iM Feature: Rajan’s JDM EG6 done right

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.

iM Introduction: Memory Lane

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:

Another one at DTP 06 taken my my buddy Trevor:
Wow, I miss that car.  Maybe one day, I’ll buy another and do everything exactly the same, except with another motor for more power.  I think thats what lead me to my next vehicle, my lack of power in the Civic, which by the way ended up with a best 1/4 mile time at Race City Calgary of 16.8 on the stock SOHC 1.6L non-VTEC motor.  
Granted, I didn’t get a chance to do a bigger motor swap, but around the time that I thought about it, I fell in love again with another car.  Or I should say truck.  Working in downtown one day in summer 2006, I saw one for the first time, and I said I had to have it.  And finally on October 6, 2006, I took her home, Jen-Neen, a 2006 Toyota Tacoma X-Runner.
The night I picked her up:
The very next day, taking home ‘Best Truck/SUV” at SCC Calgary 2006 (by default since there were no other trucks there):
I told myself that I wouldn’t mess with it, but the stock look didn’t stick with me, and being who I was, aside from the wheels, and lowering, I did all the little things that added to the big picture.
Here she was in her prime in 2008:
DTP Calgary 2008:
It was around the time of these pics (2008) that the economy started taking a bad turn, and I realized that I was in a pretty bad situation paying more that I should monthly for this truck, and with the big 4L V6 (which put down a respectable 15.4 at Race City for her weight) eating so much gas, the decision was made to find something smaller and more economical.
I was kinda worried because I thought smaller would mean less power, I had gotten used to decent power with the X-Runner.  And so I started looking at smaller, more economical cars.  I didn’t like what my options are.  But then I guess it was meant to be.  My brother picked up a 2008 Subaru Impreza WRX hatchback in early 2008, but in 2009 decided that he didn’t want it any more.  Way better on gas, decent power, and cheaper payments?  How could I go wrong?  Did both of us a favor and took it over so he didn’t have to pay for the lease break, and I had a new car!  While I didn’t like the look of the new hatchback at first, it ended up growing on my pretty quickly.  I just wish it was red (can you tell what my fav car color is yet?).
Most of you have seen it already, it was featured here a few weeks ago ( http://www.illmotion.com/2010/06/im-feature-richs-rex.html ):
Thanks for taking a trip down my memory lane, hope I didn’t bore you too much.  So what does the future hold for me?  I don’t know.  All I know is that I will try my best to help out this site with pictures and articles and with the ill.motion team in general.  Look out for some interesting posts from me in the near future.
And before I forget, as the organizer of the Beyond.ca yearly supermeet, this year it is in its third year, and will be held on August 4, 2010 at Chinook Centre in Calgary between 7-10pm.  I invite you to attend to help keep the local car scene going.  More information can be found here: http://forums.beyond.ca/st/309492/-403-honda-beyond-ca-everyone-else-wednesday-august-4-2010-super-meat-round-3/
In leaving, and in the spirit of NSX week, JC is gonna kill me for this one:

iM: Crew Decals

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!

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

iM Random Snaps: Arif’s EK Gets Stiff

After having a good break from the rain Arif and I decided we would finally throw my ASR swaybar onto his car for the upcoming track day. The look on Arif’s face after a quick spin on the roads told me a something… I wasn’t getting the bar back.

Here’s a couple of random pics…

Expect some track coverage of this car in a few days!

iM Feature: Jason’s FGizzle

Finally after a long long wait, I was able to get up and do a shoot on my car while it’s still clean and accident-free. It is pretty much done now that I added the front lip so this is how it will sit all summer. I really feel that it has come a long way from previous years and I never thought I’d say it but “I’m done”.
All it really needs now are regular maintenance and squash air fresheners every few months. Hopefully I can pick up a new whip in the next year and start with a fresh new template again.
Thanks to Arif and JC for coming out and helping out with the shoot yesterday. Turned out pretty good. I think it really captured all of the angles nicely.


Wheels/Suspension
Work Meister S1 18×9 +26
Falken FK452 225/40/18
Buddy Club N+
SPC Camber bolts
Project Kics gunmetal lug nuts

Exterior
J’s Racing Type Front splitter
Mugen Type Sideskirts
HFP Rear Skirt
Spoon S-Tai Diffuser
J’s Racing GT-Wing
VIS Carbon Fiber Trunk
Nokya 3000K DRL’s
Eurolite 6000K HID’s

Interior
Nardi 330mm Deepcorn Steering wheel
NRG Quick release
HKB Steering hub
Recaro SRD’s
TWM M1 Abrams Shift knob
Civic Type R (FD2) Shift boot
TWM Short shifter

Engine
Injen CAI
Greddy Ti-C Catback

iM: jhoang x JLAW wheel swap – Part II

Part II is of my car on Jackie’s TE37’s.. I personally felt that the blue didn’t match bang on, partially because of my red seats – but they were still pretty sick to see.
Concave legendary wheels, custom candy blue, no rub – sick! Anyways.. onto the pictures


iM: jhoang x JLAW wheel swap – Part I

Since last year, Jackie and I have been talking about swapping wheels once we got everything settled and good to go. Finally this evening we swapped his 18×9.5 +22 TE37’s on my car and my 18×9 +26 Meister’s onto his car.

I’ll split this into two parts, first up is Jackie’s car on the Meisters – which I think look fucking gangster. He’s got dish, he’s got fitment and he’s dumped. The white face goes so well with everything.. and well, I’ll let the pictures do the talking.

Jackie’s setup

My setup

The outcome

Click the link to check out Jackie’s part

from the rear

Finally – Reppin’ illmotion

Revwerks Track Day

Today was Revwerks second track day down at Race City Motor Park so I decided to go check it out, grab some pictures and hang out. I got there pretty late so I could only grab a few pictures and this is also the first time I’ve shot at a track setting so most of my pictures aren’t that great. However, it was pretty fun, missed most of the action but the day had everything including killing crows, putting out fires, barricade hurdling resulting in cracked ribs and lots of “Oh crap, I broke something”.
ESS Supercharged E90 M3. What a monster.

Arif’s EK about to attack the straight.

MR2’s engine caught on fire due to a melted oil line resulting in a dropped clutch and the contents of 2 fire extinguishers being emptied.

Broken front lip.

iM: Justin’s Type-R

Sitting around shooting the shit, hanging with some other Honda heads while they did a clutch install so I snapped a couple quick pics of Justin’s new whip.

You may recall his previous car….. a stupid dumped EG Civic hatch seen here:
Justin’s slammed EG hatch

Anyone that knows Justin knew the new car was going to be dumped immediately. In fact it was ridding low before most people even realized he had the car.

Yes he completely ruined a Type-R haha…. so bring on the hate!

Pictures really do the ride height no justice. Wheels are only 15″ haha…. could easily tuck rim with 16’s. Dope!

Really liked this picture…. too bad I messed up the exposure settings and it went all blue toned. Still turned out alright.

Full set of pictures coming soon. And remember kids, if it aint a type-r then it aint a tight car!