SPEED HERO Blog — supra

Pairs upon piles of 5M's.

I can't fight it. I shouldn't fight it. I've just have a magnetism to 5M powered vehicles. Though it seems more often then not they seem to find me. My first 5m powered car was in the form of a free '81 Supra. This was a free donation from the owner, the only one in the bunch I never got to slide. More on the story of it in 'The Beginnings". This little duck is so far the only 5ME, I've owned. 81Supra The was a white automatic ghost...


Interacting with the world.

This is a video of stuff, mushed together. [youtube=http://youtu.be/pwj1YvBFbtI]


My Own Matsuri.

I'll never have the money to go to Japan, buy a car, and compete in the G1-Gp at Ebisu Matsuri. However, I don't let that keep me from dreaming. I know, I'm a huge nerd, but we've all got our fantasy's, mine just happens to be beating the snot out of a car for as many hours as I can stay awake. The game? rFactor, not a favorite of mine,...


10 Reason Mk3 Supras are Garbage.

Actually, let's be honest here, they are most likely the worst Toyota ever built. These are my top 10 reasons for hating the mk3 supra. How do I know them so well? I worked on them for nearly 2 years, I drove both RHD and LHD mk3's with all sorts of different engines, stock and modified. I've spent a lot of time wrenching on them, and man do they suck badly.  Let's begin: 10. Racing History:  Let's be honest, there's really nothing special here, Bjorn Waldergard won...


Loss of Roots

I spent nearly 2 years with Phil, crammed in a little shop in Waterloo Ontario. Adrenaline motorsports was not only a place of business, but a home to me and my obsession with cars. I had some of the best times in my life in that little shop, hacking up cars, mushing pieces of metal together and driving them around it. It was a place of creation but also learning, as Phil took me under his wing and although we fought about it a lot, showed me the right way to do things, often the professional way to get things...