My brother sent me a link to this car today from Teamblink.
The turbo 20v makes 270hp at 17psi.
It’s on 15×8 zero offset with 195/50/15.

The Capital D season is over for the year as you may have noticed by the mayhem at the end of September and if you didn’t, you haven’t been following Speed Hero. We forgive you, this time.

Over the off season there are a number of practice days, like today, a free for all of noobs and veterans trying to hone their skills are find a reason for an engine swap or new platform all together.

I rode along with Warren in his eightsex since my ride ended up on the ferry back to van on three cylinders. The turn out was impressive, somewhere between 13 and 16 at any given time.

As always, the numbers were dominated by S13’s and 86’s but this time around we had Jeff in his newly 5 speeded Cressy.

Finishing the swap through the night he was ready for a sleep deprived romp around the track.

Warren’s 86 sounded strong and angry on the track. He and Jeff started off strong for two guys who’ve never tracked their cars.

Now you’ll have to trust me when I say there is a rainbow in the next picture, I assume the rainbow was a vampire and doesn’t show up in photographs. Phil followed the rainbow, hoping for a pot of gold.

Instead he got a concrete sammich.

The weather was erratic all day going from sun and cloud to rain, to heavier rain it made for a chilly day. It also meant the track was nice and slick for the folks that are new to the whole drift experience. It also meant disaster for a couple of cars.

As always, I’m bored with typing so with this one last point I’m just going to dump what’s left of todays photos. There were two s13’s from the mainland. Their tandem runs were some of the best of the day, solid, massive slides.

The guy up there /\/\/\/\ and the guy down there \/\/\/\/

They probably have names. I’m sure I should find out. Luckily they came to me. Fantastic job Jason Debruyn and Mike Turpin.

Pctars…

I almost forgot, in one of the last runs of the evening Chris Scremin managed to finally slay the pink unicorn. It’s unconfirmed at this time if he was trying to drink the blood to gain immortality and is plotting the death of a young wizard.

One last shout out and thanks to the folks at Capital Drift, the practices are just as amazing as the competition. This is grassroots drifting at it’s finest.

… when cars and their adverts were simply awesome.

Oh, wait….

If you’re going to have a small Toyota meet, you might as well do it in the middle of a hurricane. The weather was intense, huge winds and damn cold but with Paul down from Calgary, we had to roll out.

Warren was out in his 86, White, stripped and now rolling on some new 14 x 7 diamonds. Jeff was doing his best impression of a hovercraft, floating just barely off the pavement.

His cressy is soon to be rocking a 5-spd, watch out for him on the track.

Chris looked daper in his Tercel…ahem…Starlet, considering the ridiculous care and attention to detail that went into his Rolla build, I expect big things from this car. Lastly, Brett showed up in an e70 that makes mine look like a Veyron pulled from the bottom of a marsh. Well, more so than usual.

Paul was playing practicality with the pickup truck he drove from Alberta, not exciting at all with the exception of a)Paul was in it b) Free clutch is free. Thanks Paul.

We finally ran for shelter in the nearest beer house, then the second nearest, then we made new plans and tried to head on our way. Of course no old school Toyota meet would be complete without car troubles.

Finally we all settled in to a nice warm beer? Enjoyed a nice cold restaurant? There was beer and food.

Jeff and Warren aren’t pictured since they were closest to me and I’m a lazy photgrapher.

Chris is intrigued by Paul’s theories and would like to subscribe to his newsletter.

Warren lays down a profound truth and Paul’s face promptly melts.

Jeff loves drift saloons, Chris is amused.

It was a great, lazy, cold night and a good time was had by most. Well, by me anyway. Now, just because people love huge wordy posts that don’t really say anything. Let’s continue.

I’m just kidding. Here’s a gratuitous shot of my car, the little bit of JDMness is to hide the lack of progress. “Now when people look they’ll say “that guy must be legit. I’m working on it, I swear.

I dont know how this vid didnt make it in here already, sick in car footage!

Yukes ae86 i believe.

Not particularly a big meet, but a couple of cool cars.

I had seen this video a long time ago, but never really got it at the time. Who’d a thunk back in ‘98 Americans were drifting hard in their own crew!

Let’s face it, all us lads n’ ladies like to do the things we want, even if we can’t afford them. For many people video games are an escape from life, but for me, they have always been a preview of the future. Since my days of Sega Genesis I have used video games as a portal into my interests, ones where I was not old or baller enough to fulfill.

Although games like Road Rash, Stunts, Harley Davidson: road to Sturges, Test Drive: The Duel, Hard Drivin’, and others were my initial relms of reality, Gran Turismo 1 was my first spark of addiction. I remember clearly my 900hp Mitsubishi GTO Twin Turbo, from what my young teenage self considered to be the best car in the game. I was not brand loyal at the time, but I figured out that if you bought a 2.0GT Supra for the first few races, then rather than upgrading, sold it for a GTO, you could basically keep upgrading and take most of the game down with one car. I also remember teaching friends how to take corners, by using “straight braking” rather than slamming into the walls.

GT2 rolled around, and although I did spend time in Nascar for Dos (merely for the rediculous crashes that game had) I had started to like cars for the lifestyles I viewed around them, the culture they brewed and the stories behind them. GT2’s information section became a common place for my bookworm nose, long before Wikipedia graced my eyes, GT2 was there to give me the behind the scenes scoop.

From that, I began spending my time modifying cars in a very underrated and under appreciated game called NIRA. Sure it was drag racing, but what other game do you know of that not only had real physics, but a full engine dyno setup to not only check how much horsepower you have, but, to build engines from scratch with your own cam lobe designs, compression settings, multiple different fuel types, how ever many cylinders you wanted. Seriously, the chassis setup options were endless. Plus, there was rare Mazda B2200 and ‘98 VW bug game add ons that are even more over looked.

NIRA developed my itch to customize cars to my mechanical and visual liking. So I moved up, now focusing on some corners I jammed my face into a copy of “Street Legal”. It was a Hungarian game, as far as I know, that focused on driving around and beating locals on a wide open city. However, not only did it have real time damage effects, where the car would actually bend around a pole, and no two crashes were the same, but what drew me in, was the ability to completely dismantle the car and replace parts individually. Almost like an advanced version of Gear Head Garage mixed with the streets of sim city.

I began to model cars in 3D, since Street Legal allowed you to replace parts individually, it also allowed you to design and overwrite the files for those parts individually so you could put your own parts in the game! Want a Carbon fiber hood, sure! Spend 7 hours in 3D studio max and Photoshop modeling and texturing an object, only to spend another 5 hours test fitting it and making changes till it looked good. The effort was very much worth it, unlike all these new NFS junk games, I was the only person in the world with that part on my car, and it looked exactly how I wanted it to.

Obviously, SL1 lead to a sequel: Street Legal Redline Racing. An updated version of the previous game, but more refined. The graphics still sucked, the handling was garbage, but there was more room to customize and perfect it! SLRR opened me up even further, and near the end of SL1 and the Start of SL2, I began my interest in Japanese cars and drifting. My only claim to fame of SL1 & 2 was I was the first person to release a RHD car to the public for download. Funny that some of my parts I released publically still circulate even years later.

After I grew tired of not enjoying driving my cars, and wanting to actually drift, my mind turned to two games. Live For Speed and Mercedes Benz World Racing. Live For Speed offered me something that no other game had before, a true driving experience. I spent whole chunks of weeks at a time lost in online demo races, tweaking my setup. I was there for the days of adjustable track width and steering lock. Those items are now gone, but much of my interest of customizing and racing on public roads was filled by MBWR. A demo came into my hands from a Fellow named Mike Bush, the famed car builder for the Grand Theft Auto IV. Mike too is an ae86 enthusiast and is the driving force behind the ‘Futo’ in GTA4. Interesting story, Mike mentioned to me that the original file name was “dorifuto”, as car modelers have to name their projects something, and by the time of release it had been shortened to “Futo” which apparently had nothing to do with “tofu”.

MBWR allowed me to build my zany, wacky cars, and compete against people online. I spent much time in it with close friends from other online games. People I found to have the same love of cars as I do, sliding around the mountains together. Australia track #7 at about 53% I think? Is one of my favorite sections.

From here I continued building weird and wacky cars, whether or not they were for games, it was an outlet for my ideas and concepts.

Sadly one day my computer died, I had become so entangled in my own desire and lust for building and fantasizing about cars in digital mediums that I killed my ability to work a normal job. I was and still am so focused on designing and building silly ideas that some:

Started becoming reality.

Just a change of pace, some drift that isn’t in Japan or as I usually push, Canada. This comes out of Cyprus thanks to Yanihluigi

Pink Rolla twins fighting it out makes me tingle…that’s right, I’m tingling.

Thank you Greece and thank you Yanihluigi.

Make sure you check out all his vids, tell him Speed Hero sent you.

Earl’s truck is the most badass thing ever, seriously. It seems he and I draw inspiration from the same sources at times, since he’s got his shit done and flashing cash all over the breast coast, he’s become a hero of mine for being an anti-hero. Streeto Maximum and all that jazz.

Another inspiration of mine is Dmac’s awesome lightweight corolla. Seriously, 1600lbs is more ballin’ than anyone can imagine. The ability to utilize the little horsepower out of a near stock motor by making the car lighter makes that thing a reliable rocket!

And for you lazy assholes. Inspiration #1

I know this is old but it’s always going to be a classic. This is what made Hibino stand out. Unseen in D1, Jumping Drift! His aggressive driving style has translated into his attitude, by pretending to be bad-ass in front of camera. A true legend!

It’s amazing how the level of drifting has increased so much over the years, now-a-days you can pretty much
discard your run if you haven’t initiated before Minami’s straight.

For more Jumping Drift check out this JDM Allstar video at Wembley:

It turns out that moving pictar technology has improved since the days of the zoetrope. That being said, head on over the Speed Hero’s Youtube home to check out those rare moments when we remember to take the lens cap off. Who knows, we may even learn to edit video at some point.

There are only a couple vids at this point including this long lost gem from the magical summer of 2009.

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