Drifting Golf

No, I'm not talking about drifting a VW Golf. Ken from American Gymkhana organized a golf game at El Dorado in Long Beach, CA with a bunch of friends in the "industry" this past Saturday. It was a nice day with a slight breeze. Everybody had a good time and since nobody was a serious golf player, it seemed like we all just went out there to fuck around (at least in my group). In my crew was Andy from HKS, Eddie from Mackin, Kenji from Mackin, Masa from Club Zero. What's Club Zero? Well, we'll save that for another day and another post, but it sure as hell isn't a car tuning related business. For those of you lucky enough to have been there, ya'll already know. Since Ken is pr...

Daily Driver

Out of my 6 cars that I couldn't drive, I finally got to pick up my BNR32 GT-R from XS Engineering. I've never really had to drive this car daily, but I have to now since I have no other car. I never got the chance to finish it either: it's 50% tuned and it's missing some interior panels. Now that I'm driving it daily I'm motivated to finish it up. In fact I just put a head unit in it the other night so I could have some tunes while cruising. I really like driving this car, but it gets a bit too much attention. I can just imagine the amount of attention from daily driving a BNR34 GT-R.

The current set up is: bone stock engine, stock turbos, Do-Luck 90mm exhaust, Do-L...

Morrissey

I got my tix to the Morrissey concert at the Hollywood Bowl on June 8. I'm excited about this concert because The Smiths are one of my favorite bands of all time. Of course the Smiths are broken up, but the genius of Morrissey and Marr's songwriting must now be experienced only through Morrissey these days and Morrissey is still pretty damn good. I wish I was old enough to have experienced The Smiths in concert, but oh well. The Smiths existed only between 1982-87, but in that short time they released 4 of the best records in the world. Yes, you younger people, I said records. The first Smiths CD to be released was "Strangeways, Here I Come" in 1987.

I saw Morrissey ba...

Partying

A couple weeks ago I went to Avalon, a club in LA. It was a good time. I walked out of there at 7am and went to bed at 9am. I really had no idea that the electronic music partying scene was still so alive. You hear about it all the time, but I thought most of it died out along with raves. Of course everybody was fucked up and drinking a lot water (if you know what I'm saying....). The music was trance. I'm not a fan of newer trance, but when you're fucked up who gives a shit. After walking out of the club, my ears were ringing and it took like 4 days for my hearing to fully recover. I guess it was super fucking loud in the club. They even had topless go go dancers which is a...

WTF? No Car!

I just got back from Turkey yesterday and I had to take a taxi to dinner earlier. I currently have 6 cars and I can't drive any of them at the moment. Can you fucking believe that shit? It's partially my fault since I lag on maintaining my 96 Maxima (daily beater) and it was leaking water so the regular maintenance and repairs should be done at XS any day now. My 2000 GS300 has a flat tire because I lag on getting a new tire, but the tire store bent my 20" Work wheel last time they mounted a tire so it leaks. I gotta get that fixed, but that's a whole bitch in itself. My 91 Supra runs, but is not tuned and I haven't had time to finish it. My 94 GT-R runs, but the guys at XS need i...

Yellow Fever

I saw this on you tube. These Wong Fu Productions guys are dope. It's pretty funny, but I couldn't get it to embed right so here's the link:

Turkey - the country by eric

Turkey - the country

I am in Turkey right now for a manufacturing equipment trade show to check out some European machinery for Cosworth. This would be my first trip to the European continent. It was a 16.5 hour flight with a stop in New York. FUCK, it seemed like I was on the plane forever. My ipod battery lasted the entire way though. I didn't think it would last 15 hours.

Anyhow, Turkey is an emerging country that is just moving out of it's traditional ways. Let's say it's a "2nd world" country. There are many luxuries of the western world, but there's that general feel of the city being one giant outdoor market. There are virtually no traffic laws so it's pure chaos on the streets. ...

Long Beach Grand Prix 2007 - Sunday

Sunday was a nice day to begin with. Sunshine, blue sky with a couple of white puffy clouds in the sky and a slight breeze. Later the weather got all jacked up and cold, but for the most part it was nice. I chilled with Gary, Alan, Lawrence from Intec (washington) and a bunch of Gary's friends from San Diego. Lawrence busted out the grill and cooked 4 of the best tasting steaks I think I've ever tasted. No shit. Screw all the aged, prime, or whatever other expensive adjective $60 steaks at the baller restaurants. Lawrence cooked up some econo rib-eyes from Ralphs and it was GOOD. Anyhow, we were drinking beers and barbequeing in front of turns 8 and 9. It was a dope spot and ...

Wack Shit

I was cruising around on Saturday to the LBGP and saw some wack shit:

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Long Beach Grand Prix 2007 - Saturday

Today I went to the grand prix to meet up with Gary from Design Craft, Alan from Sparco, and Jacky the hot freelance journalist chick. We cruised around and saw all kinds of stuff. Today the ALMS (American Le Mans) cars were running which are way dope. I also cruised around the Champ Car paddocks and ran into some of the Cosworth track support peeps. Andy from track support gave me a quick tour of the Aussie Vinyards paddock which was dope because I got to see a lot of the details of the Champ Cars. The Cosworth track support peeps hooked me up with an overcrew pass so I had access to everywhere including track side. Tomorrow is the Champ Car race and SCCA World Challenge race ...