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Winter Wednesdays: Achtung

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DaveT
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I was pretty surprised yesterday when I went to leave Joyride and was greeted with a snow covered car, with Christmas being so green I just sort of assumed we were not getting snow for awhile.

With snow comes a lot of things that suck: extended travel times, frozen doors, reduced visibility and worst of all salt.

However snow also brings with it some good like drifting (or e brake sliding), snowboarding, and most importantly the return of Winter Wednesdays here on SIE.

For those of you who were not reading last year Winter Wednesday is when I post low cars in snowy conditions every Wednesday there is a snowfall (or remnants of a recent snowfall) here in the GTA.

Today’s photos are not exactly new but don’t worry, winter is just getting started.




If anyone knows the original photo credit of these shots holler as I spotted them on gawa.

Also if you have not done so already take a look at the shot of Alex’s daily driven show car at Blue Mountain I uploaded to the fanpage today.

Theme Tuesdays: Favourite Shots of 2011

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DaveT
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I had another theme ready to go today until I realized that this was the last Tuesday of the year and I should do something ‘special’ for the occasion.

Going to events and shooting features for a year adds up to a large number of photos and since I have never really brought together my personal favourites before I figured that was enough of a theme to go with for today.

These shots are in no particular order.

Favourite Event Coverage Photos

No matter how often I see it and shoot hop contests I will always be a sucker for a shot like this.

There is always so much worth capturing in the moment; the focus in the eyes of the judge, the detailed under carriage, and the captivated crowd.

Event Coverage: Parking Lot Pimpin’ 3

I had to wait for the sea of people to part around this car at the ‘Stakes Is High’ Stretch and Poke meet because I wanted to try and capture a photo similar to this one.

I wish I shot this photo in raw so I could have lightened up the diffuser and muffler area a little more, oh well.

Event Coverage: S&P June 19th 2011: Part 2

On set-up night of Importfest 2011 Liberty VIP rolled in a little late and once they got into the lobby Brett wasted no time getting his car ready.

Since he was ready before everyone else I decided to take some photos of his car knowing I wouldn’t be able to replicate this shot the day after.

I think I spotted it as his signature on Stance Works too which is cool.

Event Coverage: Importfest 2011 Part:1

The Scraped Crusaders live up to their name, and this photo is actually the second time I captured this fact with my camera.

Luckily I happened to be heading back to my car when they were moving their cars from the parking lot to a more visible area kicking up dust and pushing rocks the entire way.

Event Coverage: CSCS 2011 Round II: Part 1

Two miracles in this shot; the first is the remarkable fact that a CSCS Drag racing was running perfect all day with no rain delays, and the second is that I managed to get an in focus pan shot of this car which was really moving down the strip.

Next year I need to remember to bring my tripod along for panning shots.

Event Coverage: CSCS Opener 2011: Pt 1

The only thing better than capturing a Skyline about to go on the track is capturing on on the track.

Even though I failed to get this one on the track I still like this photo.

There is always next year to see it run anyway.

Event Coverage CSCS 2011: Round III Pt 2

I didn’t attend as many Street Classics events as I did previously but the ones I did show up to all had great turnouts.

To me this photo really captures all of the great parts of a Street Classics Cruise in.

Including a sea of vehicles built before auto makers started catering more towards ‘appliance’ cars.

The only thing this photo doesn’t have is 50s music.

Event Coverage: Street Classics July 9th 2011

Anthony had a pretty good 2011 season picking up a new sponsor and driving fairly consistently at all of the events I saw him compete in.

This shot was taken during the demo where he was showing off a little bit (hence the arm out the window) and I like it mostly for the same reasons I like the Mustang panning shot from up above, things that should be in focus are more or less in focus.

Event Coverage: CSCS Finale 2011 Part: One

Dan has one of the most recognizable s2000s in the GTA and this year his car has rightfully received a ton of love online.

This ants eye view angle really captures how low the car really is.

I’ve never seen his lip look anything but pristine either.

Event Coverage: S&P – United We Stance

It is always cool to see people rocking stickers for the site on their cars especially stickers as big as the Importfest exclusive ones.

Thanks to everyone for the support in 2011 and Adam here for putting his in such a high profile spot.

Event Coverage: CSCS Finale 2011 Part: Two

Favorite Feature Photos

Prior to shooting Matt’s car I had never done any of the feature photography on the site.

My girlfriend (who is still a far, far, better photographer than I am) convinced me to get out and start doing some of the features myself  and helped me out with Matt’s shoot.

When I got home I was pretty happy with most of the shots.

Featured Ride: Matt’s 2001 S2000

There are actually two buildings in this location and of the two this is not the one I had planned on using. However the shots in front of the other building were just not working out as much as I’d hoped.

So I shot in front of this building instead and was able to get a few photos that worked better including this one.

There was a bum sleeping inside of the other building anyway.

Featured Ride: Richie’s SLK 350

Mina’s car is pretty photogenic so it wasn’t really hard to get a lot of good shots of it. The hardest part came later when I was editing the photos because J’s Racing Teal turned out to be a hard colour to capture accurately.

I scouted this location before hand and this was one of the photos I had in my mental shot list, very happy with how it turned out.

Featured Ride: Mina’s Golf GTI

That is pretty much it for my favourite photos of 2011, next week I will return to the normal Theme Tuesday format and I should have an event coverage retrospective going up Thursday.

Outside of the box(ing day)

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DaveT
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In about twenty or so minutes my house is going to be full of people and food for round 2 of Christmas feasts so I don’t really have a heck of a lot of time.

However there isn’t really much that needs to be said about this incredibly awesome custom (looks like Ford based) hot rod that Team Penguin spotted in September.

According to the post the owner built what he wanted and doesn’t seem to care if people love it or hate it.

I think it is obvious which side of the fence I am on.

Something menacing about the wheel tire choice on this build
The long low Stance is also incredible
Exhaust leaving it's mark on those running boards
Simply love the raw polished metalwork
Spartan purposeful interior

If anyone knows more about this car and can link me to a build or more photos I would appreciate it. Further photos from this set can be found on: Team Penguins Blog

I better jet before the doorbell rings and I’m here typing away, hope everyone is enjoying their Holidays thus far.

WTF Friday: Supercharged V8 Intrepid

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DaveT
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Amazed, and confused. Both of those words describe my initial reaction to seeing a rear wheel drive, supercharged v8 powered, Chrylser Intrepid.

I guess its not all together ridiculous.Intrepids can’t be worth all that much these days and they do happen to have very large engine bays.

I’ve also came to learn that the exhaust tunnel can double for a drive shaft tunnel provided you route the exhaust elsewhere.

I suppose like most of the swaps I post on Fridays the question isn’t why, it is why not? I can’t really think of a good reason not to put the motor in there if you have both kicking around.

Wonder what it runs?
Not sure what this motor is puting out either

The yellow accenting though… I wouldn’t have put that on there and I may have perhaps forgone the blower for more of a sleeper look like this one (yes there is more than one).

Photo Credit: Dave7

There is a build on the black one in the video linked above here, nothing on this one though. Unless of course this is the same one as that just later along.

Site Updates

Hoping to get an event coverage year and review post up next week, not sure when I will work on it but it would be the next ‘big’ thing coming for 2011 with more features resuming 2012.

I also found out a feature I wrote made print so I have to see if I can get a hold of that as well.

Flasback Friday

Don’t normally flash back to past WTF Fridays but this Skynoma is awesome and I am going to see if I can find more of it (if I do it will make the fan page)

Happy Holidays!

Not too late to late to get your favorite Canadian auto blogger and Audi A3.

Featured Photographer: Nick Busato

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DaveT
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I’ve known Nick for a few years now and one thing I realized about him early on is that he is a perfectionist who sets the bar for himself incredibly high.

When he rode it wasn’t uncommon to see him do a trick over and over until he deemed it was perfect, even though the rest of us thought it was perfect sixteen tries previous.

These days he has focused his passion towards photography and has approached it with the same mindset.

Vivid Tranquility

Lost in the woods

Menacing Darkness

Into The Abyss

If I were to ask Nick which of his photos were his favorite chances are he would only answer me after explaining how each of them could be better if he were to shoot them all again.

But that’s just Nick, he is not the type to ever stop trying to improve or settle for ‘pretty good’ and this is the reason why I believe that the sky is truly the limit when it comes to how far automotive photography is going to take him in the future.

The Stare

Guillaume Moreau

A Moment Of Calm

In the year or so that he has truly dedicated himself to capturing motorsport Nick has been fortunate enough to travel to several  events in the United States at famed venues such as Watkins Glen, and Lime Rock.

A little closer to home he has also covered three different top tier events here at Mosport Raceway in Bomanville Ontario.

We Are Number One

Rob Dyson, One Happy Team Owner

With this caliber of coverage under his belt in his first year don’t be surprised if you start to see Nick’s name and watermark attached to some of your favorite racing photos in years to come.

It is really awesome to be able to showcase some of Nick’s work here on Stance Is Everything and I couldn’t think of a better photographer to close out features for the year.

Blast Off

Speed From This Vantage Point

Nick would like to thank the guys at Inside Track and Ryan from Mosport for all of their help in 2011.

If you like what you see here check out all of Nick’s work at flickr.com/jamesbusato/.

As Nick got the year end feature I asked him for  a lot of photos and he certainly delivered so here are a few more:

Prost Puts the Rebellion To Work

Frantic Calm

I Believe I Can Fly

Hinchtown

Sebastian Saavedra Has A Wheel Lifting Experience

S For Scheckter

Caught Slippin’

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DaveT
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Turns out I need to dust off my Bimmer Forums account because apparently sleeping on that forum has resulted in my missing cars like this unreal Laguna Seca Blue 2002.

Good thing Jay at Stance Factory has got my back and forwards along the good great stuff.

This 2002 is incredible and perhaps the best use of LSB ever?

From what I understand the poster and his father restore/mod 2002s for a living and sold this one to move on to the next…damn.






Just to further blow your mind reportedly this is the car before rebuild, humble beginnings indeed.

Thread.
Photo Credit:Steven Pham

If this 2002 isn’t up your ally (for some reason) HEIST’s build on Stance|Works just got real.

This...
Plus this... cue purists screaming in agony

Theme Tuesday: Hydraulics, No Wires

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DaveT
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Last week in jest I made the following comment when posting that clean Fiesta:

“when was the last time you saw a car with hydraulic suspension that didn’t have wires?”

After reading that a few people on the fan page urged me to look a little harder into the land of hydraulic (or Hydropneumatic) suspension to broaden my horizons. So I did.

While I had guessed a few people outside of the traditional lowrider community were dabbling in the land of juice I was surprised to see how widespread the use of hydraulics is over a variety of platforms.

I honestly had no idea that in some causes hydraulics are simply the best alternative for people looking to go low when they have a platform that is not so mainstream.

Cars

No Impalas, Caddys, or Lincolns here just cars you might not expect to be juiced…

Neither coils or bags got Adams Saturn this low
So he threw this in the trunk (old pic and the car is currently undergoing a makeover)
One of the craziest things about hydraulics is the obscene amount of lift...
Juiced Punto... very Euro
Hydro setup in the spare tire well
Look another Fiesta
Lift again...
Hydroholics CL
Very intricate hardline setup
GS made to tuck tons of wheel
Tubs.
Where there is a will there is a way
This ZX apparently on hydraulics...
Couldn't find any pictures of the setup though...
Showed this to guest blogger Josh and I think he cried a bit
Perhaps I should have showed him this one first
One of several MB's I found juiced on VIP Style Cars
As low as you want it
but if you want to slap 24s on it for a rap video shoot you have the ability
Wish I was able to find better pics of this one
A vet amongst the VIP community
This car has LEDS in the wheel wells... neat effect, works well in this shot
Same car at ride height
This Wald kitted Benz (and its owner) were in literally every thread I checked on the subject
I think he has ties with Hydroholics one of the people really turning the game on its head

Trucks

There are lots of trucks on ‘dros but I decided to limit myself to these two unique applications

Mitsubishi Might Max... another Hydroholics ride
Super clean bed setup
This Armada (again Hydroholics) looked mighty familiar
Then I remembered I had seen it at SEMA
The suspension makes a hair more sense now

It turns out that a properly built hydraulic setup can ride just as good as an air ride setup thanks to accumulators which allow the ride quality to be adjusted an infinite amount of ways.

The more you know.

This thread is a good read on the subject if you  are interested.

Props to Adam and Jared for pushing me to look a little more into this.

Here is a video of the Wald Benz:

Green With Envy

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DaveT
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Two weeks ago sifting through what seemed like endless amounts of Hot Import Nights coverage I stumbled across a photo in my reader posted by eyegasmic cars that caught my eye.

Intrigued I set out to find the original photo and more on the car.

After tracking down photographer Scott Kroeker I was able to not only get permission to re-post the photos but also obtained the contact information of the builder Brent.

The Chevy before Brent tore into it

Both Brent and Scott were on board with running the photo set here but things got really interesting when I asked Brent if he had a build thread for this bad ass Chevy.

One page into the build thread I was absolutely blown away by how much work had gone into this car.

The build is just as interesting as the final product.

Cut up...
...and put back together

On the first page of the build Brent made made chopping and sectioning the car look like child’s play.

Further along his creativity and perfectionism emerged when he worked and then re worked the rear window of the car until it flowed perfectly. When he was finished with the rear window for the second time he turned to the front of the car where he extended the headlight buckets so that he could use Olds headlight rings.

A this time he also fabricated front and rear bumpers from a combination of Oldsmobile and Chevy bumper and grill pieces.

At this point many 'professional' body shops would throw in the towel
Ya... it snows a bit in Manitoba

One of the more interesting small details to this build sits in the grill. Holding the two signal lights is a polished aluminum baseball bat that has been cut in half,  not sure where Brent got that idea but it is pretty unique.

In the midst of doing all of this fab work Brent also figured this platform would be the perfect candidate for his first air ride install, so he did that as well.

The bags were a great choice because it’s new slammed height has a lot to do with why it ended up here.

Polish underway... I love the fact he ended up keeping it bare.

After the body was polished and the car was running Brent had his friend Ian Kroeker come down and do all of the pin striping on the car including simulated rivets.

The final product shot by Scott Kroeker is below:

No paint - still shinin'
Everything about this shot just seems right
Desktop, poster, postcard, worthy
Christine?
Perfect.

Brent took a car that the earth was trying to claim back and turned in into an award winning masterpiece using his own two hands and the respect I have for people like Brent is immeasurable.

I can only hope that when the time is right for me to really build (not assemble) a car I will be able to do so with even half as much skill.

Unsurprisingly Brent also has his own custom shop in Manitoba called Halfass Kustoms.

Photo Credit: Scott Kroeker
Build Thread: Projects 50 Chev chop/section

WTF Friday: When Air Tanks Explode

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DaveT
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There is a build thread I am reading on Stance|Works (one of the better threads of late) that talks about unorthodox tanks for air ride setups.

The original posters plan was to run a multiple piece rectangular tank stack and there has been a lot of helpful (key word) discussion about how he should go about doing so safely.

Many mentioning the importance of pressure testing the tanks to avoid blow outs like this.

The following is a set of chrome tanks that blew up after a week or so of 200psi.

The ends of the tank literally popped off
A few people mentioned how odd it was the plastic fittings had no issues
Probably sounded like a bomb...
If it did that to a Caddy trunk...

I found these photos over on layitlow.com where there has been quite a bit of discussion regarding chrome tanks.

Imagine this happened while the guy was driving or working on the car? Air ride is serious business.

This is the tank setup the original posted settled on after testing the setup which he says won’t see over 150psi.

The original posters final setup pressure tested up to 190psi and 155 PSI for 24hrs

And this just might be one of the best looking tank setups I have ever seen.

Would hate to see something like this rad explode

Site Updates

From now until I run out every order will ship with a lanyard courtesy of Nextmod.

Additionally from now until the end of January every other order will receive something from ‘the box’.

The box contains posters, stickers, dvds, and calendars.

Flashback Friday

Next ride Subaru (GRB STI is what I want) or A3 (2.0t)? I can’t call it.

Still love this.

Shot by: flickr.com/photos/theredbeard/

Less than a week before Christmas… doubtful an A3 will show up under the tree.

Readers Rides: Email Edition

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DaveT
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There has been a steady increase in the amount of previous, under construction, and current  readers rides that have arrived via email over the past six months.

As most of the past readers rides posts have focused on cars from the fan page I decided to dedicate this one strictly to cars that have shown up in the [email protected] inbox.

This is by no means all of them, and I plan to do a few more of these before the winter is over.

Brian’s Eclipse Spyder GT

Before Brian sent in his Eclipse Spyder I can’t recall coming across too many others online.

This generation just didn’t seem to take off like the one before it but Brian saw the potential and has dropped his car on Megan coils, installed Eibach camber bolts, and slapped on a set of 17×10 XXR 527s with 215/40 tires.

This XXR wheel has been very popular in 2011
Streeeeetch

Lee’s F150

Lee sent in another platform I don’t see much of, a 1995 F150. He has already dropped he truck 5 inches (they come pretty high) and says that next season when he gets new wheels he plans to go lower.

Lee hails from a small Iowa farming town so I am pretty sure his truck raises a few eyebrows.

He says most of the other vehicles in his town are all lifted 4x4s…

Stock height
Dropped 5 inches

Jeremy’s X-Runner

Keeping the outside of the box platform going a little bit more here is Jeremy’s Tacoma X Runner that he picked up after moving on from his b16 swapped CRX.

It sits on 20s has been dropped 4″ in the front and 3″ in the rear. He has also installed a short shifter, CAI, and extensive stereo.

He sent the email awhile back but he did also mention a few future plans….

I think this would look pretty bad ass on the floor

Colin’s s2000

Colin has been reading for awhile now and actually a friend of John (with the wide body Mazda 3). A few months ago he sent in some photos of his s2000 and the CF front end and bolt on rear flares instantly grabbed my attention.

The photos below are from his most recent shoot with a local photographer before the thermometer went south.

Feels like autumn only lasted a couple days...
Is Livin' The Low Life still on?
I am sure this car is tucked away now

Zend’s 2001 BMW 540i

Zend was actually one of the first people to send in his car via email and is a fellow maxbimmer member.

Before he moves on from this car (which also happens to be his first) to his dream car (a 2003 M5) Zend plans to squeeze as much fun out of his 540i as possible.

A couple of bolt-on under the hood  along with HR coils and 19×8.5 19×10 Linea Corse LeMans wheels make up the current list of modifications, though he is hoping to add a supercharger before things are all said and done.

Zend's 5 lookin' very clean
Hope you were not at the theater to watch the Smurfs Zend!

Sean’s Lancer GTS

Sean lives about 45 minutes from me but I think he could cover the distance much faster than I could because a) my car is wood and b) he has done quite a few performance modifications to his GTS.

The most significant under hood addition would have to be the snail amd Sean informs me that it is first (and only) N/A to turbo converted Lancer GTS in Canada.

The mods list on this car is quite extensive so if you are interested in reading everything that has been done check out his build thread.

Sean's goal was a tasteful, functional, clean car, and it looks like mission accomplished
Tein coils bring this car down from factory height
A peak under the hood of this N/A to F.I. car

Max’s Subaru

Max from Mojomotors was quick to express his love for the blog (thanks) and send a photo if his 2002 WRX.

He only sent one though so maybe I can grab a few more for the second round.

Bugeye love

Spence’s e46 Touring

Spence sent his OEM+ styled touring with a little bit of bad news. After dropping it on KW’s, and adding m6 replica wheels the car was involved in some sort of fiasco involving two teenagers and a deer.

The car didn’t survive, bummer.

Sad to say this car is no longer with us

Ben’s Fleet

Going to end this off with a few photos from Ben out in Florida. He sent over some pictures of his previous and current rides all of which have been dropped somewhere from low to slammed.

Personally I am a big fan of the trucks (big surprise right?).

Normally when you see a Civic near a cruiser it is bad news
Ben's e46
Ben's bagged American truck
And Ben's bagged import truck

Want to see your ride up on the site? Email me at [email protected]

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