Navin’s S2K Powered AE86
A few months ago, we decided to hold a contest on our Facebook page to see what our readers were driving. Sometimes when you’re busy building and maintaining websites and businesses, it’s very easy to lose site of who your readers are and what they are into. So we ran a simple contest: post a pic of your car, and we’ll choose a car to use as our default avatar. Well, after a couple dozen submissions in just a few days, we stumbled on Navin’s Hatchi.
Ganesh’s R32 GTR V-Spec 2 : Built in Modesty
Not sure when it happened but sometime over the past couple of years, it seems people have forgotten how to tune street cars with simple and modest virtues. It seems we’re back on our way to seeing gaudy, ill-fitting knock off carbon and aero appointments trying to resemble J style.
Edwin’s F22 Powered Starlet
Photography by Jeff Cabacungan
While up at Formula Drift Sonoma, we had some extra time so we stopped by Full Function and met up with Junior and rest of the J’s Gathering crew. While there we ran into Edwin and his immaculate Starlet. We’ve seen the car before while it was winning awards at TORC but never had a chance to shoot it.
Charleston’s EVO IX
Photography by Jordan Shiraki
A friend of mine and I had an interesting conversation a few days ago. You don’t see too many heavily tuned cars roaming the streets anymore. Whether it be the crackdown from the local fuzz (cops), stricter emissions laws, or the down turn in available funds, not to many people are pushing the limits of tuning on the roads anymore.
Bryan’s Turbo NSX
Photography by Jordan Shiraki
In the last era of automotive excess, the Acura NSX was the last of the 90’s supercars to get the axe. During the 90’s, every major automotive manufacturer was in a race to outdo each other with the integration of aerospace design, turbochargers, and advanced suspension systems into high performance vehicles not [...]
Crawford x Skunkworks Time Attack STi
Photography by Anthony Mair
When the info leaked a few years ago that Crawford was building a new Sti for Time Attack to replace the Silver sedan they were running at the time, there was quite a bit of interest in how the the new hatch design of the Subie would fare with the competition. With [...]
FXMD’s Time Attack NSX
Photography by Anthony Mair
News Update: Billy Johnson wins Super Lap RWD Unlimited Championship
As we were just about drop this Static, Billy Johnson in the FX Motorports NSX just grabbed the Super Lap Battle RWD Unlimited category championship. Billy was barely edged out for the overall win by the Sierra Sierra EVO. So what does it [...]
Lexus GS350 by TRD
It’s no secret that large companies move a little slower than its smaller counterparts just as a heavyweight boxer fighting a lightweight would. The problem is, when they hit, they hit like a freight train. Seeing the performance category mature over the past few years, its no surprise Lexus was slowly watching the enthusiasts that [...]
David Huang’s Turbo IS300
Back when David first picked up this car in 2001, it was a pristine, brand new Silver IS300. David was new to the scene back in those days, but he never stopped learning his craft which he now uses professionally with his company ShowOpt.com. If you haven’t heard of ShowOpt, they are a premiere [...]
0-60 Mag’s IS-250c
Gordan Ting of 0-60 Magazine and Gary Castillo of Designcraft teamed up to create this IS250-C. The car follows a timeless formula of a pearl white exterior contrasting against a black leather/white deviated stitch interior. The overall look is very reminiscent of European tuning methods and factory offerings from the likes of Porsche. Inside the [...]
JTUNED x VIP AutoSalon IS-350c
3 Weeks? All One Off Parts? No Problem.
How many times in our lives have we been given an impossible project with an even more impossible deadline? Less than two months ago, we headed over to our friend Clark Ishihara’s shop, VIP Auto Salon in Torrance. When we walked in through the back bay, to the [...]
Oshima’s 2000GT-EX
Photography by Jordan Shiraki
For gear-heads living in Southern California, the new 2009 Nissan GT-R has lost some of its significance. Initially the R35 GTR was often associated with the words “waitlist”, “deposit”, and “markup”; but only nine months after its July 7th release it seems that many of the R35’s 2,500 first year copies made [...]
IS350c F-Sport by TRD
It’s no secret that large companies move a little slower than its smaller counterparts just as a heavyweight boxer fighting a lightweight would. The problem is, when they hit, they hit like a freight train. Seeing the performance category mature over the past few years, its no surprise Lexus was slowly watching the enthusiasts that [...]
David Huang’s VIP M35
Speed-Build
Although 2008 is the first year of many more to come in the collaboration between ShowOpt and Nissan North America, but the story behind this vehicle can be dated as far back as the SEMA show in 2007, when Huang was recruited by the James Bond of Nissan North America- Thomas Henry, a senior executive [...]
