Is the Exceed Mintia Civic actually fast? Well, I guess we’d have to actually take it to the track and do a shakedown to see if everything works first.


Is the Exceed Mintia Civic actually fast? Well, I guess we’d have to actually take it to the track and do a shakedown to see if everything works first.

Our surprise guest from Japan made it off the boat just in time…

Yasu’s here, a 24-hour trip to NYC, and I think my interior is done?…

If we were in the 56K-era, this post would take probably 4 days to completely load…

Wekfest San Jose was a whole movie…literally…

Despite it’s familiar name, the Japan version of this event is not what you think—it’s so much MORE…

The Exceed EG6 race car build continues but will it come to a halt due to outside factors? Also, is that the Rywire ITR?!!

If Japan is a movie this one must be a slow-burn triology…

It really does feel like car things are happening non-stop now that we’re in the heart of the summer season. Not long after my trip to Seattle, it was time to prep for the San Jose stop of the Wekfest tour—which also happens to be the biggest. Yasu decided to make the trip for this one as well since we were set to debut the first two Exceed Japan V2 front lips in North America at the show. He finished up the new parts and literally had them overnighted to California so we would have the time to get them painted and installed. We carefully selected two of the nicest Civics in the West to debut the new Exceed lip and had a nice booth display right up front at the show! Before the show however, we had some prep work to do and then it was off to San Jose!…

Now that I’m back in the USA, it’s time for me to catch-up on all the stuff that’s been happening here at home. The moment I walked through the doors of Battlecraft, Kristian was already hard at work cutting-up our GR86 in preparation for the Voltex widebody kit. If all goes well, that project should be ready to debut by end of summer. A few days later, I re-packed my suitcase and hopped on a flight to Seattle, Washington for the annual Wekfest event. It was an incredibly busy weekend so I didn’t get much filming done, though I did catch a good portion of the early roll-in. When I got home from my trip to the PNW, I was already re-united with Yasu since he decided to make the trip to California for the upcoming Wekfest San Jose. He showed-up with the JDM headlights off of his FL5 Civic Type R and swapped them immediately since he’d been dying to get his hands on some USDM ones. Not long after, it was time to pay a visit to our friends at APEX’i since they had some special for my new Type R…