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Here are some pics from the Tokyo Motor Show. Nissan sacrificed one and cut one in half – diagonally. Check out the twin intercoolers and rear transaxle. Remember my post…

My friend Masato was living in the USA for a six month tour of duty working for General Electric of Japan. We were at a friend’s house pounding shochu (Japanese…

NISSAN ANNOUNCES NEW NISSAN GT-R – New Dimensional Multi-Performance Supercar Available in Early December – TOKYO (Oct. 24, 2007) – Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., today announced the launch of the…

Intercooler tubing is something that a lot of people seem to take for granted. They figure that if it connects from the turbo compressor housing to intercooler, then to the…

Once in a while you have to go and eat somewhere where the food really kicks ass. One spot for super grubbin food is a Peruvian restaurant called El Pollo…

Official, undisguised shots of the 2009 Nissan GT-R. I love the interior, engine, and the rear, but I’m not too sure about the front bumper. To each his own…. 2009…

The Griffith Observatory reopened it’s doors to the public earlier this year. They have some new displays and the old ones too. Interesting stuff, but some of it’s really basic…

A couple months ago I went to a Tiesto concert at the Los Angeles Sports Arena. Electronic music is alive and well with glow sticks and bottled water. The show…

I remember when I was 19 back in 1992 and moved out of parents’ house to attend Cal State Long Beach, I found myself being strapped for cash living in…

This past Sunday I went to the LA Convention Center to check out NEXTFEST. It’s a show that showcases future and upcoming technologies in all fields: consumer, military, entertainment, health,…

If you like classic Japanese cars and especially rotaries, you have to check out Nostalgic Hero #123 with a DVD. It covers all the old rotary cars like the Cosmo…

Last week I was over at M-Workz doing some intake manifold testing Steve’s 350Z and I caught Mike Kojima’s Sentra all stickered up and in the middle of an alignment.…

You would normally not catch me saying the word Sentra and badass in the same sentence, but my buddy Mike Kojima (crap, there’s Wikipedia page on him!) the Sentra master…

Somebody asked me how a LSD (limited slip differential) works and although I understand the principle of what a differential does, I didn’t know how all the specific types of…

Man have I been busy. I’ve been working on the XS GT-R Time Attack car’s dry sump oil system. It’s time to bring the car out again and destroy some…

While I was up in San Francisco a couple weeks ago, I stopped by the Red Vic Movie House on Haight Street to watch an independent Japanese movie with Phil…

My buddy Aric sent me a link to one of his albums. It turns out he drove that same blue Veyron I saw up in PV. Aric also works for…

The word “tuner” has really gotten to me. It’s so over used and played out and it’s not even a mainstream word. The word “tuner” is like Timbaland producing pop…

I have to admit, for the past 13-14 years I’ve had the luxury of using a shop to work on my cars. I still have access to a shop, but…

is fucking awesome. You should buy one. Wii sports is ultra fun so I haven’t moved on to any other games yet. It was an early Christmas present from some…

I was talking to my old room mate Jeff the Tokyo pimp this morning and he happened to be visiting San Francisco. He read my blog about the blue Veyron.…

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Last Sunday was Pro Motion Distributing’s Spo-Com show at the Long Beach Convention center. I’m not a show guy, but the show was supposed to double as a trade show.…

I was cruising through Palos Verdes (straight ballin’ area) on my way to the Spo-com show this past Sunday and I passed a blue Bugatti Veyron. The guy didn’t know…

So it sounded like a lot of you may have misunderstood my post on the Industry Mail thing. My bad, I wasn’t too clear. Read the last last couple of…

I have a friend who is a nail tech and she does my nails. Since I’ve taken up my desk job at Cosworth, I don’t get my hands all fucked…

This past weekend I did a photo shoot for Carboy magazine. Carboy is a Japanese car tuning magazine for those of you who don’t know. They are doing a series…

So the Bergenholtz brothers arranged for the engine to get built and ported. If the engine is built well, then it should be able to generate more horsepower and be…

  So my buddy Mike Ferrara from D-Sport Magazine bought a boat. Yes, the magazine with the Westminister Vietnamese coffee house chicks on the cover every month. Wow, the magazine…

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What a waste of a perfectly good connecting rod. I had to cut it for the sake of quality control and research and development though. I’m sending it out to…

I decided to transfer some vinyl records I had to mp3 so I could put some of the tracks on my Ipod. This is actually quite a task because there’s…