SPEED HERO Blog — Discoquinn

I realized I hadn't done a follow up to "The Beginnings", so here's a small catch up to current. I'm not living in a trailer on the side of a mountain about 15 minutes North of Victoria, British Columbia, and there has been a fair number of cars since getting here! But we'll pick up where we left off in the beginnings post. Treat this as part 2, if you haven't read #1, click the link above first. The next car was an 1985 FB RX7 GSL. There's a big story and write up with it: HERE.

People often ask my advice on how to improve their cars for certain types of motorsport, and with my expertise in doing things for cheap/free my opinion seems to matter to them as I've gone damn fast. My speed to cost ratio is damn good, and from this I've devised my own approaches to motorsport to remain competitive. This the first in a series of performance related discussions and if your wondering, this is step 1. Begin here, as this is your base, we will continue with basics and work towards more complex concepts and ideals.

DQ and I had the opportunity to head up island for an impromptu drift day organized by Speed Hero regular Dugwillis. Unfortunately Dug and drift assassin Grant "Gpenny" Kozier were called in to work and that left a small group of us to our own devices. We had to stop and pick up one of our two car posse on the way to the track. The FC is being kept alive by nothing...

It turns out that moving pictar technology has improved since the days of the zoetrope. That being said, head on over the Speed Hero's Youtube home to check out those rare moments when we remember to take the lens cap off. Who knows, we may even learn to edit video at some point. There are only a couple vids at this point including this long lost gem from the magical summer of 2009.

After the mind blowing day Sunday turned out to be we feared that nothing could top it. We made our way back to Nikko Monday morning thinking what could possibly be going on at 10:30 on a Monday morning? [caption id="attachment_180" align="alignleft" width="600" caption="The best way to start the week"][/caption] To our surprise, there was a group of drifters and a group of grip drivers taking turns using...