Tag: Shavi

  • Eibach / NWP Reboot Meet | Event Coverage

    Eibach / NWP Reboot Meet | Event Coverage

    Within the Honda community there have been a few recognizable Honda specific groups, with such being NWP aka NWP4Life. NWP started as a close group of local Honda enthusiasts, who hang out at North Wood Pizza (where the name comes from) and grew from there to have a strong Honda specific forum, which is where the internet came together to share tasteful Honda platforms. And so through the years and years of being around they decided to throw a reboot meet at Eibach Springs, which welcomed all makes and models, but of course hella Honda platforms.

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    dsc07944Got the chance to tour the Eibach Springs Headquarters in Corona, California; which showed the process of transforming the raw materials into springs, coilovers, sway bars, spacers, and everything in between. Definitely an awesome experience and tour.

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    Thanks

    Shavi Wijegunaratne
    Instagram: shaviw
    shavi@royal-origin.com

  • Late Evolution | Video

    Late Evolution | Video

    Two years ago my friend Jordan was trading his Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X for Keith’s Lexus IS300, and he wanted to capture his long time love before giving it away. It took me awhile to finish the video because of other side projects and some laziness. So, fast forward to the present day, where I have finally finished putting the video together, Jordan doesn’t have the IS300 anymore, and Keith still has the Evo X.

    Here is the video captured two years ago when Jordan was still in possession. Enjoy.

    Shavi Wijegunaratne
    Instagram: shaviw
    shavi@royal-origin.com

  • Boden Bash 2016 | Event Coverage

    Boden Bash 2016 | Event Coverage

    Boden AutoHaus a premium air suspension specialist shop in Costa Mesa, California put together a car meet that had a cars and coffee type vibe with a good variety of makes/models coming together to share their Saturday morning together. These are the cars that caught my eye.

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    DSC07888Matt’s GS400 equipped with 326power and Black Magician kit on SSR Professor SP1.

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    After Boden Bash 2016, we head up to 714 Tires to meet up with John to hangout while he gets an alignment since we were getting lunch together after that.

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    DSC07895John’s C6 Corvette on Rotiform LVS.

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    Shavi Wijegunaratne
    Instagram: shaviw
    shavi@royal-origin.com

  • Greddy Pandem E36 | Wekfest Prep

    Greddy Pandem E36 | Wekfest Prep

    Kevin recently collaborated with his parent company Greddy on his latest project BMW E36. The last build was the red Honda S2000 that we posted here often. The E36 will demonstrate the latest Greddy Performance products that are offered in the automotive market with the finalization of the build at SEMA 2016 in November.

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    DSC06015You can always spot these Rocket Bunny Lexus pair at the Greddy Headquarters in Irvine, California.

    DSC06023Formula Drift driver Ken Gushi’s Scion Racing Greddy Racing FRS.

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    DSC06026The heart of Ken Gushi’s FRS is this Greddy powered 2JZ-GTE.

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    DSC05984The raw Rocket Bunny Pandem BMW E36 parts ready to be fitted on Kevin’s car.

    DSC05988Enkei 6666 wheels. The standard for Rocket Bunny Pandem built E36s.

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    DSC05997Kevin fine tuning the fitment of the kit to the car before cutting and paint.

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    DSC06062Spotted a beautiful R32. Pretty common place now in SoCal.

    DSC07692Another day at Greddy HQ, and this time spotted one of two LC500, which is coming from concept to reality.

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    DSC07689Looks good from the front, but the rear is quite questionable. Its here at Greddy HQ for some research and development since Greddy has a good relationship with Lexus.

    DSC07695Limited edition Takata x Rocket Bunny street reclinable seats  going into Kevin’s E36 build.

    DSC07701Livery and stickers provided by AWstickers.

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    DSC07722The awesome Greddy color way.

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    DSC07726The Sung Kang x Greddy Racing collaborated 1973 Nissan 240z also makes it home inside the Greddy HQ.

    DSC07732The results of building this in about a month or so, which is pretty incredible. Ready for its first show case at Wekfest San Jose.

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    DSC07743Truly love how the Rocket Bunny Pandem kit extenuates all the lines that were already standard to the E36 platform.

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    DSC07748Looks good at all angles.

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    DSC07768Vertex Racing steering wheel looks at home in there.

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    Good job to Kevin for working on this build in such a short amount of time. Many late nights went into this, and there are many more nights to come, especially with the next phase of the build being a 2JZ-GTE build. Also, congratulations for getting 2nd place best BMW at Wekfest San Jose 2016.

  • Vegas for a Day | Road Trips

    Vegas for a Day | Road Trips

     Did a suicide trip with Shavi to Vegas, so I could surprise the wife. Thanks Shavi for being the real MVP.

    The road to Vegas from Orange County.

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    Met up with Nick and Jeremy for Baby Stacks.

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    How Shavi looks after driving 4 hours. Check out that bokeh in the back.

    Adobo Fried Rice.

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    Got back to Shavi’s house and checked out what Shavi’s working on for the M30.

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    Amazing that it can move at this height.

    Vertex and camber forever.

    -NGUMINH

  • Zion | RO Explore

    Zion | RO Explore

     My favorite thing to do is be out in the wilderness where mass murderers and bears can come out to kill you without any way of calling for help because you know in all movies police or any government aid in the wilderness are pretty much useless. But for my wife’s happiness, I risked my safety and we planned a trip out to Zion National Park with Chivas, Shavi, Nimo, Derek, Polly, Angelo and Bonnie. Most of my photos will be covering the second day of the trip, since I wasn’t able to make it to the first day where everyone went off-roading.

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    429 miles, 6 hours and going 110 MPH thanks to my wife’s driving.

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    Crazy how they were able to build these roads through the mountains.

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    We made it to Zion late, but everyone still had a lot of energy to cook dinner.

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    Here we have Chivas over cooking a marshmallow.

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    Omelette.

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    Julia is the crazy hiker, who hears something scary and goes and check its out.

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    Me and my wife Julia.

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    Beautiful waterfalls all over the park.

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    Shavi getting one for the snappy snaps.

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    Chivas at peace with himself.

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    Everywhere is a toilet in the wilderness.

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    Shout out to Julia for carrying the heaviest backpack known to mankind.

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    Secret photo shoots with Polly.

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    Taking it all in.

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    It literally said “Danger Beyond This Point”, but she wanted to go further out for a better picture..

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    Couple stuff.

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    Threesome stuff.

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    Chasing waterfalls.

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    The people who didn’t bail.

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    It was suppose to rain all weekend, but lucky for us the rain cleared and the sun came out.

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    Just beautiful..

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    Homeless Instagram photos with Nimo.

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    Homeless Instagram photo with Angelo.

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    The 4runner did some work yesterday.

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    How do I even coffee?

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    Bacon and Eggs burger at MeMe’s Cafe.

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    Chicken crepe.

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    BBQ pulled pork and onion rings.

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    At night, you could really see the stars so clear, so we decided to venture around the park for some star photos.

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    Ending the night with some smores.

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    Shavi looking good for a person who slept in the car all night.

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    Chivas ready for his close up.

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    Shout out to this crew for cooking, being fun and not bailing. It was a fun time!

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    Chivas with the photo bomb.

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    Man this place is beautiful..

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    Shavi smooth.

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    Angelo’s face when he sees a nice ass.

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    Champion.

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    Nimo all HOODRATstuff out.

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    Amazing jumping abilities by Nimo and Chivas.

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    Chivas took us to this mountain where there was a huge crack in it.

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    RO OFF-ROAD.

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    We ended this trip on a good note with Baby Stacks!

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    Definitely one of the most memorable camping trips I’ve been on. Thanks Chivas for planning it and everyone else for the good times. We definitely need to plan the next one soon!

    -NGUMINH

  • Zion | RO Offroad

    Zion | RO Offroad

    It hasn’t been long since some of us have fallen in love with off-roading, which really compliments our love of all things car, and exploring the world we live in. So, we decided to plan a Friday to Sunday camping and off-roading trip to Zion National Park in Utah.  With Zion National Park only 2-3 hours away from Las Vegas, Nevada, and 6-7 hours away from Southern California; it was far enough to change the scenery dramatically. The first day was just filled with getting there, and setting up camp so we could off-road till the sunsets.

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    The primary off-roading vehicle; Chivas with his Toyota 4Runner overland build.

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    The secondary off-roading vehicle; Derek with his Jeep Wrangler Sport.

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    There was a light rain fall earlier, but cleared up perfectly in time for first day.

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    It felt like the cartoon movie “Cars” out here. The beautiful iron-filled surroundings gave the awesome rich red color to this area.

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    Just taking a dip.

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    Chivas leading the way on the off-roading trails.

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    It was the most fun I have had in the longest time being in this car and ripping through the creeks and streams.

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    Derek, Angelo, and Nimo were about to do some shenanigans.

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    Ripping through the stream with Angelo as a hood ornament.

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    These cows eventually blocked our path at one point. Until Angelo told them to “mooooooo-ve.”

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    You can just imagine a bunch of dinosaurs running across this area like Jurassic Park.

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    This ain’t a study area no more.

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    YOTA BOYZ.

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    So photogenic out here.

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    Here is a video of Chivas ripping through this area and hitting the rev-limiter:

    That was pretty much day one of exploring and enjoying Zion National Park. Check to see what we did on our second day there.

    Shavi Wijegunaratne
    Instagram: shaviw
    shavi@royal-origin.com

  • Nemo’s Garage | Grand Opening

    Nemo’s Garage | Grand Opening

    It’s that time of the year in Southern California, where the blistering heat and car meets align. This weekend took us to the Nemo’s Garage grand opening in Ontario, California. And as you will see they are new, but veterans of experience and knowledge in the automotive realm; big with the Honda platforms.

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    Thanks.

     Shavi Wijegunaratne
    Instagram: shaviw
    shavi@royal-origin.com

  • Wekfest LB 2016 | Video Highlight

    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
    shavi@royal-origin.com

  • Jimmy’s Civic & Erik’s EP3 | Video

    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
    shavi@royal-origin.com