Ricer Wings on F1 Cars

I've never really had the chance to look at an F1 car up close. Here at the Autosport show in the UK, I did get to see multiple F1 cars up close. They are probably just show cars, but they are faithful representations of the current 2008 cars. Boy, I have to say that F1 has definitely gone ricer. Allow me to show you what I mean.

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United Kingdom

I just got into the UK this morning. Or was it afternoon? Jetlag and timezones got me all screwed up. I haven't even recovered from the Japan jet lag yet. The flight on United's Economy Plus wasn't too bad. No Tokyo Auto Salon for me this year (it's going on right now).

I met my boss Ken at his hotel after landing at Heathrow. There I got a cup of coffee for $6 and sat down. I stared at the menu and saw this:
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First Crashed R35 GT-R

Stolen from the Jalopnik blog (which is a really good blog site BTW):

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XS Clearance & Specials

I just heard from Troy that the XS Engineering website's clearance section is picking up some serious steam. Some of the parts are really starting to move. If you've been thinking about buying something from the site, you should do it now because everything is limited in quantity. I wish I had time to build multiple cars are use all these parts, but time is always on short supply. There is literally almost something for every popular Japanese car from the mid 80's to present day. Anyhow, check it out and score the deal you've been waiting for today.

Option Magazine - R35 GT-R Exhaust Test by eric

Option Magazine - R35 GT-R Exhaust Test

You should go and pick up a copy of the February 2008 copy of Option Magazine. Hiro the editor in chief just sent me a copy because there's a feature of Cosworth in it. Aside from the fact that there's a bitchin feature of Cosworth in it (and a picture of yours truly with a stupid ass smile), the main focus of this issue is the R35 GT-R. There's also a R35 GT-R catback exhaust test in it where some shop fabricated a titanium catback exhaust and the car made 507.9ps (500.95hp) at the flywheel. Granted, this test was conducted on a Dynapack so it probably read 5% or higher than any other dyno, but the gain of 22ps is for real. If you can't do the math, that's 485ps from the factory whi...

Leah Dizon

At a party on new year's eve in Tokyo the TV was on in the background. On this NHK TV special that was this smoking hot chick that couldn't sing for shit. Sure I just described about 85% of the female J-pop "artists", but this one looked familiar. Sure enough it was Leah Dizon. She was singing her heart out, but she could BARELY stay in key. I mean she straight out sucked at singing. That's ok in asia though where pop stars are popular simply because they look good. If you search google for images of her, you can see...

Happy New Year, 2008

Happy New Year and good luck in 2008! Now stop cruising blogs and go spend some time with your ...

Tokyo and Cars

Yesterday I went for a morning run at Niseko after the rain, but the slopes were really icy. I was kicking ass full speed, hit an icy divot and flipped over the top side falling on the left side of my butt and hit my head harder than a motherfucker on the ice at the same time. That was on my 2nd run down the mountain. Needless to say, I was done with Niseko. When the conditions are great, Niseko has bomb ass powder. Overall I would recommend Niseko for serious boarding, but warning: there are no ski bunnies (good looking chicks). If you want the hot chicks, you have to go to the man made snowboarding slopes in Tokyo.

We got back to Tokyo last night and had the best Yakiniku...

Niseko, Japan on December 29, 2007

Rain, sleet, and dirty snow is the forecast today as well as 55km/h winds. The windshield facto...

Snowboard Binding Angle

So I'm not an experienced snowboarder or anything nor do I claim to be. In fact my trip to Niseko (where I am at the moment) is only my 6th or 7th trip to a mountain for snowboarding. I am not hardcore into boarding, I do not give a shit about jumping or doing tricks, and I don't really care to look all stylish while doing it. I just enjoy kicking ass gliding over snow and slicing and dicing through turns. I own a pair of snowboard pants, some water resistant socks, some low buck Thinsulate gloves, some early 90's SCOTT Turbo goggles, and some thermal underwear. The gloves I use are not name brand and cost me $9. The SCOTT goggles were pretty much new, but I bought them in high sch...