SPEED HERO Blog
Illusion of Speed
Carbon Fiber, Titanium, Nitrous, and other space age materials are really interesting stuff, expensive stuff. Such things seem to have a very high numerical value, numbers number numbers. Closet Accountants, time slips, bank accounts. It is all 'speed'. Can you tell me what is fast? Can you tell me, what is illusion? Speed in the automotive world is defined simply as the feeling of traveling fast. Long long ago, people began hopping behind the wheel of cars, bikes, planes, etc and competing against each other to measure, or judge each...
Driftmania followed a deep driftdepression
My jaunt to DMCC at Western Speedway started much like the rest of the drift events, at the crack of dawn walking a ridiculous distance. What the hell kind of word is jaunt? The big disappointment of the day was not seeing the Toyo/Cannonball R34 run. Apparently it blew an oil pump and was under heavy repair the rest of the event.
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V-Dubbin' my own lyrics over your beats.
Canned Goods are the bomb! [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="800" caption="All Bro'd out."][/caption] Sean aka 81Cabrio from VWarmy.net let me at his photobucket account to share with you some pictures from Boarder Bash event in Windsor this past Sunday. Check it out!
Seans a pretty rad dude, him and I met in a typical DQ way, I was in reverse. Pulled along the side of the highway on my way out to Guelph for my young lady. A blacked out, phone dialed,...
Dorikaze and DMCC, weekend of champions!
As a prelude to the DMCC West event on Saturday, the Vancouver Island Dorikaze community decided to meet up. It was a great collection of enthusiasts and the turnout was pretty spectacular.
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Hand Stamps and Wrist Bands
Wow! What a strange week. We spent 60 hours building up a Lexus V8 MA61 Supra to go drag racing on Friday night.... [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Pat Cyr owns Ontario"][/caption] So, 60 hours into rebuilding the brakes, redoing the entire wiring harness, new fuel lines and other basic maintenance. Roll it out to the track....BANG POP POW! The 1uzfe sounds so good coming out the poorly welded cherry bombs that a bunch of muscle car guys come over to give props; hand shake, fist bumps and head...