.

1991 Miata
“a ragtop, a two-seater, a true roadster…”

“RIIIIIIDE, PONTIAC RIIIIIIIDE!”

“TAKE A CURVE, GRAB A GEAR, RUN IT STRONG, FREEDOM’S HERE!!!”

this thing is bouncing like it’s slammed!

my god.

drooling.

absolutely love this one.

There are a bunch of re-occurring themes I see in forum posts. I see one trend every so often – mostly in for sale threads. People will post there wears and have a “Gettin’ out of the game sale”. It has always been a pet peeve of mine that people refer to this hobby as a “Game”. A game is something that comes in a box from toys r us. A game something you play on a computer or console. Building cars and driving cars isn’t a game. You can’t save or restart. There are no cheat codes.

This is real life. Building cars (the right way) is seldom cheap. And driving like an idiot has real-life consequences. I guess if you drive a piece of shit it is hard to take it seriously. Truthfully I am not a serious person. At all. But this is something I feel like you should have a certain amount of pride in your car. Your hard work. Your money. So, if you want to call it a ‘game’, I understand. It must be hard to have any pride in a pink crx with e-bay parts. These are the same people who think the scene is dying out.

That’s a whole new batch of fail right there. The scene isn’t dying. With all the continued innovation and development going on AMIDST A RECESSION- how are you going tell me the scene is dying? If anything the weak are dying out. The movers, shakers, innovators, and people who live for the hobby are still doing work. Still changing it up. Some are going harder than ever. If the nay sayers would venture out beyond their city limits and went to some events – they would have more of a clue. Import Alliance was huge and they are adding events. Oh- but you didn’t go to that event because you spent all your money on affliction t-shirts and ebay parts… My bad.

/rant

It is getting closer to winter. The artic hell. Strangely, my friend Branden, hates summer.. He is a snow boarder after all but since I’m from North East Ohio- I do not curse summer. I’d be afraid summer would never come back. The thing is- My integra is a Texas car (so loverly) and I don’t want to taint her with the DREADED ROAD SALT OF DEATH AND DOOM TO ALL THINGS METAL..

So, I’m kinda convinced I want to get an Accord Wagon. Later nineties.. Hopefully from southern ohio so Its clean.. Then later on air bag it and keep it as a daily.

However, I am itching to put a K-series in my integra and that is going to be alot of cashola. Hmm.
We’ll see. With this economy- who knows- I might put off k swaps and accords completely..

So it goes.

-ShockerJoe.