Royal Origin

Tag: IS250

  • Vegas Prep | Enjoy Sin

    Vegas Prep | Enjoy Sin

    It’s insane how much sleep you lose when preparing your car for an event, whether it’s a track day or just a car meet. Making your car up to your expectations takes quite a bit of time and effort. Most of the crew had to get their car ready for our annual Royal Origin meet in Las Vegas. Not only did they have to get the car ready to floss, but they had to get it ready for a four hour trek into the desert.

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    Ryo, one of the crazier guys in our group had to get his fenders pulled and space our his rear wheels, so it doesn’t rub against the frame anymore.

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    Crazy, how he’s planning to drive this car to Vegas.

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    Meanwhile, I was just playing around putting my Work CR-Kai’s on my SC. Doesn’t look that bad in my opinion.

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    Air master Vinh was trying to put together his air suspension for his STI.

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    The pieces to a very complicated puzzle.

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    Vinh’s garage buddy, Bryan’s M5 on DPE wheels.

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    Since the SC got some wheels now, I decided to put the Meisters back on my IS for the meet.

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    Damn, I miss driving around like a boss.

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    Speaking of bosses, Kevin from Boss Company came by to hang out with his LS400.

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    Sadly, this car will be sold soon..

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    Dem camber specs tho..

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    The master teaching the student.

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    Decided to practice light painting again and well it didn’t come out that great. It was most likely because it wasn’t dark enough and the amber lights didn’t help either.

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    I wasn’t trying to be artistic and deep with the black and white. The only way this photos would come out decent if it were in black and white…

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  • Cars, Women, & Hoodratstuff

    Royal Origin – Cars, Women, & Hoodratstuff from Vu Pham on Vimeo.

    We took a couple of bagged cars, beautiful ladies, and some of our street wear out for a nice day at the park.
    For more, visit Royal-Origin.com and to pick up some of the wear visit Shop.Royal-Origin.com.

    Special thanks to:
    EPonym (Song: EPonym & ESTA – H&B)

    LS430:
    Steve Dam (@instadammmn)

    Ladies:
    Nathalia (@nattykboo)
    Heather (@yofatassma)
    Nancy (@_nancysm)

    BTS:
    Minh Nyugen (@nguass) (Owner: IS250)
    Celso Nimo (@celsonimo)
    Henry Nguyen (@hennessy_henry)
    Shavi Wijegunaratne (@shaviw)

  • Cruising With The Meat

    Cruising With The Meat

    A couple of weeks ago; our friends from Lowballers Japan paid California a visit. It was great to show them around and give them a taste of our daily Hoodrat American shenanigans. The night before they were to fly back home to the land of the rising sun we did our best to organize a meet to end their trip to California with an awesome memory. Blasted on mediums of social media the meet had an awesome turnout. Cars from all over showed up and the parking lots went bonkers. What started as a meet turn into a cruise. Explanation to follow…

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    The planned location was at the Best Buy parking lot at the Tustin Marketplace on the border of Irvine and Tustin. Although it was “scheduled” to start at 9PM, I showed up to the parking lot at 8:30  to find rows of cars already lined up and people already mingling. Cars continued to fill the lot and the parking lot got filled quick. Around 9:15 Tustin PD showed up and kicked us out. I guess there was just too many awesome cars for them to handle. Word spread quick that the next spot to meet was the Petsmart parking lot at The District down the street.

    349I’m not a fan of the trending crazy-sporty-VIP style, but i love the attention to detail that people put into these builds

    354Christ Foreman – Back into hover mode after his drift day

    356Every time I see this car, I lose my mind. It’s static, it gets driven, it’s awesome

    Word had traveled quick as everyone was forced to leave the Tustin Marketplace. The next spot was the Petsmart parking lot at The District. Like a scene from The Fast and The Furious almost everyone rolled up and bombed down Jamboree. Oil pans scraped and cars screamed at wide open throttle to the next spot. Once everyone had reconvened at the second location, people continued to hang out but eventually Tustin PD showed up once again and escorted us all out. On to spot number 3.

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    360A President ready to rule the world

    361Another shot of the biblical drifting prodigy

    365Every time Nick rolls up to scene, he’s bumping trance.

    367So much beauty

    368It’s a rare sighting seeing Angelo with his silver other-half rather than his Korean one

    375One day; I will have one of my own

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    381Drift ready

    382Mugen faced RSXs aren’t as common as they should be. Who doesn’t like an awesome happy looking car?

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    387NVUS came out with some cool cars

    391Purple contrast

    393It wouldn’t be a car meet without someone showing off their steering wheel

    394You don’t see those colors on those chassis’ too often

    396A Porsche that gets the girl, a comfy Lexus that keeps the girl, a van to take the kids around if the girl gets pregnant.

    399An old friend from the 8thcivic community. JUAN CHEESE!

    401v8 POWWWWAHHHHH

    403IS-F: “Mine has over 400hp”.  IS350: “Mine has over 12k spring rates”.

    406Time for spot number 3…

     

    Spot number 3 was the structure of the Diamond Jamboree Plaza which was further down the street out of Tustin PD’s jurisdiction.

    408Ready to disturb the peace

    409Wait…. why??

    411Two different styles, one common purpose. DRIFT.

    412BBS RS’ are played out you say? not when they’re built like Jimmy’s.

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    416Dippin’

    420IIRC, this thing had an FMIC 😉

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    Meet J-Ho. She’s awesome for those lonely nights

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    429A Lexus with a hint of Benz

    432I need one of these in my life

    435All the way from Vegas

    436The President made it out to spot number 3!

    438Parking structure filled quick!

    440RB26DETTs were found in both of these

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    To those who came out; thanks for showing the Lowballers Japan guys some cool cars and how committed people are in Socal. I’m sure they appreciated the magnitude of the meet and will be looking forward to the next one when they pay Socal another visit.

    – Jay Tien

    Instagram @jaygiatien

  • New Year. New Ass.

    It was the first day of the new year, and I wanted to get a move on with recording anything. Here is a few clips I recorded while Minh was washing his car for the Lowballer Japan guys, who are currently in town visiting till Sunday. Made this strictly to share on Instagram.

    Filmed & Edited By: Shavi Wijegunaratne

    Instagram:
    @ShaviW
    @RoyalOrigin

  • LA Puente Hills Mitsubish Meet Photo Deposit.

    LA Puente Hills Mitsubish Meet Photo Deposit.

     Sup cuties. Enjoy the photos.

  • Thursty Thursday.

    Thursty Thursday.

    Water rolled down our faces, and our worst fears became reality when the rainy clouds appeared. All week long, the summer rays were shining bright as ever, but on the night of our meet, nature decided that it was thirsty for some rain. Hours before the meet, we were still debating whether or not we should have the meet or postpone it because at 9pm, the weather forecast predicted thunderstorms. Like all of our previous meets, we decided last minute that the meet would continue and we didn’t really care who came out because we had to get our Peach Me Sweatea fix. I rolled up early and to my surprise, there were already a gang of cars. I didn’t know there were people as down as us to kick it even during thunderstorms.

    Cars were constantly coming through; the Tastea lot was overflowing with rain and cars, so people started parking in the fire lanes and handicap zones.

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  • Royal Origin Summer

    Royal Origin Summer

    School is out and summer is here, so we got our short shorts, rounded up the homies, and went to the park for a BBQ. David, being as generous as he is, planned the event and bought all the food for us. He grilled some delicious burgers and Korean BBQ for us. We had a good time and there were good vibes. Some of us got friendly rounds of basketball in and even played tag. We haven’t seen each other as often as before because of our busy lives, so it was nice that everyone came out. A meet up with Royal Origin also means a car meet, so the parking lot at the park looked like a full blown car meet.
    Here is Jimmy’s fresh-to-death Civic…

    Charles took out the Q45 for a tan along with Nick’s SC400. Nick’s SC was lowered the next day, so watch out for that! Should look sick.

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  • Wekfest 2012 – San Francisco

    Wekfest 2012 – San Francisco

    Sunday, February 19th, 2012 was the day of the highly anticipated Wekfest 4 by Weksos Industries. This Northern California Automotive Show did not disappoint one bit. People from all over the country came to the San Francisco Bay for this event.  There were just good vibes all around. The amount of spectators at Wekfest was just crazy. We got to catch up with some old pals and we also got to meet a lot of new people! There were just good vibes all around.

    One of the two hangers at Fort Mason

    Cars rolling into Fort Mason
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  • The Impossible Will Take a While (The Story of my Lexus SC400)

    The Impossible Will Take a While (The Story of my Lexus SC400)

    Everyone has their dream cars, from the NSX  to the Murcielago. In all my years I was into cars, I was never really into those super cars that everyone would give an arm and a leg for. I have a slightly different liking for cars. I’m more into the cars that everyone sees everyday and then making them a beautiful form of moving  art. I know people say this is just a hobby and you’ll probably get over it in years to come, but I believe it’s something much more than that. It’s my way of showing the world that there is a creative side of me because hell I can not draw or paint if my life depended on it. I’m trying to get my SC400 ready for AUTOCON because to me that event is like an art gallery and one of the pieces that I want to be displayed is my car.

    You must be thinking, “Damn, Minh you have two cars?! Must be freaking nice” and I have to tell you it is nice. The story behind me buying this car was when I had the money I could have bought UAS(Universal Air System) aka bags for my IS250.

    When I talked to my financial adviser(my girlfriend) she said, “With that much money, why don’t you just buy another car?” I considered investing in something like Bitcoin UK, but instead, we decided to buy another car. She helped put in half of the money, so half of this car belongs to her and whatever I do to it, I run it by her first. Good thing we have similar taste in everything. So, here it is my 1992 Lexus SC400…

    The first thing you should do to any car is drop it. After months of research, I decided to go with Powered by Max coil overs. It was the most stiffest ride you can get(insert dirt joke here) and probably gives you the best drop for the SC. They also dip it in gold for you and give you copper plated springs.


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  • The Pursuit 3.

    The Pursuit 3.

    The Pursuit 3 hosted by Longo Lexus is one of the biggest Lexus gatherings. The Pursuit is like Eibach for Lexus owners. Every year, they offer free drag racing for the day, In-N-Out and thousands of dollars worth of raffle prizes it’s a no wonder that people from all over the United States come to attend this meet. Lucky for me it was only a 30 minute drive to get there and I got to roll hella deep with Erick, Daniel, Berlin and local Club Lexus members. The first thing I saw was an onslaught of Lexuses, felt like I was at a dealership and all the cars were modded.

    and yes, your vision isn’t going bad that is a PINK IS300.
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