iM Feature
Last week we had the pleasure of doing a photoshoot on a few of the sickest cars that Calgary has to offer. Some of you may remember a few months back when Ryan’s MR2 was posted up right before the season closed in ’09. Well, it’s back and with new shoes and we were able to get some sick shots of his car.
Let’s call this part one.Check it out!
Civic
Speedtech hosted their first track day of the year today, unfortunately I wasn’t able to participate this time around so it gave me plenty of time to snap pics. Sorry I missed lots (most) cars but the battery died pretty early, opps. Perhaps some of the other guys that were shooting have some more pics.
Some more of Jason’s Civic, which BTW looks so good on the track.
Getting closer and closer to the wall haha.
I could snap pics of this car all day long….
Next up we have Gang-star-Dee’s Spoon S2000. By far the best sounding car on the track today. 
Dal’s K20 ITR…. which pulled on most other cars hard!
Clean STI
Black AP2 rolling on some really nice Advan’s
J’s S2000, I think this was the comtech supercharged one (too many S2’s on the track to keep track of ha!)
Jamie’s S2000 was up on jacks for most of the day…. he fried his pads before I even arrived haha. Anyways he ended up changing them up in the pits and got back out there before the end of the day. You will be seeing more of this car soon.
Really fast 135i…. like really fast!
EK Civic hatch
8th gen Civic coupe
And one last shot of us contracting west nile just to bring you coverage haha.
Brides
How do you make a solid Honda platform look sick, without going over the top and ending up with a huge bowl of rice? Simple: just take a look at Rajan’s homemade recipe.
This unique recipe starts off with a layer of custom gold paint, and a touch of black Honda Black pearl paint on the roof. Next, add a Seibon Carbon hood, Spoon Sports spoiler, SiR front lip, and Password:JDM thin side moldings. Afterward, Raj suggests you delete the front and rear wipers. While your at it, might as well smoke the front, rear and side marker lights, and shave the antenna.
For that special touch, Raj also threw in some Tein Super Street Coilovers, an ITR front and rear sway bar, SPC camber kit, Skunk2 lower control arms, Beaks rear lower tiebar, and a Password:JDM 3 point front strut bar and rear strut bar.
For a full flavor marinade; a 98 Spec Type R transmission, Pssword:JDM carbon intake, Skunk2 intake manifold and fuel rail, Buddy Club racing spec headers, Blox cat delete, Apex’i N1 exhaust, NGK Plugs and a Mizu Aluminum Radiator and slim fan are a must. Raj also says that mixing in a carbon solenoid cover and hood dampers, a set of Spoon Sports rad hoses, a Greddy oil cap, a candy red powder coated ITR valve cover, J’s Racing carbon spark plug cover and Cusco oil catch can can also add some subtle tastes.
Chef’s special suggestion for the health wise? Pealing the A/C out can save on those nasty calories.
After settling, you can spice up the interior with some Bride Digo seats, custom Bride doorcards, armrest and floor mats. A Mugen shift knob, ITR shiftboot and Personal Grinta steering wheel with Works Bell hub and quick release can also add that extra little kick.
You can begin the final preparations with a set of Rotora drilled and slotted rotors and Rotora brake lines, Axxis pads and Project Mu brake fluid. Cover these with a set of 16×7 +45 Buddy Club P1 wheels wrapped in 205/45RZ16’s (Falken FK451 in the back, Toyo T1R Proxies in the front). Last but not least, throw a set of Project Kic’s 10mm spacers on front and you are ready to serve.
For those who wish to enjoy this recipe a little more, it can be found on display at the illmotion booth during Driven Edmonton on Saturday August 7th.
Mr.Detail
Decided since it was so nice out (ie: stupid hot/sunny haha) to attend the Mr.Detail Show n’ Shine this past weekend with some friends. The event was really well organized and they had free Sammy’s Pizza (yum). There were lots of domestic vehicles out which was a little different then most of the events we usually attend here in Calgary.
Paul’s EK
Arif’s EK
Vee-Dub
There was very little shelter from the sun
Low rider truck
Frickin’ slammed haha.
Lambo
Some really nice airbrush work
Corrola
The decal man himself…. Terrence.
Pimped out rat-rod
The group
Divina’s Evo X
Corey
Europe
To continue on the NSX week..
Last weekend was the 20th Anniversary of the Honda NSX.
The meet was held during the performance days at the famous Nurburgring.
Special part was a meeting of European based NSXs. A total of 58 cars made it out there.
You must understand the special appearance of the car since at normal meetings, there are a max 15 cars together.
It all started at Saturday morning when most of the NSXs and more Hondas joined up and drove off to the ring. Must be an awesome thing to drive there with a lot of those cars.
Sunday morning everybody showed up at the GP Strecke.
Everybody parked up together and then it was time for photo’s and a loot of catching up between the owners.
Since I know you guys also like the ladies, so at this point I’ll just shut up and let you enjoy the rest of the pictures.
Also a cool example of how a Ringracer should look like.
Thank you Dimer, once more for the shots.
Civic
Hi everyone!
My name is Aldrich and I’ve been invited to contribute to the site. I run my own blog as well (http://aldrichevangelista.blogspot.com), but I will try my best to post quality stuff and promise not to bore you. I’ve decided to make this a full introduction with my trip down memory lane, so you know where I’m coming from and why I will post what I will.
I’ve been in this Calgary car scene for about 14 years now (before some of the illMotion members were legally driving), and I’ve seen a lot of changes in it. Shops and teams come and go, the scene having its ups and downs. I’ve known the illMotion guys for quite a while now, and although I sometimes don’t agree with everything that they do, I can’t argue with what they are trying to accomplish with the local car scene by trying to revive it, and will do my best to help them every step of the way.
If you’re reading this post, and/or frequent this site, we have a common passion… cars. I’ve had three cars in my lifetime so far, and for some odd reason (and most of you can relate me to), I can’t leave any of them alone. I have to modify something. It started with my 96 Civic coupe. Bought new in 1996 by my parents, it was meant as a commuter car for my dad, with some occasional driving by me since I had just turned 16, and gotten my license. But that idea didn’t last very long. I pretty much was into cars at 14, and know I couldn’t just let something I drove look like every one elses car. A few years later, my parents ended up with another car, and I was free to do whatever I wanted with the Civic. The car changed every year (mainly the wheels, I think I’ve gone through 10 sets), but I wasn’t truly happy with her until 10 years later. Here is my first love Jen-Elle in her prime (photos from 2006):
DTP Calgary 2006 with Mercedes Terrell:
After some editing in Photoshop:
Civic
Spotted this on beyond.ca in the Honda Picture Thread. I’m not sure who the owner is, but if he’s got our sticker then he must frequent the site! If you are reading this, post more pics of your car in the comments and we can put those up! Car looks gangster!
STi
I am loving the 2011 Subaru Impreza WRX STi Sedan!!! However I think I’m loving this commercial a little more LOL!
Here’s a few more ads from the campaign:
240SX
So yesterday evening was my first time attending the Drift Practices that is held every other Wednesday down at Race City. You guys might remember Chad Gibson’s coverage of some of the drifting from a few weeks back. I thought it’d be a good idea to head down there and see what it was all about.
Enough of the babble.. I got quite a few pics. I apologize in advance to anybody who was out last night that didn’t get a shot. I did have shots of everybody, but some just didn’t turn out. I’ll get you guys next time.
It was my first time to shoot drifting so I’m not gonna lie – I did have some struggles finding the right spots and such. It’s different because it’s an entirely new set of faces. While I am personally into the show and grip scene, it’s a nice change to see these guys pushing their cars and not really caring.
Congratulations to Steve Poyntz for taking 1st in the little pylon tapping competition!
Thanks to Eric and Aaron that let me sit shotgun for some ride alongs – Now I want to drift and great job to everybody that was out there! Looking forward to shooting some more practices this summer.
CR-Z
I didn’t really want to post up more CRZ content (I’m sure some readers are sick of all the CRZ stuff) but after I saw these pics online I just had to.
