Simon’s MR-S was looking real clean when I was leaving work and I had to snap some photos of it.
TE-37s make everything better.
Follow him on IG @kamina86!
-NGUMINH
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Wekfest LB 2016 | Video Highlight
Just another Wekfest at Queen Mary in Long Beach, CA, however, this time around this is the last one at this location. Nonetheless, they put together Southern California’s finest automotive builds together once again. Here is a video highlight from some clips Nimo capture, and I decided to quick edit together. Enjoy.
Shavi Wijegunaratne
Instagram: shaviw
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Extreme Dimensions Car Show 2016| Event Coverage
The annual Extreme Dimensions Car Show was a couple of weeks ago and the turn out was amazing. There were cars from all walks of life and they had some crazy events that were going on during the show, but we’ll get into that in a bit.
These two yellow FRS caught my eye from a far. 
Bugeye on Work XD9.
So much gloss in the paint.
Glad to be seeing more modified R32s in SoCal.
DNA Motoring’s S2000 for show.
A front end collision would suck for this Subaru. 
Wide body Mustang, so it could hit more people in crowds.
That color tho.
The Subie presence was strong at this meet.
Wow, 2nd generation IS with a 3rd gen front bumper molded on.
John’s R35 on Advan GT.
Evil looking Mustang.
Damn!! Satin black with gold accents on this S2000 looks amazing.
Low is an understatement.
From satin black to all the colors of the rainbow. 
Perfect photo opportunity for this skyline syndicate.
They were having a revving contest where the audience choose the winner. The one time revving your car at a meet was cool.
The “Fuck Likes” sticker on this clean GS.
Another 2nd gen IS with a 3rd gen bumper with excellent fitment.
Neck breaker.
Old school Mazda rolling out.
Bagged and boosted S2000.
Best LS right now in Orange County and it’s owned by Tommy from Infinite Werks.
God, I love seeing a immaculate Civic.
After a long day at the show, a musubi from Musubi Monster ended the day.
Try it, it’ll change your life.
-NGUMINH
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GMG Racing Open House | Event Coverage
GMG Racing open house is one of the best local events in Orange County, we get to see a crazy amount of super cars at this event and be in presence of cars that would probably cost two of your lifetimes to afford. The morning of the event I met up with Phat and Ashton for breakfast.
One does not belong…
The Porsche/Mazda bros. 
Ashton’s 911 is looking great going back to the grey paint and adding the PNA Design wing. 
We were waiting for the Phaze 2 caravan to come through and they brought the heat.
The roll-in was way tight just like Darren’s Porsche. 
Clean styling with this Porsche on BBS RS.
Brendan’s widebody Supra was out and about at the event. 
These guys were talking about if this car was in the Fast and Furious or not.
Roll out like a boss.
Mikey’s Amuse 370z on Volk TE-37 SL.
Mikey’s shiny 997 on Rotiforms.
Darren’s GT3 got some prime parking at the event. 
Mikey with the surprise back rub. 
Bugatti to greet you before entering the warehouse. 
The car even had it’s own security to make sure no one leans on it.
GMG Racing Audi R8 for sale. It would be a nice addition to my garage, but maybe in another life time. 
The R8 is pretty clean for a race car. 
Super cars on super cars. 
Every automotive photographer’s dreams were in this building.
Those carbon fiber wheels tho. 
This F12 is so beautiful. 
Medusa RWB.
Bugatti roll out.
Ending it with me spotting Devyn’s Itasha style Civic.
-NGUMINH
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Jimmy’s Civic & Erik’s EP3 | Video
It has been a long while since I have actually did video, and doing this video was like learning it again. Here we have Jimmy’s Honda Civic and Erik’s Honda EP3, which have nearly identical visual appearances and performance modifications. Both these cars are static (on coilovers), boosted, and on Volk Racing TE37s.
Take a look at this highlight of both fine tuned cars:
Thanks.
Shavi Wijegunaratne
Instagram: shaviw
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Our Favorites at United Royals | Car Feature
It seems like every year I attend the United Royals show it rains! Maybe, I’m bad luck but the hurricanes and tsunamis always hit Japan when I’m here in September. Other than the rough rain, the show was pretty lively with a ton of car enthusiasts still checking out the car show. Even with so many people out at the show there were still some cars that caught my attention. Here are some of my favorites at the show…
The Low n Slow Japan S14 on Work Seeker wheels looked so good wet in the rain.
I love me some aggressive body kits combined with a dark clean paint job makes an incredible looking car.
How the owner keeps it looking pristine this low static? The world will never know.
This SC430 is amazing. The fitment, the wheel selection and the stance is so well put together.
This car is on bags and that is the reason why the fitment is beyond on point and so even all around.
This car makes you want to own a SC430 even though it looks like a ton of work to make it look like this. It would be worth it in the end to have this in your garage.
The Bad Quality S2000 with custom fitted flares is a big blue of awesomeness.
This S2000 has so much custom work done you have to respect it even if wide body isn’t your thing.
Love all of the Bad Quality cars and this one is no exception.
They achieve both of these goals with this S2000.
The Level One S14 is an instant classic with the Vertex kit and Volk TE-37 SL.
This is probably the farthest I would ever go with a S14 and that’s because there’s so little more you can do to this car to make it perfect because it already is.
There are so many ways to have great fitment, but having your fender tucked right in between the rim is the most gangster way.
The white and gold combo on the Work Meister is so classic and WORKS perfectly on this TSX.
This RX-8 is on our radar just because it’s so damn ridiculous. Wide body, wide wheels and extreme camber will make it hard to ignore this car.
Another mind boggling car that we don’t understand how it even moves on the streets.
Look how wide the rear wheel is!
Spirit Rei on a S13 is all I have to say. This body kit makes the car and with this wheel combination it doesn’t get better than this.
That static rear fitment with the silver face and bronze lip Work Meister is so awesome.
Wish there were more Spirit Rei cars here in the states. Someone make it happen!
Here are some notable cars that were in the parking lot that I wanted to show.
Shout out to the Dropper Crew for rocking Royal Origin and HOODRATstuff shirts and shout out to United Royals for throwing a great event and for the hospitality!
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The Big Day | Enjoy Sin
The big day was here, all the planning we’ve been doing for the past three months has led to this day. Even if the event wasn’t going to be successful, we were just happy to reunite with our friends in Vegas. It’s been a long time since those days we use to take turns on who visited who each weekend and that was the honeymoon stage of our friendship. Even though the honeymoon phase is over, we still have mad love for each other.
We spent most of the morning getting over our hangovers and trying to get a quick power nap before the meet. That is why we like our car meets late in the afternoon. Check out the crew in all black everything, Jeff didn’t get the memo.
The Lowballers posted up in front of HNRS store.
Miguel brought out the eye sore of a car his minty wide body M35.
Vinh and his new bae Sara laughing about their Starbucks drinks.
Lance brought out his newly acquired NSX on TE37s.
Sparkle caught me trying out the Lowballer’s drift cart.
Sara and Hayle excited to meet and interview everybody.
Aron, the newest member of Royal Origin. He’s always been a nice guy and let’s us get it in whenever we want, so it was a no brainer when adding him.
Sara living in the moment.
This guy went cruised through our meet on hydraulics, it looked pretty cool jumping up and down.
Fuku Burger sliding through with some sliders for everyone at the meet.
Hayle trying to pose majestically with the wind blowing in her hair.
Paolo looking for parking with his slammed GS.
Thank you to everyone who came through HNRS and copped some HOODRATstuff.
DJTRADEMARQ spinning on the 1s and 2s.
Barely any parking for anyone, so we started to fill up the lanes with cars. #HOODRATstuff
Gerald worked tirelessly to get the rootbeerdc2 ready for the meet. He even made a vow that he won’t drink any Hennessy if it didn’t have the HOODRATstuff label on it. Gerald is the mother fucking man.
Slopps is always in Vegas like he has a DJ residency at a club, so we weren’t surprised to see he took the trip from SOCAL to the meet.
Throughout the meet, we were on the prowl to interview people about the meet and other random things.
Hayle interviewing Patrick from Autolifers. Thank you Patrick for covering our meet! You can check out his coverage here..
http://www.autolifers.com/event-royal-origin-enjoysin/
The Lowballers posted in the back of HNRS, love that they always come through to our meets and showing us love! Thanks guys!
Nimo working the camera and getting us some good coverage.
Peep game homie, check out that Sony Ericsson. I think Sean was trying to get connected to an operator for a phone call.
DJ Koshi providing the music for the people outdoors.
It was time for the big raffle, where we were raffling away prizes from our sponsors and everyone got a photo with their two favorite WCWs, Baeyle and Baera.
The crowd anxiously waiting for their numbers to be called.
Lucky kid! Jon isn’t impressed.
Getting rowdy for prizes.
Christian got a box!
Friends, family and Sean making a phone call.
A lot of thought in this photo.
The lesbians of the weekend.
This time of the year is always the time where I stress the most and have the craziest anxiety attacks. This year however has been the least stressed for me with so much help this year, this meet went smoothly without me having to stress too much. Thank you to Kevin and HNRS for planning this collab, Shavi for working everything, VU with the coverage and giving us amazing IG videos, Nimo for taking care of us and giving us fun moments, Aron for all of the help, I notice all the small things you do for us and I’m truly grateful for it. Hayle and Sara for being our spokes models for the event, Jay and LV Racing for help with promotion and getting us a food truck, the Lowballers for always supporting our meets, JDM CHEMICALS, AVANT GARDE WHEELS, ILOVERACING, AWSTICKERS, LEXON, AIR RUNNER SYSTEMS, KYOEI, 714 TIRES for sponsoring the event, Becky for reassuring me when I did have a small anxiety attack, everyone in Royal Origin and their girlfriends who made this trip the best time of my life and most importantly everyone who supported us and came to the meet. You guys are the reason why HNRS LV will be carrying our line in their store now. Thank you, I can’t wait to show you what’s next.
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Masaki’s USDM Inspired Nissan S13
After KDAY C4 show, we pulled Masaki’s S13 to the side and did a little photo shoot to get some more detailed shots of his car.
We met Masaki in the States back in 2012 when he came to visit. It’s great that we can finally see his car that we’ve been drooling over online for so many years.
These Autostrada Modena were rebuilt in the United States by SteebSpecd. That’s some serious dedication by Masaki to make it an authentic USDM style wheel.
Masaki kept the lines on his car clean as possible converting his car from the pig nose front end to the Silvia front end.
Masaki has owned this car for 10+ years and has kept it extremely clean, also even painting the car himself.
He’s even rocking a California license plate!
Keeping it simple is always best.
Crazy how he drove this low for four hours to get to this show.
Wheel porn.
Reppin’ all the homies.
The whale pose inspired by Pogifresh.
Thanks Masaki for letting us shoot your car and giving us a ride back to the station!
– NGU ASS
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RO in Japan | Nagoya Exciting Car Show Parking Lot Spottings
Whenever I saw online photo coverage of an event in Japan, there are always cool cars in the parking lot. After spending a couple of hours inside of Port Messe Dome, we ventured out to the parking lot to see if we can find anything special.
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The parking lot did not disappoint, there were cars out here that should have been inside the show. Check out this Supra on TE37s with 326 Power extended lug nuts.
Chaser drift cars stuntin’ in the front row of the parking lot.
Crazy 180sx with a wild body kit.
Aero for days.
This rootbeer Aristo was something else as well.
You would rarely see a big body car like this Aristo done up like this in the United States. Static low with a drift set up interior and boosted.
and then the rear is insane with all of those exhaust pipes.
S15 built for time attack.
R32s were so common in this parking lot. It was like seeing a Camry in the States.
Cool seeing Supras in Japan, but they weren’t my cup of tea.
AE86s were spotted many times as well in this parking lot.
A Levin coupe on some Work Equips 01.
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This is apparently a CRV with a GTR front end. Japan is so crazy!
Crazy how R32s are just basic cars in Japan, where in America we go ape shit when we see one in the streets.
I was pretty excited that I got to see the K’s BPA Benz. I love the way this car was built and was going to modify my IS250 to something like this.
Mercedes Perfection.
There was also an anime convention next to the show so that explained these cars…
Every single Legacy that I encountered over here in Japan was built so correct. It inspired me to want to build my brother’s legacy.
LB 350Z.
Bagged Verossa.
Thanks again for checking out our coverage of the Nagoya Exciting car show. We hope to bring more crazy car coverage from Japan in the future.
-NGU ASS
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Formula Drift Irwindale 2014
Formula Drift Irwindale is the most exciting car show that you’ll ever get to show your car at just because it’s the last event for the Formula Drift season. All of the FD drivers go all out and risk everything to place on the podium at the end of the night. Car crashes and slammed cars what more could you ask for?
We got there early on Friday to set up some booth stuff and check out the practice session.
For some reason during practice the only photos that came out decent were photos of the STR S14. Maybe my camera sensor likes the green livery?
Damn, Hankook tires create a ton of smoke.
Ryan Tuerck’s FRS.
Matt Field’s S13.
Ark Peformance Genesis.
Daigo Saito is still my favorite drifter.
The next morning was the big day, we had early morning car show roll in and it was packed with slammed cars from all over.
Clean S13 on Cosmis Racing Wheels.
Floss Design Porsche, you’re going to be seeing tons of photos of this car.
Ashton’s 911 just recently wrapped in a matte white.
Jay’s new livery on his Miata.
Another car that was recently wrapped is David’s Z4 in a gloss white.
Looks pretty damn clean.
This first generation Lexus GS300 is ridiculous.. Wide wheels, fitment on point and slammed to the ground = perfection.
That tuck….
Jamie’s Impreza wagon.
Casey rocking a Royal Origin Sun Set sticker.
The internet’s FRS.
I haven’t seen Kentaro’s Civic in a while.
Kentaro’s girlfrind Nicole’s Genesis. When your girlfriend has a cooler car than you..
Royal Flush SC400 Vertex Wide Body.
Derek’s RX-8 that you always see on this site.
Matt and Thao from Street Faction rolling up in the famous S13.
Coolest cars at the event.
This guy has the coolest shirt ever.
Skittles.
Samurai Nimo working the event for three different companies.
Palmer and Thao getting shade from the wing of this Lotus.
Erica Law.
Brittany Paige.
I don’t know..
My favorite models.
Umbrella girl of the year.
Boyfriend material x Umbrella girl x Haylebaby x Asics.
If there was a reason to go to SP Engineering booth it would be to go see Rory.
Vu with that photo bomb.
This reminds me of a Filipino drama ad.
Much better.
Heard SP Engineering needed these poles lubed up.
Finally a decent photo of Hayle without her signature face or a drink in her hand.
Model hunters.
Nimo making the video coverage of FD at FD.
Sleeping or contemplating?
The video guys of RO.
Back on the track for some behind the scenes coverage of the pits.
Matt Field’s crew getting the car prepped for the next round.
Ryan Tuerck just cooling down his engine.
Favorite cars in FD.
Cars getting wrecked left and right.
That wall of smoke..
Frederick Asabo being interviewed I was hoping he would win the whole series.
The vendor cars this year were actually pretty awesome this year.
Animal Style FC.
Hayle back at it with her signature face and drinking.
Vertex kitted S13 on Weds LXZs at the Vertex USA booth.
The sun was setting so I thought it would be a good idea to take some photos of the car show.
AIMGAIN FRS.
Sean’s G35.
I need a CRX in my life.
Boogie Santos doing what he wants since whenever he was born.
Super Kawaii Miatas.
This Forester on M Technica wheels is so good.
Another Forester on CCW LM-5T.
Time for a photo whoring of all of the Royal Origin members who showed their cars..
Kevin just recently bagged his S2000, looks pretty gangster.
Air Runner brought out some of the cleanest VIP cars at the show. We’re going to be doing a meet together some time in November, look out for that it should be a good time.
STREET FACTION.
So much photo shop potential…
Hayle and Vickie on the down low lovers.
Shavi, Justin and Rory.
SP Engineering GTR.
Justin x Nimo.
Well, that wraps up our coverage of Formula Drift Irwindale. Now we have to wait 6 months until Formula Drift Long Beach… As always there are more photos in the gallery.
– NGU ASS
