WWhat’s folks… Here is the 4th and final installment of The Chronicles’ 2012 Eibach Honda Meet Coverage. I’m going to try my best to get through all of the photos today and not keep you guys waiting until the next week. Normally, this would be relatively easy for me to do if I was sitting in front of my regular computer but I am currently sitting on the balcony of the Honua Kai Resort & Spa in Maui, Hawaii. It’s about 9pm here (12am Pacific Standard Time) and I finally had a chance to sit down and go over some emails. By the time you see this it’ll be well past that time though as I will be uploading this update late in the afternoon Friday. The internet isn’t the best but it’s probably better than I’ve yet to experience at any other hotel/resort I’ve been to. I’m working on a lap top that isn’t even mine but again, I want to be able to get this update out so it’s not backlogged until next week or the late weekend. You may be asking yourself why I’m fucking with the site while I’m in a beautiful place like Hawaii on vacation but that shows my dedication to my craft. That and well, it’s our first night here and everybody is relaxing so why not crank out an update right? Hawaii is amazing and I plan to have a wonderful time here watching my boy DPK David marry his long time love Jaclyn. These past two months have just been so hectic and crazy that I could really use a vacation like this right about now… I know a lot of the times you guys think we have this perfect life and how we do all this great stuff but I promise you, it’s just a very condensed version of what we do. Many of the other days you don’t see, we are slaving away and working our asses off to have a better life…
Anyways, today will conclude my coverage of Eibach 2012. Photos will include some cars but also a lot of other random stuff that I was able to get since the event slowed down by the late afternoon. A majority of people had left by then and the remaining people were just sticking around to hang out with their friends. Vendors were cleaning up and most of us were just chillin’ at the booth…
Despite the madness that surrounded the morning, I felt that it was a very good event. It’s hard to compare this with the ones of year’s past because this was a completely new experience. I think no matter what, many will always prefer the old Eibach events in their original home in Corona, CA. That’s where it all began and that’s where many developed their greatest memories of the Eibach Honda Meets. Things change over time though and inevitably, we all have to grow. This event outgrew the Eibach facility by leaps and bounds and the Irwindale version just showed how big this event has gotten over the years. Where, when, and if the Eibach Honda Meet will happen again remains a question, but you can rest assured that the staff is working hard to improve it from year’s past and taking steps to make things easier for everyone…
My hope is that all of you enjoyed the event as much as we did. Many of us helped and we worked our asses off in the morning. Even though it was stressful and trying, we all still had a great time and would do it again without hesitation. Now, enjoy these last set of photos and I look forward to seeing all of you again at the next Eibach Honda Meet, wherever it will take place…
Here are links to the previous three possts if you missed any of it. I encourage you to take a look at them if you haven’t. There were some great cars this year that you may have not seen before…
Eibach Honda Meet 2012…Part 1…
Eibach Honda Meet 2012…Part 2…
Eibach Honda Meet 2012…Part 3…
Let’s get this going, there’s a beautiful beach in front of me and I wanna get out there and get sunburnt with my clothes on…
Will’s K20-swapped Civic from Circuit Hero was on hand to represent the brand at their booth…
Snapped another shot of this coupe since I found it interesting and don’t get to see it very often… Larger Version (1400×933)
OldManJames’ S2000 with Downforce fenders, Spoon front bumper and Volk CE28s… Larger Version (1400×933)
Andrew’s turbo EK hatchback on BBS wheels…
EM1 coupe on Mugen NR wheels…
It’s rare to see Epsilon mesh wheels these days and even more rare to see them on Hondas. This set looks like it may have been refinished and re-lipped but I don’t know how I feel about seeing them on a DC2 chassis…
Big Mike’s Prelude of course, on black Volk SE37K…. Larger Version (1400×933)
May’s new dessert business venture, Love is Sweet Desserts, was out at Eibach 2012 with a booth and had cupcakes on sale for everyone that was hungry… So far things have been going good for her and she’s picked-up a lot of business…. I’m proud of her and hope that she continues moving forward with it because I think she’s on to a good thing…
A couple of the cupcakes that she made that were eventually sold or eaten by us…
Here’s May and Dough playing with baby Maddox…
DPK David was also helping out in the morning with roll-in but we eventually were able to bring his car in and parked next to The Chronicles booth… Larger Version (1400×933)
Baby Maddox eventually tapped out and had to nap for a bit…
One more shot of the RCG Mugen 4-door Civic and the All-In EP3…
A couple more of the nutty CT supercharged J-swapped Civic from Hasport…
Megan Belet modeling for STANCE wheels… Larger Version (1400×933)
Ep3 on Enkei RPF1s… I can’t stand it when people put Honda caps on their wheels…just sayin’ haha…good looking EP though…
Slammed EF sedan on Work Ewing mesh wheels…I believe this is the same EF that participated in the “So You Think You Can STANCE” event and was just taking chunks of pavement out of the ground because the owner was just down to fuck his undercarriage up…Funny because Tony from It’s JDM Yo!! brought up the idea of doing something like that in Japan to Takeshi and Takeshi responded with “We can’t do that in Japan because people in Japan care about their cars”…haha…
EP3 with digital camo-wrap and MB Battle wheels… Larger Version (1400×933)
A group of Ruckus enthusiasts heading out of Eibach 2012…
Her cup runneth over…
I’m sure you guys wouldn’t be upset if I put up another photo of Megan Belet…Here she is holding up a photo of me sitting on the toilet… Larger Version (1400×933)
Another shot of the slammed EF wagon on Hayashi Street copies…
Captured this shot of Phaze2 Salem and Dougie but caught Mauricio at a bad time making an awkward face so I fixed it to try to salvage this photo…
Matte black NSX on bronze Volk RE30s at the Toyo Tires booth…
Also reppin’ Toyo Tires at their booth was Jay Borcena’s VIP-style Acura TL on VIP Modular wheels…
The Sportcar Motion DC2R time attack car was another car that was posted at the Toyo Tires booth…
One more shot of the DC2 that I detailed in part 1 of our coverage…
Really liked Harvey’s DB Integra so I snapped one more shot of his Mugen-themed engine bay…
Madara’s S2000 that was recently featured in Honda Tuning magazine… Larger Version (1400×933)
Quick snap of Arnel’s 4-door Civic…
Leon’s CR-X with EF8 SiR front bumper, fender flares and Spoon SW388s…
Drag-spec Civic coupe from RC’s Garage, displaying for Full Race…
Raul’s legit JDM EG4 Civic VTi from Checkerd Sports with Chargespeed front fenders, 949Racing 6UL wheels, and K20 swap…
KR-Z from Eibach Springs…another car that you will be seeing at the upcoming Super Street FF Battle 4 competition…
Stanced-out S2000 from Royal Flush on aggressive Work VS-XX wheels and some random custom carbon side thing that’s kinda wavy…
All-In Fab’s K-turbo Civic coupe…
Downsyndrome Frank…
Frank’s engine bay on his new Integra project…
Brian from Hasport chatting with Big Mike…
Rywire Ryan…
Takeshi from Type_K burnt after two straight weeks in the blazing sun and no sun screen…
Rodrez and his son Maddox…
Rodrez getting interviewed for Nacho Speed TV on his thoughts on Eibach and how the day went…
Raul from Checkerd Sports packing up his booth…
Reza’s DC2 with a Mugen Gen. 1 wing and Regas…
NSX on WEDSport TC105N…
Proof that Eibach 2012 was an overwhelming success…
Everything was for sale at the NWP and Chronicles booth, at one point we even tried to sell Maddox but people kept asking for a t-shirt if they bought the baby and that’s just plain ridiculous…
Tetsuya Yamaguchi, the man behind USDM Jam in Japan…
Tanner from Eibach Springs…
A couple shots of the Sportcar Motion Integra Type R with the version 2 custom front splitter set-up since they destroyed the first one at Global Time Attack a couple months ago…
The Bandits line-up minus a couple of key members…
DeviousCTR’s Civic coupe on Volk RE30s…
Not really sure what to make of this but I had to take a photo of it to show you guys… I’ll let you guys come up with your own opinions on it…
Sportcar Motion’s line-up at Eibach consisted of some of the nicer FD2-converted FA5 Civics in Socal…
Close-up of Donut’s custom air ducts in his DC2 bumper as well as his Special Projects front splitter…
Race-ready Civic hatchback with Enkei RPF1…
The last of whatever was left of May’s Red Velvet Cupcakes…
Limited edition Volk RE30 Club Sport wheels on the Evasive Voltex S2000…
One more shot of DPK Jared’s S2000 while we were tearing down the booths at the end of the day… Larger Version (1400×933)
Big Steve’s LS400 wasn’t a Honda but it was there that day because Steve stopped by to hang out as well as help out at the Autofashion USA booth… Weird because we never get to see him drive this thing anywhere but he ends up showing up in it at a all-Honda event…
DPK Jared and Jen sitting down on the floor and taking a break. These two were very important in getting everything situated in the morning with parking and all that good stuff…
Tetsuya getting a closer look at Cooper’s Integra bay…
OldManJames taking his time to over explain things to Takeshi and Tetsuya…Tetsuya didn’t give a shit because he doesn’t understand English…AT ALL…
Ryan taking his time to over explain some shit to Tony…and Tony doesn’t understand any English…AT ALL…
Closing out this 4-part series of Eibach 2012 coverage with a shot of one of Evasive Motorsports’ customer-owned S2000 rocking Voltex’s newest street aero and Volk RE30 Club Sport wheels….
That’s all folks…time for me to go stare at sunburnt old ladies in bikinis on the sandy shores of Hawai’i…
Excellent Article. Love the coverage and in depth writing. You on Maui? You should roll thru my shop Paradise Supermart in Kahului, ask for Ken. I hope you guys have a great time on the island. Keep up the good work.
Cool man, if I have time I’ll try to stop by and say what’s up.
love the coverage as always sir! are you gonna be on oahu?
i can set up a meet with the s2ki members for a meet. lmk sir!
What’s up man, I doubt I’ll make it to Oahu but thanks for the offer!
Whats good Joey, another impressive coverage of Eibach and as always entertaining dialogue to got with the photos. I noticed that you are on Maui and see for DPK David wedding, anyways I am chef the chef of Star Noodle here in Lahaina, and just want to say that we have a bunch of Honda heads that work here and that StickyDilJoe is part of our normal everyday conversations, and we’ve been fans for years! Well ii hope that’ll you have the chance to dine at our restaurant, you won’t be disappointed(check yelp, haha)! and hope that Maui treats you well on your stay. Aloha! Mahalol
I just might take you up on that offer!