So my first post up is going to be my own car haha. I finally put together a decent set of pictures of my car with my new wheels. Although this will probably be my last set of pictures with these wheels as i will be selling them before the summer ends if anyone is interested let me know.
While we were out shooting Aubrey’s car, Brad tagged along and I decided to shoot his car as well. I’ve never shot it, so it’s nice to have something new to shoot. He’s got a new setup for 2010, so look forward to more shoots of his EM1 this summer 😀
Until next time…
So, maybe I made the title slightly over dramatic. But allow me to explain. I remember reading some Japanese Tuner Magazine when I was just getting into wanting to mod cars. And I saw this wheel. I had NO idea what it was but i knew that one day I would have to have it.
The wheel…The Volk TE37. I mean what a classic wheel…six spoke design, great for brake cooling, looks amazing on any car, super light, forged, and baller…haha…That, my friends was the dream. Now comes the nightmare. No, I haven’t curbed them, or damaged them…But, I will let the pictures do the talking….
With Driven 2010 fast approaching the ill.motion crew are busy and hard at work to make sure our cars are ready for the show. Now Jason being the hater that he is, shot my car earlier today and well commented on the lack of my wiping down and cleaning my wheels before the shoot. Anyhow, that is what I decided to do this evening and folks…if you have just eaten come back and look at this post later…haha…
Only because my words do not even begin to express the nastiness that has built up on my wheels, from both regular driving, track days, my general laziness AND a broken axle boot that I discovered today…FML…haha…onto the pictures…
After!
After months and months of waiting, I finally get my hands on the Canon 135L f2.0 – one of my most sought after lenses and I was itching to go for a shoot. Call up Arif and out we go to one of the sickest locations ever – no cars, no traffic, no people… just straight new road all around.
Well enough of the chatter, here are the first pics to come from my baby 😀
Check that bokeh – for you photography nerds 😛 haha
Had to get some ass shots.. sorry for the dirty car.
As always, you can visit my photostream for the high res photos
Jason Hoang’s Photostream
The rain yesterday was a pretty nice change from the snow that we’ve been having. Ironic because we just went through the snowfall warning of 10-20cm overnight. Calgary weather is so messed up.
Anyways, I decided to do a quick rain shoot with any lots that were nearby because I got kind of bored.
On another note, Driven is only 2 weeks away!! oh em gee
No shots of the front cause it’s not ready yet 😀 haha
Remember the spoon crane? Here’s the followup
Spent the whole day at Speedtech on Saturday getting Arif’s Spoon diffuser installed on his EK (AKA Hollie). After lots of “ohhs” and “ahhs” and cringing from cutting so much of the diffuser off, it was complete. There aren’t too many EK’s running the Spoon S-tai diffuser, and in order for that to happen, you gotta be willing to push the envelope.
With the right idea and the right people, that’s how it’s done. Paul at STRD is infamous at being able to fab up just about anything when we need it.
Check the process!
Marking the cuts
Oh god…
Real gangstas dun play
Mock up
All done!
“What are those? 16×3 +85?”
Don’t have the completely finished pics cause I had to leave before they got done. We’ll do a shoot soon!
So Prashant and I went to get his car out of storage. My wheels have been mounted and ready to go. So since the wheel’s where at his house, I thought we should try throw them onto his civic and see how they sit. Ill let the picture’s explain the kind of trouble im in. The car was sitting on top of the wheel’s and we couldn’t get it all the way down.
Time to get a fender roller and get to work on the Integra.
Enjoy.
Had this shot I never posted up from a couple weeks back…. while the car was still all together.
Anyways, most of the interior is out, still have to pull the rest of the rear interior panels. Taking my time as these damn plastic clips and plugs are frustrating as hell! haha.
Why is the interior all out you might ask….. well I always said once the car didn’t have to be driven every day that I’d throw a cage in it. I kinda chickened out and didn’t want to deal with door bars and no glove box, etc etc so it’s only a half 4 point cage or roll bar but I’m still happy with it.
It’s off getting powder coated right now so the rest of the install should happen in the next week or two.
A random shot of my car at the warehouse while Punit was doing his swap. I really liked how the angle and everything turned out in this shot.. even though the car is dirty.
For those that are wondering, the wing is not on because I’m getting the carbon trunk re-tapped. Hopefully it’ll be on soon! But with this sucky ass weather, I’m not in a big hurry.
Prashant sent some pics over that he took when we were on our way to Peter’s. The shots turned out TOO sick. All the shots that Prashant has taken of my car has always ended up being dope. Hopefully he’ll post up the rest of the rolling shots of the others soon.
I think we need to get into some videography with his HD mode…
