static – Royal Origin

Light Work with Simon’s MR-S | Royal Origin Member

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

October 29, 2019

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.

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

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

New Toyota Racing livery, which was first demonstrated at NASCAR in Sonoma, Washington.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Looks 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.

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

Livery and stickers provided by AWstickers.

The awesome Greddy color way.

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

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

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

Looks good at all angles.

Vertex Racing steering wheel looks at home in there.

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.

August 28, 2016

Throwback to Vinh’s S13 | Royal Origin Member

Thought I make a post of Vinh’s S13 from when I shot it for Stance Nation. These are some of the photos that didn’t make it into the article. Check it out!

Wet.

I miss seeing this car.

Vinh tore this car down to the very shell and made this beautiful creation.

Henry lives up to his name.

It was awesome seeing this car scrape the roads of Orange County.

Work Equip perfection.

The sun set too soon for this car..

Still missing you everyday. Check out this video I made of some old clips of Vinh’s S13.

-NGUMINH

July 21, 2016

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.

Met up with Nick and Jeremy for Baby Stacks.

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

Adobo Fried Rice.

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

Amazing that it can move at this height.

Vertex and camber forever.

-NGUMINH

July 19, 2016

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.

Thanks.

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

June 18, 2016

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

June 10, 2016

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

May 27, 2016

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

May 25, 2016

OMWTFYB | Enjoy Sin

It was finally here, the weekend of the Enjoy Sin car meet with HNRS. We’ve been counting the days, minutes and seconds to finally spend some good quality time with friends and family. One of my favorite things to take photos of during this event is the caravan to Vegas, it’s just such a thrill to see a bunch of modified cars cruising together on the freeway. This post will be mostly rolling shots of the caravan.

Jeff looking mighty dapper this early.

Erik and Nimo trying to get dabber themselves.

UNDERWATER SQUAD.

Ryo’s Q45 rolling static on Koenig Monsters.

New member Aron’s M35 on Weds Bazerias.

Jaycray’s brand spanking new RC350 with it’s first road trip. Glad that we were apart of it.

The biggest surprise on the trip was Adam taking his S13. Glad to see it made the trip without any problems.

Kentaro rolling through with the most reliable car here.

Marq was hesitant about taking his 7 series to Vegas because of some transmission problems, but he ended up making it there with no problems and he only used half a tank to get from Cali to Vegas. Quite impressive for a big body BMW.

Ryan Gold’s bright ass EVO was fun to shoot for rolling shots. Ryan made the trek with us all the way from Santa Barbara.

This year we had faster cars in this caravan, but we paced it pretty well so Vu and I could get some good rolling shots of the caravan. Thanks Ashton for not going 0 to 130 real quick.

Another speed demon, Phat and his Cayman S.

Jeff’s WRX was my camera car and he did a great job catching up to everyone and pacing the car so I could get the best shots.

Robros Customs let Vinh drive the STI to the meet. The wrap looked great in the sun.

Derek pulled an all nighter to get his car ready for this trip. He spent the whole night wrapping his front end just to look decent for the meet.

Kevin’s S2000 was looking great now that it looks pretty much complete with his hardtop.

One of the lowest cars in the caravan was boss man, Jimmy’s Civic. He was literally scraping his diffuser all the way to Vegas.

Jimmy did a public service and picked up all the trash on the freeway.

The second camera car with Vu in the passenger seat.

This year Erik and his EP3 joined us in the caravan to Vegas. His car looks freaking ridiculous when it’s rolling

Gas station stop.

Jimmy couldn’t make it up the drive way, so he parked in the streets.

We finally made it to our first destination, the M Resort where they have a good deal for lunch at the Studio B buffet. It’s been a tradition that we hit this buffet first before doing anything else in Vegas.

Sparkle’s M3 our Taiwan dealer of Royal Origin and HOODRATstuff also joined us in the caravan. Sucks, we missed his car for a rolling shot.

EVO booty.

Jesus, we made it.

Shavi leading the squad.

For the first time, we beat the rush for the buffet. Vinh and John excited to stuff their faces.

Looks like heaven.

Japan x Taiwan x Vietnam.

After the buffet, we went to check in at the house we rented. The driveway was so large that it could have fit all of our cars, too bad some of us couldn’t make it up the driveway.

Neel is now a Vegas local and met up with us as soon as we arrived.

Safe and sound.

The house was pretty awesome, large enough for all of us and it had so many activities like this gaming room.

Tina excited for some pool.

Ryan sucks at shuffle board.

This will be empty by tomorrow.

Current events meeting aka deciding where we’re going to go eat.

Angelo, the leader of the RO offroad edition.

That’s it for today, the next post will be coverage of the meet!

March 5, 2015

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.

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.

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

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

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

The pieces to a very complicated puzzle.

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

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

Damn, I miss driving around like a boss.

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

Sadly, this car will be sold soon..

More of Ryo’s Q45.

Dem camber specs tho..

The master teaching the student.

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.