Otomotif

some new snaps

sleeeeeeeepy 


srE30 engine bay looking pretty


my camera is on the other side of canada
bummer

i had a guy pm me on jdmr today,
"i wanna know more about union"

so i just started typing, and this is what i ended up with. 
figured i'd post it up on here, because it rang really true with me, 
especially tonight.

Hey man.

We've been around for about 2 years now... I basically just started the whole thing to keep building the local drift scene we have. Because we are organized as a club, it offers us the chance to keep costs low, and still allow us to be on the forefront of street car fabrication. We like building our own cars, and when we get the chance to build it for someone else, sweet. I've got a full-time fabricator and a full time mechanic on staff. We do everything from motor swaps to roll cages to multi link arms. My guys are extremely talented, and there is no way that anything cool would ever happen without them.

As for past work... a lot of it never got documented, just because we were doing it for the love of doing it. Funny how having an outlet (the blog) makes you want to take pictures of everything!

But the bare-bones of it all is...

If people stopped giving us money to do the things we do, we'd still be doing it. We might not have as nice of a shop, or that new tube bender.... but we'd still be driving, and we'd still be building cars.

Love of the game!



SrE30 test fitting panels.
almost looks like a car!




subframe notched for maximum ground clearance


blast


my man native just got a new whip
we've got some ideas for this. 
i'm excited to see where it goes


you got interior glow like this?


also added some danger to the kill death machine
its real blood


and some loud
that blood is real too


e.t. painted his tranny white
...because it wasn't white before




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2010 Car Launches

Written by News Team | January 14 2010
Confirmed Launches: Team Date Location Mercedes GP: January 25th - Stuttgart Ferrari: January 28th - Maranello McLaren: January 29th - UK Renault: January 31st - Valencia, Spain Sauber: January 31st - Valencia, Spain Lotus: February 17th - Jerez, Spain* _*Mercedes GP*_ will launch its 2010 contender at the Mercedes-Benz museum in Stuttgart on January 25th, according to reports in the German press. _*Ferrari*_ will launch the successor to the F60 later this month at Maranello, it has been announced. The unveiling of the Scuderia's 2010 F1 car will take place on January 28, four days prior to testing commencing at Valencia in Spain. *_McLaren_* have said: “We will be launching our 2010 car, the MP4-25, on the morning of Friday 29th January in the UK.” *_Renault _*will launch its 2010 car on the day before it is tested for the first time at Valencia. The unveiling will take place on the afternoon of Sunday 31 January, by which time a teammate for Robert Kubica will have been decided. *_Sauber _*will launch its 2010 car to the media in Valencia on January 31. *_Lotus_* F1 team will officially launch its new Formula 1 car on 12th February, team boss Tony Fernandes has revealed.Writing on his Twitter account on Thursday, Fernandes said the team will turn on its car's engine for the first time on 5th February, before holding an official launch event a week later.The team is then scheduled to test the car for the first time at Jerez in Spain from February 17. *_USF1_* have said they wont be at the 1st Pre-season tests, instead they are launching at the Barber Motorsport Park in Alabama the circuit was nominated by the FIA for them.

Confirmed Launches:

Team Date Location

Mercedes GP: January 25th - Stuttgart
Ferrari: January 28th - Maranello
McLaren: January 29th - UK
Renault: January 31st - Valencia, Spain
Sauber: January 31st - Valencia, Spain
Lotus: February 17th - Jerez, Spain*

Mercedes GP will launch its 2010 contender at the Mercedes-Benz museum in Stuttgart on January 25th, according to reports in the German press.

Ferrari will launch the successor to the F60 later this month at Maranello, it has been announced. The unveiling of the Scuderia's 2010 F1 car will take place on January 28, four days prior to testing commencing at Valencia in Spain.

McLaren have said: “We will be launching our 2010 car, the MP4-25, on the morning of Friday 29th January in the UK.”

Renault will launch its 2010 car on the day before it is tested for the first time at Valencia. The unveiling will take place on the afternoon of Sunday 31 January, by which time a teammate for Robert Kubica will have been decided.

Sauber will launch its 2010 car to the media in Valencia on January 31.

Lotus F1 team will officially launch its new Formula 1 car on 12th February, team boss Tony Fernandes has revealed.Writing on his Twitter account on Thursday, Fernandes said the team will turn on its car's engine for the first time on 5th February, before holding an official launch event a week later.The team is then scheduled to test the car for the first time at Jerez in Spain from February 17.

USF1 have said they wont be at the 1st Pre-season tests, instead they are launching at the Barber Motorsport Park in Alabama the circuit was nominated by the FIA for them.

Renault Clio S


Renault Clio S – Click above for high-res image gallery

Every so often, Renault impresses and teases us with the launch of a new hot hatch. Impresses because they're widely rated as some of the most dynamically competent micro-machines on the road today. Teases because, well...they don't offer them in North America. So all we can do is admire from abroad such offerings as the Twingo 133 Cup, Clio 200 and Megane R26.R, to name just a few.

The range is set to expand both upwards (with the likes of the new Gordini line-up) and downwards (with the adoption of the GT range), but every once in a while, Renault fakes us out with something that when it comes down to it, really only looks the part. The World Series editions were one recent example, and now the French automaker has launched the Clio S for the British market.

Sure, the Clio S looks the part. It's got 16-inch wheels, a spoiler on the trailing edge of its roof, a front lip spoiler below the grille and racing stripes galore, all done up in contrasting white. But the Clio S lacks the go to back up the show. Engines are limited to 75- and 100-horsepower fours and an 86-hp diesel. Not exactly Renaultsport figures, but then neither are their prices, ranging from £11,209 to £13,458 all-in (that's around $18k-22k USD, not accounting for the UK market's inflated pricing). So for the moment, we can rest easy this time around, neither impressed nor enticed. Details in the release after the jump and photos in the gallery below.


2011 Kia Sportage - European Registry

2011 Kia Sportage Rendering
2011 Kia Sportage renderings – Click above for high-res image gallery

The European Registry must be a bigger thorn in the side of automakers than the likes of Brenda Priddy and her minions. After all, the new-vehicle images the Registry keeps in its database are devoid of camouflage, and the latest to show its face (and rear, and roof, and flanks) appears to be the 2011 Kia Sportage.

Based on these images, the new Sportage looks to be a big step up from the friendly but aged current model. Underneath slick new sheetmetal that's in keeping with Kia's current family design themes, the Sportage will likely share much with the just-unveiled Hyundai Tucson. No word yet on when we'll see the trucklet's official unveiling, but given that Kia's usually good for a significant reveal at the New York Auto Show, we'll wager that at the very least, we'll see the Sportage's North American debut in the Javits Center in late March/early April. Stay tuned.


Mitsubishi's been having a rough time of it lately here in the United States

MItsubishi Triton

Mitsubishi's been having a rough time of it lately here in the United States. Last year, sales fell 44.8 percent. Ouch. Even worse, Mitsu's lone U.S. manufacturing plant in Normal, Illinois is way under capacity. How far under? Well, the Normal plant's website lists its capacity at 135,000 vehicles per year. Only thing is, back when that plant was a joint Chrysler/Mitsubishi venture it could pop out 240,000 cars per year. Last year, Normal made just 18,501 vehicles.

As you might imagine, Mitsubishi's uncertain as to whether the Normal plant will remain open. One solution might be to introduce and build their Triton pickup truck in the U.S.. America's been sorely lacking in the small pickup market for the last 15 years or so, and the Triton would be a welcome player to the segment.

Only thing is, because of the notorious chicken tax, Mitsubishi would need to build about 50,000 to 60,000 Tritons a year at the Normal plant to make the endeavor worthwhile. Last year's 44.8 percent drop in business meant that Mitsubishi only sold 53,986 cars and trucks last year. Anyone else sense a problem? Even if Mitsubishi's sales rebound over the 100,000 unit mark, it's doubtful that 50 to 60 percent of that total would be a small pickup truck, especially as Mitsubishi's mid-size truck, the Raider, was quietly discontinued last year.
New drift-specific forum!

BANG BANG BANG

more than anything, canada needs to foster its drifting community.
we've got the talent, we've got the resources, now is the time to start something bigger.
sign up, and lets make something better.

also, street drift always.

okay okay! 
post time!
life is beautiful.

srE30 update:
swapped headlights for projectors


fmic piping 99.9% done


50% of an UNION/RPM-spec stainless 3in exhaust
highflow cat
hard mount with tranny brace




custom tranny mount


Doc Awes made some headway


also making its (late) triumphant return...




vert tubs are done and ready for sand/primer/paint




lots more coming!!!

Tommy Kaira Nissan GT-R R35 Ebbrezza-R Premieres at Tokyo city


Not surprisingly, the Tokyo Auto Salon 2010 was packed with tuning proposals for Nissan's scorching hot GT-R R35. Among the new offerings that made their debut at Japan's equivalent of the SEMA Show is Tommy Kaira's long awaited Ebbrezza-R sports package with styling and performance upgrades.

On the outside, there's a new aero kit trimmed in carbon fiber that includes a redesigned front bumper with a lip spoiler, side skirts, rear wheel arch add-ons, a rear wing and a beefier rear diffuser along with an underspoiler.

Tommy Kaira's package also includes a new set of 20-inch multispoke alloy wheel wrapped in Pirelli P-Zero tires size 255/40 ZR20 up front and 285/35 ZR20 at the back.

Edition Specials Mercedes-Benz Launches SL Night Edition and SLK Grand

Mercedes-Benz Launches SL Night Edition and SLK Grand
Starting with the SL Night Edition, Merc's flagship auto auto is accomplished in an absolute designo magno night atramentous acrylic and appearance 19-inch AMG five-spoke light-alloy auto in a two-tone, high-gloss finish, silver-painted advanced anchor callipers with the Mercedes-Benz logo and blurred headlamps/tail lights.
Inside, the SL's berth is dressed in atramentous nappa covering and animated chrome trim while the seats additionally accept arrow-shaped seams and silver-colored allegory features. Finally, the sports council wheel, about-face batten and roof lining are in black.

Moving assimilate the SLK Grand Edition, the bunched auto is acclaimed on the alfresco by the designo graphite acrylic finish, 18-inch light-alloy auto with bristles amateur spokes, silver-coloured fins on the beanie and blurred headlamps






Minor Updates for 2010 from Bravo Hatch

Fiat has appear capacity on its 2010 Bravo bear that has accustomed a few accessory changes actuality and there for the archetypal year. On the outside, the Bravo's high and lower advanced grilles accept been re-trimmed and are now offered either in atramentous or chrome accomplishment while the headlamps on all models are smoked.

Furthermore, the mirrors and aperture handles are accomplished in the blush as the anatomy on all trim levels while Fiat added two new colors to the palette (a altered adumbration of gray and a pear finish).

A new set of accessible alternative bales and the active designs and colors for the bench and aperture console upholstery complete the account of changes.