Hiatus

I'll post some life updates after Friday. I've bought myself a toy to entertain myself with over the break.

Like an actual toy - don't get excited.

Treated with more care than most cars

Work from home

Mustangs, Cobras, and Greg Moore

Inside one of my friend's garage.

The pictures speak for themselves. The owner's a die-hard race enthusiast. He was good friends with Greg Moore up until his passing years ago. The helmet, gloves, and wheel are all authentic gear used by Greg himself. There was another Mustang in the stall beside. The Cobra was built mostly in his garage over the span of several years. It's loud, driven hard, and thoroughly enjoyed.

I hope I can get into more racing.

Forza Jules

To the young man who gave us all hope that a drive could be earned by talent and dedication over money. You've lightened our hearts and the timing screens. We need you to push harder than you ever have before.

How many STI badges can you fit in 10 centimetres?

Two. Two STI badges.

I don't understand why people put cheap wheels on cars that come with such well made wheels from the factory.

Was also nice to see an STI that's driven off road. Not fun cleaning it though #shopbitch

On track

Thanks Willy for the pic, and Duy for sending it to me.

Really going to miss this car.

Exhaust sold quickly. Surprisingly K-pro is taking a while and isn't drawing much interest. Headlights and lips are popular, just trying to sort things out. Will probably sell the coilovers with the car. Greatly constrained by time and I doubt I'd get much for them.

RE30's and PSS. Fuck me. I have 700kms on these tires and I'm pretty much going to lose 60% of their value even if I separate them. Maybe I'll try returning them to Costco.

I've already watched it many times, but I just finished re-watching Senna. The last thirty minutes of that film are raw, surreal, and powerful. I managed to download a version with interviews from Prost and a few BBC journalists of the era. They offer incredible insight into Senna's endowment and depict how he was able to rationalize for his actions.

Dremmin'

Writing a Communications paper right now. It's due tomorrow morning and I can't focus right now so I'll post pictures of cars.

^dat dur rake, yenno?

I like the last one a lot. 6.5 TME, Juuuust right.

If it ends now, it's still a lifetime achievement

Well.

I'm sure by now you've heard that I'm stripping my car of aftermarket parts and reverting to stock to sell.

It's a little bit of a weird feeling.

This car has taught me everything I've come to learn about cars, the community, the science, engineering, and hard work that needs to be put forth to buy, build, modify, tune, and tweak any kind of object with wheels and a central power unit. It's overwhelming, but incredibly satisfying.

I'm not out of love for cars. I don't think DC5's are bad platforms. I don't think Honda's are bad platforms. Sure they have they're downfalls, but they easily make up for it elsewhere, and it's extremely obvious where they do.

So now. My car. Why am I doing this.

I bought this car and I didn't know what it was. I don't like to admit that I bought it impulsively, because I didn't entirely buy it on impulse. I narrowed it down to three platforms: S-Chasis, CN9A, DC5.

 S-Chasis, at least, the few I was looking at, was a little bit of a letdown. There's a lot of hype surrounding those cars and I can see why. It has the right formula for a good car.

The Evo 4 I drove... holy fuck. 280ish horsepower and 300tq pushing around 2700 pounds is crazy fast. Combined with AWD, it's an absolute fucking menace. I was a bit ambiguous and looked at one with under 90,000 km's on it so the price was just out of my reach.

 And then there's the DC5, which doesn't really need explaining. It's a car that I saw myself growing with. A good introductory to the car world.

I don't really want to say it again because I've said it time and time again, but my intentions for this car weren't clear enough. In the end I was really only satisfied with the exhaust manifold, kpro, and RE30's. I feel like I've said it so many times before so I'll save myself from typing it again. If you want more on this just comment or whatever. Basically I built a gnarly street car when I wanted something more track oriented.

That's what you get for modding your car before going to the track.

If anyone is interested in parts, I've posted everything in the CRSX Canada West Buy & Sell.

http://forums.clubrsx.com/showthread.php?t=1052225




I'll leave you with the last picture of my car that I'll take of it with all of the parts still on.

Emo b&w

$80 tanks of gas. 

Trying to make this tank last four weeks.

Realistically I'll get two and a half.

Oil change yesterday.

Nothing else is new with the car.

I'm back at school now. Finding myself with little to no free time anymore. Sunday is my only day off and is devoted to studying and assignments. Four courses and thirty hours of work fucking sucks.

Still happy as shit, don't get me wrong.

Currently reading a good book. "The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking". It was a required text for my Communications class at uni. It's the first reading I've done at uni which I've enjoyed reading. Most reading are mindless course material related articles that seemingly never end.

I hate being asked what I want to be when I graduate University because I don't have the slightest clue to what I want to do. I fall asleep dreaming of racing cars. How will university help.

Bro, I tracked my car once and my tires have checkers on them.

Immature

A Lan-Evo sure would be nice.

Track Day

Car felt great out on track. Fairly happy with where it is but holy fuck I really would like:

Damper/camber adjustable coilovers
Stopping power
LSD
Rear sway bar
R-comps
Bucket seat
Steering wheel + extended hub
more noise.


Other than that it was perfect.

 Unfortunately I haven't found any on track shots. Only my ricer hard park pictures.

Only problem I had that day was one of my muffler hangers broke and the other kept slipping off. Got a nasty burn on the side of my hand from fixing it. I also had a rock get caught in between my caliper and brake pad (where there's a gap in the caliper closest to the center of the rotor) and it was rubbing against my rotor thus making a horrendous noise. Luckily it happened right as I was parking but still a PITA because I had to take my pad off to get the rock out.

The Michelin PSS handled just like the Star Specs and got better as the day went on. Some were telling me that they get greasy after you put too much heat into them but I didn't run into that problem. Maybe I need to drive faster.

HP+ started to fade in the final laps of my sessions. Held up well for an autocross pad. I was happy with their performance otherwise. I haven't pushed them much since I bedded them in a couple weeks ago. They do give and maintain bite as they get warm. Holy fuck were they loud after.

The black WRX belongs to my friend Stephen. To give you an idea of how hard this course is on brakes, we just put on new brake pads (albeit OE) two days before and within 3 sessions, only one of which we could actually push, he had to park his car due to overheating issues. Unfortunate because our cars are almost neck and neck with each other and we set times at Go-Karting within a few hundreths of a second within each other.

I'll be back for more. Uni starts again this upcoming week so I'll be busy juggling courses and work. I'll be pulling insurance off the car earlier this year.If I'm lucky I'll get one more event in before I do.

Ricer brake dust pictures

Also, this FD RX7 was next level.

Private Label MFG full Race Header install at Racing Greed

I bought this header used a while back. Price was right and I couldn't resist free shipping from buttfuck nowhere in the States. I tried putting this on with a friend a few weeks ago but quickly found out it wouldn't fit since the header had a 2-bolt flange and my midpipe is 3-bolt. I'm shit at welding and haven't done any in about 5 years so I took it down to RG today to get it put on.

Nice and clean weld where they cut the test pipe to fit the new flange on.

 Beast 3 Rotor FD that was hanging out.

 Reflection of the shop's Evo VIII in the window.

 This guy was picking up some race gas. Evo X's have grown on me. Wasn't too keen on them when they were first released.

 Shoving this K20a2 into a first gen Mini.

Crazy exhaust manifold.


I learned pretty early on in car ownership not to cheap out on getting work done on your car. I'll gladly pay someone double or more than someone else that I'll risk having to bring it back to. It's a hassle and a pain in the ass and I'd rather have to do it once.

Plus RG always has something interesting going on.