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Extras…

August 6, 2010

Just a couple of extra shots from Sheepey’s HT shoot a couple months back. Now that the issue has hit the stands and is going to be replaced with the latest issue, I figure I’d throw these up. Kinda gives you guys an idea how it looks when they shoot these cars in a studio environment…

That’s about it for today, RPM show tomorrow in Irvine, CA so make sure and come hang out if you got the time…

Setting up for the cover shot. You can see here that the cars are rolled in and pushed instead of driven around because of all the white floors and walls…Driving things in and out would just cause a mess…This is also where other mags like Hot Rod shoot as well…

Bumper removal and what not for detail shots…

Rodrez at work…

Here you guys can get an idea of how the room actually looks and the gigantic lighting apparatus… I think this whole studio was priced somewhere near like a nice home or more…It was cool to see it because it moves around however you like it too. Shit is serious…

Post-shoot, rolling the car back out onto the trailer…

The bay…

Big ass Bullseye turbine…

Rywire harness with AEM EMS, ignition box, and custom enclosed relay box…

You can tell from the last two shots that only one side of the wheels were color-matched. At that time Sheepey was still unsure of whether or not he was gonna keep it that way so he just did one side…

That’s all for today, have a good weekend everyone…

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Super Street FF Battle 2010…An exclusive look at dyno day at Raceline…

July 31, 2010

Spent the majority of the day in Fontana for the Super Street FF Battle, things are slightly different this year in that the participants are much more evenly matched. It was a cool experience to see. Of course I can’t tell you any of the results or anything, it’s going to publication in a future issue of SS and you guys will get the full run-down of the cars and the people that participated. Today we’re gonna look at a more behind-the-scenes kind of look at the day before, which was the dyno portion of the event at Raceline in Temple City. I have some pics from the event at Fontana as well but I haven’t had a chance to look through them… In the meantime, check this out…

Reminder for those of you who are interested in checking out the final day of the event; there’s a meet today at Autoclub Speedway in Fontana and the cars will be running today as well. If you have the time, make it out there! A bunch of the heavy-hitters from Socal will be out and about checking everything out. It will be from 10am-2pm…come out to the meet!…

Raceline Civic coupe…

The front bumper of one of the best and most detailed builds EVER…

Jonathan Wong himself…

Morgan’s EK9…

Gil from Circuit Hero…

Morgan and Loi from Sportcar Motion bringing in their tires to get mounted…

Dyno results…

You have to see Gil’s Type R in person to truly appreciate the details and all the custom fabrication by ASC…

Nuts…

Will from Circuit Hero, Sean K., and Rhett…

Phil Robles is an older guy from Arizona who just loves to track his car. He built this hatch with all the right combination of J’s Racing and Chargespeed parts and it is all completely functional. This car is the shit and I love it on the Advan RGs…

Even Big Mike was appreciating it…

Ryan Der aka Airbag Club…car is fuckin’ amazing. I’ve seen it a couple times but sometimes it takes events like these where there is no one else around or no showgoers or whatever standing in your way and you can truly appreciate everything that Ryan has done to his car. I wish I could have taken more details shots of it so you guys can see but we were too busy eating and bullshitting with eachother…

Ryan’s Vertex wheel and AIM cluster…

Doin work…

Gil’s K20R sounded ridiculous…

Loi from Sportcar Motion…

The most inappropriate shirt ever at a dyno event….thanks Big Mike…

Will, Ryan Der, and Gil…

Hasport brought out this J32 swapped Civic on nitrous…

Ryan changing out his Volks to his beater track wheels….bronze Mugen MF10s…must.be.nice….

That’s it…there were definitely a couple more cars that I didn’t get because I was dumb and forgot to charge my camera battery…You guys still have a chance to see all the participants if you head out to the FF Battle today. These were just the select few that I was able to capture that I really felt stood-out from the crowd. Thanks for looking…Finally time for some much need sleep…fuckin’ exhausted….