WTF Friday: DIY Disasters

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Mar 26, 2010

I believe all car enthusiasts should attempt some level of DIY on their vehicles however one should take the time to research their project and make sure that it something that they can handle without supervision.

By no means should anyone half ass their DIY job as bad as these people…

wtfbatt — I guess if you really need one fog light and have a motorcycle tire hanging around...

wtfdynamatt — I guess this would reduce trunk rattle?

wtfbattery2 — Wow just, wow, office supplies meet the garage

wtfwire — Not sure how anyone could assume this is a good idea, common sense is not common

wtfcailipers — Local caliper paint fail of epic proportions

Site Updates

To all of the bloggers I contacted earlier this month I am going to be working on “that” article this weekend so no you didn’t send me your information in vain 🙂

In addition to writing this article I will be also working on a mini feature for Monday so that’s something to look forward too as well.

I’m also going to be making steps towards launching a big cartel store this weekend as my new batch of stickers has arrived and I optimistically anticipate the demand for them will be more than I can handle just through the gmail account.

Finally site traffic has hit another milestone all by itself with no real additional promotion by me so that’s pretty rad.

Thanks again for everyone who checks this site daily, weekly, monthly, or even yearly keeps me going.

Flashback Friday

Local e30 wheel fitment guru Jay (Mystikal) is selling his 1994 Dakar Yellow m3 which he says is on stock suspension (I know shocked me too) so I figured I would throw it back to when I made a post about his Trevors now sold e30.

According to Jay the 95s sat lower and all he had to do was remove spring pads to get this stance

Check out the blast from the past to: “GTA BMW Love” by clicking here or the photo and check out Jays Dakar Yellow e36 M3 sale thread here.

See y’all next week though I might do another Random Dopeness/Sunday Swag this Sunday if time allows….

Civic EK + BBS RM = Good

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Mar 25, 2010

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While not new to the scene by any means I like this car, and and I like the trend of putting low offset wheels on clean civics.

May the ‘Fast and the Furious’ style of civic Modding rest in peace.

10-12-08-531 — Next to no body mods, just clean paint, clean stance, clean wheels

10-12-08-534 — The gold LCA's are a nice toUCH

Drift season has started in Ontario

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Mar 24, 2010

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An organized, safe, drift session took place just this past weekend along side the driving clinic Sweetie Girl Racing was hosting at Cayuga Motor sports park last Sunday and Static Motion Films, aka Santiago Gomez, aka the same guy behind these amazing photos was able to put together a video of all the fun.

As it turns out while I initially thought that the drifters just showed up to this event and threw down, Anna from Sweetie Girl Racing, along side a number of other dedicated car enthusiasts in Toronto actually planned this event and are actually working towards having things like this happen more often which is always good.

Shout out to drifter Chris for giving me the heads up on this video by posting it on max and Static Motion Films for putting it together.

K Sold is puttin in work

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Mar 24, 2010

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Last night I got to see my friend, and contributing photographer, K.Sold aka Keven Soldo perform some of his stand up comedy routine last night at a local bar. He slayed and good times were had by all.

When I got home I took a look at some photos he had taken of his friend Matt’s 2004 WRX, in it’s last days of winter mode, on the Toronto Subaru Club. Mild mannered employee by day, photographer by evening, comedian at night Keven is a triple threat!

This car is sitting on STI struts and RCE yellows and has the power to back up it’s aggressive look.

Matt1 — Pretty sure Keven popped this locations virginity

Matt3 — I've gotta pick up a set of Hella Supertones, my stock horn sucks

Matt4 — We would all be fortunate if our winter modes look this good

Matt is part of the small, but growing Subaru crew called KTC (Killing The Civics/KrispyTimmesCrew) so be sure to check them out.

Theme Tuesdays: E30 M3s FTW

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Mar 23, 2010

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If there is one thing that’s universal between basically everyone in the automotive community it’s that e30s kick ass, and e30 m3s even more so.

I did an e30 Theme Tuesday and now its the e30 m3’s time to shine. Tourings next?

e30m32 — Another shot of the same car, love the adjustable wing extension

e30m35 — Nice choice of LM color on this ride

e30m36 — Boxy and curvy at the same time, these lines are classic

e30m38 — This m3 borrowed a set of style 5s

e30m39 — CF hood is a stark contrast but I don't mind it

e30m318 — Another cf hood, this one matches the wheels

e30m311v10 — This e30 is v10 powered, sick

e30m317 — Not a factory color, but still sick, color matching ftw

e30m322 — I don't like the kidneys (center of the grill) but I love the flat caps

e30m319 — Epic fitment, epic height, epic shot

e30m3112 — I think the driver is making vroom noises with his mouth...

e30m314 — The hairpin in the distance looks like a lot of fun

Can’t get enough e30 goodness? Check out this article on jalopnik about a few crazy barn find e30 m3s and this one about a guy who entered a $500 318 (with s14 swap) into a WRC event and came in third.

These cars can’t be stopped, I will own another.

Doogee does it again

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Mar 22, 2010

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Long time readers of Stance Is Everything might remember a post awhile back of a local Black E36 slammed on style 5’s titled “This Is How It’s Done“.

In that post I mentioned that the car would appear here again and Doogee came back hard this season after spending the winter polishing his style 5s and tweaking a few other exterior bits.

The changes this year are subtle, Bosch headlights, the return of amber taillights, and the aforementioned polishing of the epic fitting style 5s. Work was done, and it was done well.

doogee5 — So glad warm weather is coming back

doogee3 — Amber tails replace last years clears

doogee4 — This is Doogees sig on max, it kills me

Once again e36 owners I hope you are taking notes, because this is beauty.

WTF Friday: One hell of a ride

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Mar 19, 2010

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I saw this video on maxbimmer.com and I can safely say that it’s not a ride that I would want to go one, although it looks like if someone was eventually able to flag the truck driver down that the occupants in the car would be ok.

The video in question:

There are two schools of thought on what has happened here on maxbimmer:

The owner of the car cut off the truck driver while traveling in his blind spot causing the truck to essentially perform a pit maneuver on the small car which moved the car from one blind spot to another. Since it’s raining its possible that the driver doesn’t notice to much resistance and that the noise isn’t incredibly loud.This all seems hard to believe and yet it is occurring in the video so…
The second thought is that truck driver has had a really bad day and enough of people cutting him off over the years and has therefore lost his “cot dang” mind.

I’m not sure where one would find the true answer but I am leaning towards number 1. Either way it’s unbelievable.

Site Updates

The stickers are now on their way to me so I can show you guys the other two designs that are more for the auto-x/race crowd.

conehunter — The next 2 auto-x/track stickers I had yet to reveal

dididothat — Urkel influence is strong in this one

This one I showed before — This one I posted before

And the one that will probably be a top seller

In non sticker related news I put in some work on the fanpage I nearly completely forgot I created. It’s not done yet but getting there so feel free to check out Stance Is Everything on facebook and become a fan.

Flashback Friday

Since I just saw this car and got to meet it’s owner at Performance World I figured it would be a good time to do a Flashback Friday do the ‘What Is Fonixx?’ post

Anyway my lip is back on, the weather is nice, and I am going to enjoy the weekend… until it rains.

Event Coverage: Performance World Part 2 – Imports

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Mar 18, 2010

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Here is part two of the Performance World coverage, I had meant to post this yesterday but the great weather (18 degrees!) meant that I worked on my car after work as oppose to hiding from the cold.

Today’s coverage is mostly of the import rooms of the show which were really hard to shoot being absurdly dark and cramped for some reason, anyway, here we go.

When reviewing my pictures I was actually surprised that I took so few pictures of random stuff, normally at these shows I take a lot more.

I am however not surprised I didn’t take many model pics. I wasn’t really feelin’ creep mode that day, blame Do You Come With The Car for my change of heart perhaps?

brakesrims — While this is a big brake kit it's not THAT big

greenrally — This was cool, an ethanol powered Sub rally car

stdstandard — You know may want to change your company name when...

streetoutlawsmodel — This MR2 had a way with the ladies

The Infamous Project

Chris Savard put in a lot of hours getting all three of his rides ready for The Infamous Project and the hard work really paid off as all of the cars made it to the show complete and looking great.

infamouslightning — These Oz's look so big in person I guess 23"s will do that

infamousmustang — Some dude was running his finger up and down the paint when I showed up saying look it smudges... weird

Bagged and Juiced

The amount of cars on dynamic suspension this year was actually somewhat low.

commongrounds10 — I still like Phantom grills...

lowtow — If I ever see this truck tow anything I will be surprised

BMW & Mini

The BMW turn out at this show was uncharacteristically small. Other than Chris Savards BMW and the e46 below I can only recall seeing one other e36 at the show, I wonder why that was…

superchargedmini — This Supercharged oldschool mini was rad

This e46 had me on a fence, I liked some things

novents — but these fake vents kinda bugged me

TM3/Garage 16

Garage16.ca and TorontoMazda3.ca had a few cars at the show this weekend. I had thought about putting my car in the show with these guys but opted not too due to the amount of detailing I would have had to squeeze in the week before the show and my general level of procrastination. Good to see that these guys are not like me cars looked great.

pogi — TM3 represent, Pogi did quite a few things to his ride over winter

blankets3 — Blankets3 told me he wouldn't lower his ride till I beat it into him

Scions

Don’t quote me on this but I don’t believe that Scions have been officially sold in Canada as of yet, and if the have the appearance of modified ones has been quite scarce.

Performance World had two in attendence, one first gen and a Kicker sponsored (they also sponsored the show) second generation.

scion1 — Not sure who built this one but they had lots of time and money invested

scion — Lots goin on in here, nice fiberglass work

kickescion — This newer kicker Scion was done to the 9s

kickerscion_super — Good to see a little performance made it's way in via super charger

Nissans

There were a few scattered Nissans at the show, here are some of the ones I liked.

gtrfront — Nice rR35, something around it kept blowing smoke sorta weird

kitted240 — Never seen this kit on a 240 before

Sic Ryde

Performance World was my chance to finally figure out What exactly Fonixx is/was. Keven and I got a chance to chat with the man who is Sic Ryde (literally that’s his name) and he explained to us what it is, kind of, really it’s still building towards it’s final huurah.

Sic says that Fonixx is a philosophy that is going to change the world and Sic Ryde is the person who is bringing Fonixx to the world….

For now it’s still quite the mystery, nice cars though, expect the unexpected.

sicrydecorrado — This wide body Corrado attracted a lot of attention

sicrydelexus — Sic Ryde Lexus is once again sporting a new set of wheels

Hondas

As usual the Honda numbers at this show were quite impressive, here are a few.

acuraworkswap — The famous Worked 905 cover car

worked905turbo — Worked 905 loves there fast cars

fukenricencivc — This one was pretty clean too

jdmteg — JDM Integra with what looks like a wings west kit

s2000civic — Pretty unassuming little Civic

s2000civicunderhood — With what appeared to be an f20 shoved under the hood backwards?!

Well that’s all of the coverage I have, hope you enjoyed it and if you missed it part one of the Performance World Coverage is here.

Winter Wednesdays: Is winter over?

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Mar 17, 2010

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I heard on the radio last week that some official organization declared winter in Ontario over. I’m not sure if its really over but its been double digits all week and that makes me smile.

Despite being covered in snow this Miata also appears to be smiling.

While I hope that our measurable snow fall has ended I am going to keep my winters on until the first week of April. My lip however is going on tonight.

I also rode BMX outdoors last night and it was awesome.

Event Coverage: Performance World Part 1 – Muscle & Rods

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Mar 16, 2010

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This weekend I got a chance to check out the Performance World show here in Toronto, according to advertising this is the largest car show in Canada.

While I am not sure if that is true I will say that I was fairly impressed at the diversity of the cars in attendance. I took a lot of photos and as usual I am going to pay respect to the OG’s and have the muscle cars and hot rods go first.