Hennessey Venom GT
Just “down the street” in Sealy, Tx right outside of Houston, a monster awaits.
Houston’s RiceKiller.com Meet 10/02/2009
The first meetup of the weekly RKC Houston meet. I couldn't stay too long; but the photos that I was able to take are here. Small meet in the beginning, as most people showed up and left. The crowd changed significantly as the hours wore on, so there was a nice spread of cars. However, since I was only able to stay for a 20 minute window, I wasn't able to see everything.
Underground Graphics Meet Houston, TX
A smattering of Subarus, a few Evo's and a boosted S2k all met up at Underground Graphics in Houston to do some early Saturday meeting, greeting, and drinking. Some true beasts were on show, such as the hot Forester XT, a supercharged Honda S2000, and two smoking Lancer Evolutions. Keith from AWDTuning.com did a few road tunes, and Mike from Dent Wizard was on hand to work his magic with some truely incredible results. Great people all around, and some great cars to be seen. Click "Read More" to see all the pictures, or click here to see the thread ...
Kei Truck Drifting
Oh, Japan. When will you cease to put out tons of funny stuff that people overseas just can't seem to understand. What's a Kei truck? It's basically a mini truck, like a Kei car is a mini car, except they're trucks, you know with a bed and stuff. Often found in 4x4 configuration, they're useful for the farmers that need to have a cheap and reliable form of transporting goods around on bad terrain, like in the mountains. Too bad they found their way into the hands of drift enthusiests, now they're being used as drift machines. No joke. Be sure ...
Supercharged Impreza Maddness
If there ever was a definition of "ghetto backyard tuning" this would be it. Brazing over a BBQ flame? Punching big holes by drilling lots of little ones? Venting A/C coolant to the atmosphere? It's all here in this insane thread as "Spudchucker" goes on a mission to supercharge his 2.5 N/A Impreza. Click "Read more" to see all the gorey pictures, or click here to see the thread on RS25. [Source: RS25 Forums] A couple months ago I saw the reddevil and Skidd build threads (congrats on the recent success Skidd!) and after sleeping on it that night, I couldn't think ...
10000lb sliding around the corner
Nah, drifting 3000lb sport compacts is too easy.
1600+HP RX7
Sometimes you just have to bow to the magic of spinning Doritos on a stick. Okay, sorry, it’s been swapped with a twin turbo 427 small block setup from Nelson Racing Engines, but it’s still a hell of a ride!
SubieFest 2009, by Eric Hsu
SubieFest – it’s an all out Subaru extravaganza that was on October 10th this year, in Rosamond, California. Each year it gets more and more impressive, and this year it was no disappointment. Eric Hsu, of Beyond the Dyno (now MotoIQ), attended this year and caught a few interesting pictures to show of some pretty quick and unique Subarus. More pictures and video if you click on “Read More”! Photos by Eric Hsu.
[Source: MotoIQ]
Last Saturday I made it up to Subiefest to check out the Subaru world. These days I don’t have much time to make it out to all the events so usually need to double up on reasons to justify going. Since Ben is in town from the UK and we are working on the ECPro ECU for the EVO X, I figured it would be a great opportunity to check out the Suby scene and do some data logging on the way. Ben has a genuine interest in Subies coming from his past job at Prodrive as a WRC head engine development engineer so he wanted to check out the US Suby scene as well.
Volvos Aren’t Only for Groceries
JCviggen from GenMay just finished up another phase in his turbo Volvo 850 T5-R, fresh in is a new Garrett GT2871R and shiny new conrods. With the boost turned down to 20psi he was able to hammer out a lap around the ‘Ring in just a hair over 8 minutes. Check this link for the thread on GenMay, and watch below for the video!
[Source: GenMay]