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Fast Autoworks

The last stop on this all-day car meet was Fast Autoworks, where they had a BBQ full of bomb Asian food. If there’s free food, you’ll know where I’ll be. We took a caravan of 10 cars to Fast Autoworks, so the street was filled with modified cars, just like the one scene in Fast and Furious where they had lunch at Dom’s house and the white guy gave thanks for turbos, etc. Anyways, on to the photos…

Pat’s IS-F. He lives near me but I only see him when I go to farass places.

Alec’s S2000.

Swerve crew’s IS250 on HRE wheels.

Daniel’s STI on some temp wheels.

Fast car line up.

Empty bottle money baby!

Rocket Bunny FRS.

Holy hell. Mikey’s wheel fitment is still impressive even after seeing it so many times.

Gautam and Mikey, playing chicken with Jerald.

Street filled with modified cars.

Marc’s car looks long as hell compared to my IS250.

Keith, getting VIP parking.

Another shot of the Swerve IS250.

Awesome midnight purple S2000 on bronze TE-37’s.

Fast Autoworks is in the business of building fast cars like these two Civics.

Tracked out 8th Gen Civics are so cool.

Mike Kim, from Motormavens, stopped by to kick it. If you spell his name backwards it’s Mike Kim again! Amazing.

Swerve.

MBN lifestyle. Vincent’s new LS430.

It was a fun day hanging out with Dat and cruising with the Fatlace FRS. Thanks Alec and Fast Autowoks for the food and hospitality! There are more photos in the gallery!

-NGU ASS

April 23, 2013

LTMW 2013 Meet

It was one of those days where all I wanted to do was check out cars all day long. I decided the night before that I would go to all the car meets on Saturday which included Cars and Coffee in Irvine, LTMW in El Monte, and Fast Autoworks in Arcadia. I met up with Dat at Cars and Coffee because he planned to drive the Fatlace FRS to all the meets. Since he planned to go to the LTMW meet after, we caravanned to Charles’ house where everyone met up before the LTMW meet.

BMW 3, 5, and 7.

Yoshi, leading the pack.

Gautam and Marc met up at Charles’ house too. Note that all three beemers have mesh wheels. It’s going to be a common theme throughout the post.

All Marc needs is a front lip to set this thing off.

LOL BOTTLE CAPS.

All static here.

Celebrity car, the Fatlace FRS.

Gautam’s M5 on dem purps.

Haven’t seen Armand in a while; he’s still riding hella fucking flush.

I wonder if that Go-Pro is there to check out the reactions of people when he drives by or to see his suspension travel when he drives.

Keith came out to play.

Bagged 5 series on Waffes. Awesome.

Dumped CRZ rolling through.

The more I see these newer Honda Accords modded, the more I want to take Jennifer’s Accord and slam it with my Scaras.

S2K with some meat fitment on Mag Blue Volk TE-37.

Time Attack EVO 8.

Prepare for a bombardment of BMWs of all series on either mesh wheels or TE-37’s.

BMW owners love their TE-37’s and mesh wheels.

Something different, Courtney’s F30 on SSR SP1’s.

5 Spoke goodness.

This guy is everywhere…Sam’s Civic, also on TE-37’s. I guess he can fit in with this crowd.

Yoshi and Sam.

Releasing the monster.

I always see this E36 on tumblr. Glad to be able to see it in person for the first time.

Fatlace FRS, posted.

Another person I haven’t seen in a while is Jose and his Audi A3.

The paint on this VW is so crazy. Brown and greenish color.

Speaking of green, Jose’s Audi A3.

LTMW E90 was displayed in the middle of the lot.

Sick blue CCW’s to fit this wide monstrosity.

Going to end it with this model, who dressed pretty skimpy. She looked pretty out of place, modeling at the Stance Wheels booth. Anyways, thanks LTMW for throwing a fun meet and for the free food! Check out the rest of the photos in the gallery.

-NGU ASS

April 22, 2013

A Night to Remember

About a week ago, Lowballers Japan came out to Cali for a little visit. We actually threw a small meet for them so they could get a feel of what the car scene is like out here. Unfortunately, I arrived to the meet on Filipino time so I wasn’t able to snap any pictures. A couple of days after the meet, we took the Lowballers out for the night. We decided on Past Memories in Garden Grove. It is a small Korean restaurant that serves bombdotcom Soju and pretty good Korean Food. This time, I had my camera with me, so I was ready to snap some pictures of the infamous Lowballers Japan, but stupid me got too buzzed to take pictures so I ended up forgetting to take my camera out (I’m sorry).

Shortly after dinner, the Lowballers went back to their hotel because they had an extremely early flight the next morning. Vince and Yogi from Fatlace/Illest decided to come out and chill with us that night, and Vince brought out his Gangster of Gangsters Honda Odyssey. Nimo also came out that night and brought out his super dumped IS300. Since we were all together and Yogi also had his camera, we decided to do a photo shoot of Vince’s car and the rest of the cars that were there.

We started the night off at a DIY car wash. Vince, looking sexy as fuck, washing his car.

Vince making sure the van is spotless.

Minh tried to be sexy like Vince, but failed.

Nimo decided to dump the shit out of his car so he could shit on June Choi…lol jk.

Nimo now eats the pavement for breakfast.

Minh thinking to himself, “mehhh, that was me two years ago.”

My little sister DD for me that night, she’s awesome. Keep a look out for her STI this year. It’s going to be crazy.

Yogi about to do some magic with his camera.

Unfortunately all the pictures I took of Vince’s car came out like shit. All of them were super grainy or too dark. I messed around with one picture in Photoshop and this is what I came out with. Like I said before, this van is super gangster. I believe it is rocking a set of Work Meister’s s1R on one side and a set of SSr MS1 on the other side. Don’t quote me on it though because I am not 100 percent sure.

Yogi’s photographer stance.

Jeff came out that night as well, and brought out his RSX. This thing will always make you drool.

Nimo and Young decided to park hard as fuck at the underground parking lot.

Neel’s Honda Accord with a fresh set of Work Emitz.

Neel’s Accord has to be one of the most underrated and overlooked cars in the car scene. It definitely needs more publicity because his car is just neckbreaking!!

Vinh’s new wheel set up 3 pc Work Meisters. So glossy.

5 spoke swerve.

Mr. Shumai poppin in for a visit.

The guys talking about how Vincent’s car is so low that we could put our penis’ on the roof.

That pretty much sums up the night we had. Until next time, everyone!!

-Anglelow

Photos by Angelo and Minh

Instagram : angelocalderon

February 2, 2013

White & White

We were out in Las Vegas, Nevada for the end of the SEMA show at the Las Vegas Convention Center. After we were done with SEMA, we had some time to chill with our friends out there like usual and shoot the cars for a bit. It had been a while since I made a video and got my hands on a new crane, so it was a fun way to learn some new things while filming. Nevertheless, I especially liked this shoot because both these cars were running new setups; be it new wheels or new lip kits. Check out Minh Nguyen’s Lexus IS250 and Keith Cheng’s Honda Accord.

Royal Origin – White Power from Shavi Wijegunaratne on Vimeo.

I also had some time to take some pictures, something I rarely do, but have gotten into playing around with my photo skills these days.

Minh still rocking the Junction Produce Scara wheels, but now with a new lip kit. Looks mighty fine.

Keith recently got a much needed firmware update on his wheel setup; it’s been outdated since 2010. Now updated to Work VS-KF wheels.

PEACE BE WITH YOU.

-Shavi W.

December 7, 2012

2012 Forumla Drift/Slammed Society: Irwindale

On Saturday, October 13th, a majority of the Royal Origin guys including myself attended the 2012 Formula Drift: Title Fight event at the Irwindale Speedway. This was the last FormulaD event of the year and a Formula Drift Champion would be crowned by the end of the day. Along with the main drifting event, Fatlace hosted the Slammed Society Showcase.

The Irwindale Speedway.

First time in a while that we rolled deep to a show.

The Royal Origin window cleaner position has finally been filled. Good work Bonnie!

BMW M5 on Leon Hardiritt Orden’s. Owned by Mark of Phase2.

I’m in love…

Kirk’s STi from RoyalFlush.

Nimo rockin’ some Work VS-KF’s and his newly painted matched flares.

Allen of Low n Slow.

…More like low and fast.

Sup girl, heard you like big tips.

Angelo displaying his new wheels at the showcase.

Beautifully slammed Accord.

Ken Block.

What’s a car show without models?

FormulaD media meeting.

It was pretty damn hot out there on the track. Luckily, they gave us free water to stay hydrated.

First time shooting on the track; it was an awesome experience.

The Champ, Daigo Saito.

Alex keeping me company at the track.

Awfilms working hard or hardly working? Hmmm.

Got some behind-the-scene coverage.

Badass little Z4.

Greddy FR-S.

The awards.

Time for some crew love.

Nimo’s IS300 scraping everywhere.

Alex’s E36.

Vu’s Miata on his new Work Meister CR01.

Keychain looking sexy with his VS-KF’s.

Angelo debuting his Volk.

Ryan’s GTI.

Minh’s revitalized IS250. Came out looking hard.

Gerald aka Rootbeer from Vegas.

Jimmy’s civic on brand new Rotiform TMB’s. Ballin’… Be sure to check out the rest of the photos in the gallery!

-VINH

November 11, 2012

See Ya Later…

The part I hate most about our out-of-state friends visiting us, is saying goodbye. All good things come to an end and even though we will for sure see them in the near future, it’s always sad when they leave. We started out the day with the obligatory all-you-can-eat Korean BBQ at Cham Sut Gol.

Sizzlin’ brisket.

The best part about eating at Cham Sut Gol is the free thrifty ice cream.

Afterwards, we rolled out to meet up with Nimo and the IE guys for a photo shoot in Anaheim Hills.

Love watching the sun kiss…

Ryan’s gangster GTI.

This is the first thing Nimo does when he sees me…

Vuzoku.

Figuring out how to ride this contraption.

Vu’s Miata with his brand new Work Meister CR-01.

Looks perfect on his car.

Ryan’s GTI on 3SDM.

Nimo test driving the Sunkist.

He looks pretty good in it.

Jeff and Kentaro.

Jeff giving all of these cars a blessing. WARNING: The next couple of photos might give you a small glimpse of heaven.

A better photo of Vu’s Miata. So clear…

IE guys.

Yoshi rockin’ the Hella Flush Japan shirt.

A photo within a photo.

Black reflections.

Sun kiss me.

INSTAGRAM CREW.

Good times hanging out with the Vegas crew. It’s never a goodbye for us, it’s always a see ya later. We’ll reunite again at Formula D Irwindale!

-NGU ASS

Photos by NGU ASS & Jeff Payuan aka Father Jeff.

October 7, 2012

He Said, “BAGS ARE FOR GROCERIES”

Hello Everyone! I haven’t blogged on this site for so long that I pretty much forgot how everything worked. Well, actually, I don’t think I ever learned how to use this site properly in the first place, so it doesn’t really matter. But anyways lots of awesome things have been happening to me within these last couple of weeks. I recently picked up a new camera and lens so I was pretty excited about that.

But forget about all my bullshit talking and let’s get into the badass shit. The car you see below your pupils belongs to a good friend of mine that goes by the name of Zack. As soon as I picked up my new camera, he coincidentally purchased some wheels for his LS400, so me being the excited one with a new camera, automatically asked him if he was down to do a photoshoot. He happily agreed so we set a date and time to make it happen. Unfortunately the first time Zack and I met up, I had decided to use my crappy Canon UV filter on my 24-70. This filter sucks ball sack and I have no clue why I used it, so all the pictures I took came out blurry as fuck. I was really upset but Zack said it was cool and would let me re-shoot it the following week. We shot it again the following week, and this time I had my new 16-35 with me. It was my first time messing with a wide angle lens, and all I could say is, it is super awesome!!! I am still learning how to use it so some of these pictures may look a little weird and that’s because I was positioning the car the wrong way for a wide angle, but I’m still learning so don’t scrutinize me please!

This LS 400 is one of the lowest, if not the lowest, static LS400 state wide. Zack decided to do something a little different, he wanted to go with a VIP style car but also rock that sporty look at the same time, and this is the result. He decided to run a custom set of Rotiform SJC’s in sizings of 18×10-23 and 18×12-13, yup rub your eyeballs and squint a couple of times cause those specs are correct. Zack decided to match those with a set of KSPORT COILOVERS, not bags. You will understand why I caplocked coilovers. He also had his exhaust straight piped so this thing sounds like a monster. The car may look a little janky at the moment but it is still in its beginning stages, so don’t even judge it yet. He has paint and legit body work in the works already. He also has a set of studio RCA’s coming in so you will definitely see this thing cambered out “back to the future style.” Believe it or not, he also plans to lower the car some more. I told him he’s crazy, but that’s Zack, he will push it to the absolute limit.

Zack does all the work on his car, and let me tell you, he puts a new definition in the word “HOODRAT.” Zack does not give a single fuck when he works on his car!

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September 4, 2012

StanceWorks | Avila Invitational

The boys & I went on a road trip to check out StanceWorks Avila Invitational. We wanted to see cars we usually don’t see and enjoy some scenery. The day started at 4:30A.M. with 5 hour energy drinks and hot cheetos.

Gassing up before the longass 4-hour drive.

I rode along with Derek; he drove this low with a packed car, which actually helped with the stiff ride. It was super bouncy, but I still managed to take a nap.

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July 31, 2012

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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July 26, 2012

People of Awesome!!!

A couple of weeks ago, we met up because it’s been a while since we last saw each other. We decided to kick it with a close group of friends, nicknamed AWESOME PEOPLE! Yeah, that’s right, awesome people. It’s funny how this group on Facebook came about. The group started off with people who were showing with Royal Origin for the 2011 Autocon show. Gradually after the show, our friends started to add people for fun and now we have a huge group of awesome people posting up everything, from drifting to people’s penis. What’s especially cool about the group is that we all share a common hobby, cars. We don’t just drive ordinary cars, but we drive AWESOME ones. The day we all decided to meet up also turned out to be the day that we would do a mini car meet on top of Diamond Jamboree. Fun Fact: Diamond Jamboree is pretty much the hangout spot for awesome people, so if you want to kick it with us just hit us up at Lollicup. Anyways, the little car meet ended up turning into somewhat of a photo shoot. With so many cool cars, it was hard not to take pictures. So here is what I have for you.

This awesome Miata you see below is Zayan’s. Believe it or not, Zayan claims that this is his raised ride height. Stupid crazy if you ask me!

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July 10, 2012

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