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It all started in 1986 when I was about 12 or 13 years old and my buddy Stanley’s dad bought him a pair of Cerwin Vega home speakers with 15″…

Last month, Gertjan sent me an email with a link to the Driftworks site that shows the build of their EDC (European Drift Championship) S15. The car was built in…

In response to my previous post, Albert from Poland sent me an email with some You Tube videos of some real deal street racing in Poland. He sent a link…

Since my last post almost 3 days ago, the Castrol Top Shop votes for Sport Compact Car only went up by 600 votes. You guys are fucking weak! Ok fine,…

Castrol Syntec and Source Interlink (publishers of Sport Compact Car, Import Tuner, Turbo, Modified, and Super Street magazines) are hosting a competition called “Top Shop” where engines will be run…

Last Thursday I had the opportunity to test drive the newly supercharged Miata by Cosworth. The system was designed by scratch and should be released toward the end of summer…

Lucky bastard Carter Jung (chief editor at Import Tuner Magazine) got to cruise an R35 around last week. So what was the first thing he did with it? He took…

Somebody forwarded this email to me today where this new company, Titek, was promoting their magnetic drain plugs for an engine’s oil pan. While the concept is somewhat novel, it’s…

I’m back from the land of plenty finally (1.32 billion population) and suffering from severe jet lag. It is now 4:26am and it is my third day of not being…

I’ve been in Shanghai since last week enjoying the city. My buddy Daniel opened a factory several years ago over here that does all sorts of metal working. His factory…

I have discovered the UTK. While killing time and checking out Jeff’s blog, he mentioned chickipedia. As Jeff said, why didn’t somebody think of this sooner? Ultimate MILF – Monica…

Stephen Quinn who used to help out here and there at XS several years ago sent me an email telling me about a photo shoot he saw going on at…

Told you so: Jesse sent me a link to a local forum in Orlando where a Neon clutch decided to blow itself up at 8000rpm. Oh sorry, I meant SRT-4.…

Cruising the web, I googled ‘Cosworth’. On the first page, ‘Mahle Powertrain’ popped up. I clicked it and looked under history and there is a fairly detailed time line on…

This may be old news to some of ya’ll, but a buddy of mine’s just sent me the link to this today. I’m not up to date in kiddyland (evo…

I have always been a firm believer in multi-plate clutches, but of course it will always depend on the application. I noticed there seems to be a general lack of…

My buddy Yasu wrote a feature in this month’s Carboy Magazine on Edwin Konishi – otherwise known as EDMATIC. Back in 1997 (if I remember correctly) Jerry from Pacific Rim…

Last night I went to the Boiling Crab in Wetminta again with the Ark Design posse to get down and dirty with Viet/Louisiana style shrimp, lobster, crawfish, crab legs, chicken…

Jeremy from track support moved into our office about a month ago even though he’s never actually in the office. He’s always out and about at various tracks all over…

Steve gave me a call and told me he just unloaded the Mine’s R35 GT-R from it’s container. On my way to Formula D last Saturday, I stopped by M-Workz…

My buddy Gary from Design Craft has done it again and built another crazy car. This time it’s a RWD Scion TC with a 3SGTE VVT engine. With the HKS…

Once again, Damessenjah writes about some funny shit. DaTruth is Damessenjah’s blog about everything that is undeniably true with the automotive tuning industry. He blasts ugly import models, wack ass…

Somebody sent me a link to Autoblog earlier today and they had some shots up about the V-Spec. Damn, it makes the standard R35 look like shit already. Check out…

Saturday was a long day. It started with the alarm clock blasting at 5:20am. I had to go to the Performance Nissan meet to work the Cosworth booth at the…

C-West USA, Design Craft (Gary Castillo who has had my S13 to build a cage for two fucking years and hasn’t touched it yet), BC, and Greddy teamed up to…

Since the BNR32/33/34 Skyline GT-Rs were only really available in Japan and a couple other parts of the world, previously you only really had the JDM engine parts to choose…

A couple weeks ago I met up with the XS and ARK Design posse to grab some food down in Wetminta. Oh sorry, for those of you who don’t understand…

I imagine that would be the response of anybody who bought the Nissan Z33 race car. After getting reamed in the ass for US$284,000, you will definitely know how much…

For those of you that have followed WRC rally, Le Mans, touring car, or are just a Subaru geek, then you will know the name Prodrive. I am not talking…

Being a fan of the BNR32 Skyline GT-R, I always like to check out old pictures of the cars in their heyday. Whether in motorsport trim, street tuned trim, or…

Yesterday morning I continued the tuning on Sean’s Supra, but I ran out of time and couldn’t finish. Previous to Sean’s car and back in 2000, the most power I…

The inside of a proper race car is always cool. There are tubes everywhere, carbon fiber everything, sequential or paddle shifters, Alcantara suede dash and coverings, super low seats mounted…