SPEED HERO Blog — speed hero

So, I was driving down the same chunk of road again as the last post, but I remembered the cars I had forgotten when posting. a big "OH fuck!" as a eureka moment occurred during my un-lapse of memory. The forgotten ones. The Pontiac 6000 STE. Sure, your used to the gooole (Parts counter joke), but the STE was a rare AWD performance model of the 6000! GM during the mid and late 80's, the more I read, seem to have had a pile of amazing...

Photographic evidence of automative assault and tire terrorism. Were you there? Round three was definitely the most intense shoot out yet. Without the constant debilitating engine issues that plagued round two, the battles were amazing and it meant that the push for first was fought out between Grant Kozier in his semi-famous S2000 powered 86 and Myles Mayland in his SR20'd Nissan 240sx. In the end, we had Kozier in first, Mayland in second and newcomer Chirs (probably has a last name) in his 3tc powered...

I don't have much to say about this event other than I simply need to participate more. See you guys on BC day. Drifting and show n' Shine! www.capitaldrift.ca [gallery columns="4" orderby="rand"]

The E7 loves continue with a lapse in my memory. How could one forget the wicked Griffith built E7 Corolla convertible! What most people don't know is that almost all convertibles made start their lives out as hardtops. Toyota and most other manufacturers do not built the convertibles in house but rather send them to 'coach' builders. The hardtop car shows up at companies such as American Sunroof Corperation, Griffith, etc, and they just hack the roof off, add some chassis braces and start bolting and gluing shit together. It's standard practice! Want to see more old Japanese coach built...

So you love your E7 Corolla do ya? Let's go through some basics with them! So what the hell does E7 mean anyway? Well, many of you awesome fanboys out there understand that the AE86 is a RWD corolla sold by Toyota, also known as Sprinter Trueno or Levin. I'm sure most of you know that those letters and numbers are the code for the frame of the car and actually have a specific meaning! A: Stands for the series of engine the car came with. In...