Winter is starting to get a little tiresome. At the end of last week we were teased with fairly mild weather but at a cost because it was just incredibly windy for two days straight. Then just as a remind that spring doesn’t start ‘officially’ until March 21st we got a decent amount of snow on Sunday night and the weather has turned back to double digits below zero.
I guess looking on the bright side we all have at least 1 month left (unless you are in Performance World or sunnier climates) to get all of our ducks in a row for the 2011 season.
Winter sticking around also means I can keep posting low cars in the snow like this Lupo on Schmidt TH lines.
Some of the smallest TH lines I have ever seen, still dope thoughReal winter car lurking out back looks like
Last night I had envisioned doing a ‘Favorites of Wekfest 2011’ Theme Tuesday (since I was not there) but when I started looking for photos I was having a hell of a time finding ones that were not full of hoards of people.
I noticed a few better photos popped up this morning but I generally don’t like posting Theme Tuesdays after work so here are some more awesome automotive photos I felt needed to be shared.
Start off with what was probably an intense momentThis car appears as though it's street legalI need to experience thisHands up if you had a poster of this car on your wall as a kidIt was really hard for me not to post this with the rest of the P cars not too long agoI would probably kill myself on a bike but I would still like to own oneRidaz!Lucky Subaru driverSideways open wheel cars is becoming a fetish of mineMore open wheel amazingSpark it or park itRoastinJust a sick photoIf only cops were actually this coolOne of the many reasons I want a Subaru one dayNever lift
One of the best parts about being a car enthusiasts in this internet age is that it’s incredibly easy to connect with other scenes around the globe. With less than an hour and a few clicks you can see what’s going on in Europe, North America, and Japan. This means that tuning styles are no longer regionally based.
Andre, who is from Brazil, got hooked on clean, low, cars fast thanks to international forums like NASOIC and blogs like this one. Once the bug bit it wasn’t long until Impreza was on sitting much closer to the earth.
Andre started things off with a great canvas, the deep burgundy paint on his Impreza isn’t a color you see often which meant it was just a few quick modifications away from being a real head turner.
Andre switched up the front end of his Subaru with a Trial style hood (equipped with 22b vents), an HTAuto grill, and retro fitted headlights alongside clear corners and turn signals.
He also bolted up a custom lip under the bumper to help emphasize the healthy static drop on the car that was achieved not by coil overs but instead with via custom rated springs and dampers.
In Brazil this type of suspension is called ‘fixa’ and is done by those who love to ride low 24/7 and 365 days of the year.
With the car nice and low Andre put on a set of STI side skirts to bring the car even closer to hover craft status and since his attention was already focused on the sides of the car he installed Gandor style mirrors.
In the rear of the car a custom wing sits above a de-baged trunk, STI tails, and a custom rear bumper and by now you have probably already noticed that pointing out from below that bumper is a Zelo muffler which gives the stock 1.8 motor an opportunity to expel it’s gasses a little faster and louder.
For wheels Andre chose to re-drill a set of oem Evo 5 OZ Racing F1 wheels (17×7.5 et 38), which finished in gold really look like they should have been on this car from the factory.
The wheels also really bring together all of the tasteful mods Andre has done to the car.
Andre’s car is incredibly well thought out and and put together and I’m very happy to have it as an international feature here on Stance Is Everything.
Big thanks to Andre for sending it in and his friend Felipe Gobor for shooting the photos.
In about an hour or so I set off to State College Pennsylvania to get in a weekends worth of BMX riding at Woodward Camp, so I’m going to get straight to what you guys want to read and then back to my (last minute) packing.
The winners of the February sticker give away are Dallas, mb190, and Tammy if that’s your name please check the email you commented with so you can let me know which stickers you want from the S.I.E. store and where I should send them to.
Thanks everyone for entering and a special thank you to Seche Media, Sweetie Girl Racing, Supermade, and Nextmod for contributing the vinyl schawg and making another give away possible.
Now, getting back to normal Friday whatever, here is a 2 Fast 2 Furious parody done by a group of comedic Volvo owners.
I know at the very least Josh (who submitted Blenda) will enjoy this because of his Fast & The Furious obsession and Joe (auto encyclopedia), probably as well because he’s a Volvo guy.
But hopefully the rest of you find it funny as well.
Nothing really, just continuing to ramp up for the new season on both the blog front and personal vehicle front.
More on both things to come soon but here is an update of my Work Equip test fit from last weekend for those who are not part of the facebook fan page.
I ended up getting the wheels bored out to 73.1mm so they not only fit my 3 but will fit any other car with a 5×114.3 bolt pattern if the appropriate centering rings are used.
Once I got them home I test fit them on my car:
The machine job did a fantastic jobFront fitment is basically bang onThe rear fitment is more aggressive than the front but my camber arms will make it work
All said and done my fitment should be pretty close to JDR’s, once complete.
However I’m still unsure whether to run just staggered widths (215/40) all around or run staggered widths and staggered tire sizes (205/40 up front 215/40 out back).
I have both sets of tires but if I go with the second option it leaves me with no functional alternative setup for when I want to do any sort of driving event.
Hmm… Any tire companies out there want me to test for them? 😉
Flash Back Fridays
Since I reworked the search page a couple months ago, to make my host happy, it’s made searching for older posts like this one much easier.
In this post I mentioned that we need to step up our car show game here in Canada because Budapest was/is kicking our ass.
All the Volkswagen fans, my apologies, until someone mentioned it on facebook I had not noticed it had been some time since I posted up some quality VW content.
Here is what I had on hand last night and I have a whole bunch of tabs open at home to start saving more Volkswagen content for future posts.
While I might not comment on everything right away I do read every comment and email that comes through 🙂
Classic VW stretch and poke.How long do you think the guy in the back kept staring at this while walking?X5 wheels look better here than on the X5!Nice pop from those red facesSteezyI've had this little bug saved for so longDubbers stick together.Reminds me of Samantha's car, but blue.24.95 for a fender!
It feels a little weird posting a Winter Wednesday today as it’s actually fairly mild here in the Toronto area (above zereo).
I also can’t remember if it snowed the last seven days but what the hell both of these IS300s are more than worth posting.
I can’t recall where the owner of the one on gumetal one lives but I’m told the owner of the white one lives in a part of Virginia that generally doesn’t get lots of snow.
From what I hear from my friend Colby it also snowed in Texas this year winter so I guess anythings possible.
Pretty sure I posted this car without the snow when I talked about my wheels not fitting (FYI they fit now)For a State that's not supposed to get a lot of snow they did pretty wellHopefully no salt found it's way onto these wheels
There is still a little bit of winter left so if you have some photos of your ride in the snow you want to send in just drop me an email.
On the heels of last weeks slightly unorthodox Theme Tuesday I decided to go with something a little more standard this week.
With the Evo IXs slowly starting to trickle onto Canadian streets, and the new Dodge Charger looking oddly Evo X inspired I’ve had these cars on the brain a little bit more than usual lately, which worked well as I had a decent number of them saved on my hard drive as well.
This is actually the second time I have done the evo/lancer platform but I think I manged to pull it off without any major repeats.
Interested to see what this car looks like this seasonThis cars so nice I had it saved twiceProperThese cars laugh at Canadian bumper requirements Moderate stretch, moderate poke, big fan of this lookYou've probably already seen this car alreadyDangerous duoThese cars are great at looking aggressive and functionalFull of winShortly after this photo was taken the owner drove off in a controlled mannerI need lug nuts this color that do not break the bankGettin' on itEven though this color reminds me of the Exorcist puke scene I had to post itReminds me of PunisherWell played Hipermax, well playedHammer down
Since it’s Valentines Day (and because I have this song stuck in my head) I figured it would be appropriate to post these photos of a local female who rolled damn hard in 2010.
I’ve seen this car in person a few times, once at a CSCS event, and then a couple weeks later at a BBQ in Markham, but prior to seeing these shots on JDM Rides I didn’t know of any photos that really captured just how nice this car really is.
CCW Classics + a clean body + healthy drop is always a recipe for success.
Some might say this car is nice for a HondaSome might say nice for a girl's carI just think it's damn nice.
As promised here is the February sticker give away post. The theme of this give away is characters and Seche Media along with Supermade, Sweetie Girl Racing, and Nextmod all came through with an awesome variety of stickers to give away this month.
The format is the same, comment to enter for one of the three available prize packages, the only thing different for this one is that since it’s Valentines day one of the prize packages is only available to the female readers.
I have also included where each sticker came from, and a (purchase price and link if applicable) so that if you don’t win but still want one of the stickers you can support the sponsors of this contest.
The comments for this month’s giveaway don’t have to be related to anything so you are free to say whatever you like because the winners will be determined by a random mathematical draw and not comment quality.
One entry per email address and if you are a female please use whatever name is attached to your email address so when I confirm I know you are a woman.
This give away closes Thursday February 17th 2011 at 10:00pm EST and I will announce the winners bright and early Friday February 18th 2011.
Entry now closed, check back tomorrow to see if you have won!
My friend Josh speaks Japanese and I don’t, which means on twitter (@shiftmo) he follows a number of people that I wouldn’t be able to understand. Amidst what is gibberish to me Josh found this Honda Odyssey.
Any one who has even a partial eye on the Honda Odyssey scene will tell you that here in North America we generally ignore these vans while the Japanese do them up pretty serious. This particular one, called ‘Blenda’ by it’s owner is so nice that it inspired me to put up a rare Sunday post.
A lot of Odyssey owners go crazy with the camber Hoda kept things reasonable
Bridging the language barrier (with help from Google Translate) I’ve learned that this car rides on custom static suspension and 19×9 (et-5/et0) custom painted Work Gnosis GS1 wheels with bronze anodized aluminum lips.
Long cars always look longer dumped
The body work consists of custom Brandy Wine paint and a heavy dose of Noblesse body parts. If anyone wants to help out a little bit by translating further feel free to here at the owner Hoda’s blog.
If you’re like me and can’t read Japanese (or can and are just lazy) enjoy the pics below.
Japanese roads must be heaven because all their cars are slammedThe roof of this van actually isn't just black, it looks like a moon skyColored lips like these need to come over from JDM landI was told a big reason why the Odyssey scene is bigger in Japan is because the rear doors don't slide.The Mazda 3 in the back looks like a 4x4 compared to the OdySummer needs to hurry up and get hereI'll leave off with this one
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