street faction – Royal Origin

Street Faction Grand Opening

Seeing progress is one of the best things in life, especially when you see it in your friends. Matt and Thao from Street Faction have come a long way from working on cars on Matt’s driveway to welding inside of card board boxes. Present day, they finally opened up their own shop where they can do full custom fabrications for any car and of course we had to come out to support them.

Vinh making Derek miss his Subaru.

Squat crew.

S-chasis all day here.

and some colorful folks.

Rarely see a first generation GS done up like this. Very nice.

V formation squad roll up.

Packed house, glad to see there’s a ton of support for Street Faction.

The boss lady herself, Thao.

I’m the only guy at a meet taking photos of other guys.

Matt secretly loves it though.

Young Choi coming out of hibernation to hang out even though he was late.

Glad to see him in another Lexus IS300.

He’s expecting his first daughter in August, congrats Young!

Congrats Street Faction on a successful grand opening! I hope it will transcend into your business. Hit up Street Faction for all your fabrication needs.

Some bonus photos…

June 7, 2015

Moving Forward | Shop Visit

The year is already reaching midway and things have been changing rapidly for the people around me. Over at Robros Customs, we just finished some body and suspension work on Sparkle’s S13 our Taiwan HOODRATstuff dealer.

Jason making sure every little bit of this car is perfect.

Did some brake dust cleaning with JDM Chemicals Brake Dust Remover while Jason was working on Sparkle’s S13.

Rinsed down with a quick wipe and the grime is still hard to remove

Added some of JDM Chemicals Brake Dust Cleaner.

Let it soak.

And voila the grime is easily removed.

Brand new Klutch Wheels.

Time to install the frame mount Rocket Bunny wing on the S13.

A bunch of pieces for the puzzle.

Time to convert everything into blue.

Team work makes the dream work.

Frame mount wings are so hard.

Meanwhile waiting for the car at Street Faction’s newest shop..

We had Matt replaced the sub frame bushings with solid mounts.

Matt already had his first customer project car at the new shop.

A kouki S14 with some engine troubles that Matt is going to diagnose and fix.

This S14 is sporting a bash bar made by Matt.

This S14 looks like it’s been through some adventures on the track.

Bash bar supplies.

Matt and Kevin pressing in the bushings.

This table was welded together by Matt himself.

Those welds.

The custom sub frame bushing to make the S13’s chassis more stiffer.

Custom made because sub frame bushings were out of stock from all of the surrounding companies and these ones don’t move.

All pressed in.

Time for the smaller bushings, Matt fingering it to get it all lubed up.

So much finger muscle, Matt is able to press it in with just his fingers.

Hit up Street Faction for any fabrication work! Let them know you were referred by us!

Also I have a 70-200mm 2.8 NON IS for sale! $900 takes it! Email me at originminh@gmail.com for more info.

May 11, 2015

Manji Series | HOODRATstuff

You should already know that we love cars and we love to bad things, so combining the two was a natural thing to do. So, we hit up Matt and Thao from Street Faction to see if they were up to do some bad things.

Getting ready to hide their license plates.

We had some trouble with one of the wheels getting a flat.

Don’t worry Thao will fix it.

Back on the road.

Beautiful lines.

Our Manji tee being rocked by the sexy Matt Meza.

I need this tatted on my back.

The crew that day.

Thanks Matt and Thao for everything!

Now check out the video below of the bad things we did.

Get the manji series here..

http://shop.royal-origin.com/tees-s/114.htm

April 22, 2015

Street Faction Welded Nights

Some of you may know, when working on cars there’s always a bump in the road to complete your project. Those bumps in the roads usually lead to customizing and cutting things that you didn’t expect. Thankfully we have someone like Matt from Street Faction to help us out. He’s an upcoming fabricator and welder that builds pretty sick drift cars and stylish bash bars that replaces your stock crash bar.