A Different Twist

I have always like Danny's car because its always been different. Theres not to many people running the Sorcery front bumper or the Ings+1 wing, and First Molding side mirrors, but it still flows together so well. I think the Mugen hard top and Voltex risers for the wing are the most recent mods and have really brought everything together. The suspension is not lacking either with Bilstein PSS9 coil overs, and the wheels are pretty cool being Advan RGD's. He has really taken alot of time to source super rare parts, and his car is all about the attention to detail. Everything on the car is authentic too, and I think thats why it looks so good in pictures, most cars look like shit in person and in pictures it looks better, but when I can spot flaw after flaw in good quality pictures its easy to draw conclusions about the quality, and with Dannys car its hard to find any flaws.  

Grip Royal

Looking for a steering wheel? Let me introduce you to new company called Grip Royal. A personal friend of mine decided to come up to me and let me check out his line of steering wheels he has been working on. So off with the Momo wheel and on with the Grip Royal. This is a great steering wheel that has the right amount of dish and the right diameter. This is actually a very strong steering wheel I believe on there website or Facebook page he has posted a strength test video(Im stuck overseas and country shit wont let me watch it). Grip Royal also hinted to me that there is more of the selection of wheels in the works. Also Grip Royal horn buttons and stickers are coming any day now. I can vouch that the hardware is top quality as well, with an allen wrench included. This wheel is priced right too and about $120.00. This is really something I always am interested in when someone comes up with a legit company and offers a legit product to sell and be used to keep the scene moving along. I know there is some of you that wont be interested because you'd rather spend four or five times more money just for some "JDM" or whatever wheel and thats cool. These wheels are race inspired from the Drifting guys, and Grip Royal is wanting to take it further and move into all other racing. So if your looking for a steering wheel pick one these up and support local innovators! Make sure to add Grip Royal on Facebook as well. Im also sharing you followers a 15% off coupon code at the bottom here so when you buy a wheel you can get the hook up!

NOTE that the Momo horn button was used this was prior to Grip Royal horn Buttons.

Make Sure to go to...

Grip Royal Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002620626612&sk=wall

Grip Royal website
http://griproyal.bigcartel.com/

And when you buy a wheel use the code to receive a 15% off discount!!!!
HANGAR9

So Whats Up?

The engine is dead due to Innovative Mounts I had installed. Heres the reason, I installed the mounts earlier this year, and the company shorted me hardware. I called them and asked if I could get my bolts, talked to the woman on phone, that always answers, put me on hold forever like normal and then handed me over to the tech, where he proceeded to give me his spill. You would think for such a large company customer satisfaction would come pretty high and sending me 4 bolts would be no big deal. However it was not the case, the tech said it was a mistake I should use my OEM bolts on my engine and they would not send me hardware. So fine I went ahead, and let it be know at this point that yes I know the left and right mount bolts are different lengths, and I know what a bolt bottoming out feels and looks like, but don't forget I also used a torque wrench. So it was a ticking time bomb with the OEM bolts in the mount. I believe that the when I spun the car at the Auto X it put enough lateral load on the engine and thats with the bolts snapped through the block. Finally took the pan off found the bearing pieces and the block pieces and then found where they came from and why. I called Innovative Mounts back and told them whats up. They told me too bad that it happened and they had no problem sending me the bolts at this point. Gee thanks. I was expecting more than a "I don't care" attitude after all I had told them that this was there fault due to the information giving to me by there tech, who I was talking to. Hopping maybe they would see this and prevent this from happening to someone else. So here I am. This was at in inopportune time, because my Go Pro and ASM front lip was on its way, the car was really coming along. So what do I do went after another engine wanting to keep the stock engine and not have anything crazy I sourced what should have been a stock engine. Took it home put it under the knife carefully taking the damaged pieces off the head and by the way whoever put the head together sucks at life. I was really excited to be back up and running soon. It turned out to be a ERL sleeved block with Wiseco pistons built for boost, this puts me back at square one.

Here was the block pieces

From the mount bolts Picture 1

Picture 2

Comparing wasn't hard

I picked up a Nikon D3100 as I promised for the blog finally last night. I know you keep hearing this but the wheels are still turning at a slow pace. But, I got some essentials down now.  Heres a glimpse at a few pictures I took today.

First Video From The Nurburgring

Okay If anyone has been following Formula 1 you would have know that Sunday they raced at the new track, Lewis Hamilton took the victory and Masa got shafted on the last lap pit decision Ferrari made. But, who cares because Team Redbull didn't win(I wish Ferrari did you tried Alonso)! So what did I do, given my opportunity afforded from my predicament at work? I journeyed back the the Nordschleife aka Green Hell! We rented a BMW 2011 320I diesel rocking snow tires, not quite ideal but you work with what you have right? Its just a toll rode. So of coarse the Nordschleife was packed with a lot of people left over from the weekend and the people there for the nice weather we had that day.  Im going to add more pictures with more of the stories from this past weekend. But this is a video made from one of the runs we did, three of us rented the car, one not really a car enthusiast, and by not really I mean not one all. So the whole concept of what you were doing and how cool it was to be at mecca and all didn't mean as much to him. So as we swiped our card and left the gate I noticed that Lincoln big body was behind us and we joked about make sure that doesn't pass you, sure as shit he didn't just get passed they flew past him. A middle eastern guy with middle eastern tags on a huge boat Lincoln with stuff in the back window and white walled tires blew our doors off, afterwards I was never able to catch up with the guy and share a laugh. So enjoy my first video using the Go Pro thats has advertisements on the blog!

Lots of Updates Coming Soon

Sorry everyone I have been super busy with work and moving. But theres tons of stuff me to catch you all up on! From the death of my engine to some new mods to the GPW S2000, and a trip to the Nurburgring I finally was able to get my Go Pro so the videos will be the first chance I had to use it!!!