3rd Annual Honda/Acura Meet

This last Sunday (Sept.19,2010) Calgary and area had it’s 3rd Annual Honda/Acura Meet. Unfortunately the weather was against the group and it was cold and wet the entire day. Regardless there was a large group that was brave enough to come out and hang around.

Hopefully, with winter nearing in on Calgary, everyone can get together a few more times and give this impressive season a final good-bye before we nestle away from the snow and cold.

Now on to the pictures…








The car everyone so anxiously waited for in the rain:

iM Feature: Darren’s Mugen DC5 – Extra Snaps

Tagged along last night on the shoot, and took a few pics. Still learning how to work with different types of light, and lack there of. The light disappeared pretty quickly, so my pics aren’t as good as Jason, but I figured I’d put a few up anyways.

More after the jump…




And a final shot of Jason gettin the goods, even though it was dark and wet out.

iM Feature: Darren’s Mugen DC5

Ever since last year I’ve spotted this RSX/Integra rolling around here and there and I’ve always drooled over how nicely put together it is and how clean it looked. The thing I loved most was the wing. At one point, I wanted an RSX to create this exact look.

Fast forward to a year later and I get the opportunity to shoot this clean queen. Since last year, it’s been equipped with Rota Grids in 17×9.5 +30 wrapped with 235/40/17 yokohama s-drives. with that concave face making the stance of the car super mean. The all around mugen look including the aggressive wing makes it hard not to stare at.


With most shoots, comes some big risks. Several times during this shoot, we encountered some sick locations but in order to get to them required swerving, maneuvering, and crawling over huge potholes and mud terrain. And several of those times, Darren’s whip ended up taking some hits but not without some good pictures – so kudos to Darren for taking it where we needed it to get the shots you see.

Darren also added to the detail by having Mugen pedals, Mugen lugnuts, Mugen shiftknob and a Mugen tower bar. To help with the go parts, a Hondata reflash and an Injen CAI tops it off.

The final rolling shot of the night

iM Feature: Function vs Form – Part 1

Being slammed is the latest trend in the import tuner world, however, cars with a slammed stance tend to be impractical, especially on the roads we have in Calgary. Tuners have to choose between the sick look of a slammed ride and have trouble with their car scraping everywhere or settle for a less aggressive stance but be more practical.
We have here 2 cars in which their owners chose either function or form. On one side, we have Josh Sivadas’s lowered white Integra Type-R with Volk CE28n’s and on the other side we have Reggie Mah’s slammed Phoenix Yellow with Sportmax rims and tons of negative camber. One has no problem making it up the tiny ramp to get into this parking lot where we shot, the other had considerable trouble. However, both of these cars have some of the best parts available, ranging from Mugen to ARC. In parts two and three, we will take a more indepth look at each car, so stay tuned!

Dutch Japfest Coverage

Last weekend was the biggest dutch car event regarding japanese cars.
Japfest or JAF for short.

It was a long day but my crew had a cool place and just enough space to park all the cars. The event is a mixture of 3 things. At first you have all the dutch japanese car club standing at the paddock area. Second best we have the “Toyo Tyres Shootout” which is basicly the 1/4 mile sprint and as best we our own dutch Time Attack series.

Since they first started in 2007, the line-up just got better and better and more people are into the whole tracktime thing.

Just to give you a small example of the day. Have a look at the following video by RPMonline.

Further more i would like to show you my on board video i shot with a ContourHD cam.
Its 17 minutes of track with my DC2. Since it was my first time on this track, i really took it slow and just had fun.

I’ll post the full video from RPMonline when it is ready, so that you guys have a complete impression of the day.

iM @ Final STRD Track Day – Sept 6,…

Had the pleasure of attending the final track day for STRD on a decent holiday Monday.  A lot of us were out there snapping pics, so I’ll keep mine to a minimum.  I’m sure the others will post up their shots soon.  A big thank you to my best friend Aubrey for letting me borrow her camera, and pretty much solidifying the fact that I need an updated camera, and to Prashant for helping me with some optimal settings.

Heres a link to more pics on my flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aldrichevangelista/sets/72157624896216008/

A few more after the jump!

Enjoy!

iM Random Snaps: Group Shoot

words//jc.tenchavez
photos//prashant.topiwala

Last Saturday a few of us from the crew went out and took some random snaps of our whips. This shoot almost didn’t happen (Thanks Punit) but with the patience of the peeps who came out we were able to get some pretty dope shots as the sun was ready to fade for the day.

Shout out to Justin and Jackie T. for coming along with us.

More pics after the jump!

The Group

Ryan’s EP3

Justin’s Type-R

Punit’s Integra

Jackie’s Integra

Corey’s Civic

JC’s XRS

Prashant’s GTI

Car Porn: Dimer’s NSX

Since Jason posted pictures of Dimer’s red NSX twice now, I cannot let you guys miss out on the trailer of the red NSX.

The owner is shooting a small movie with his Canon 7D.

So here is a taste of things to come..

iM Random Snaps: Simple and Clean FD2

Some eye candy from photographer Steven Han down in BC. A nice change in content from all the gt-wings and flush wheels #nohate.
Great wheels, nice accents, modern location.. works for me.