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
Vinh’s garage is where most of our cars have been worked on or fixed and usually we come back the next day because we messed up on something. We’re not perfect, maybe Instagram makes it look like we have perfect cars, but we don’t. It actually takes a lot of work to build a car that we would be happy with. A suspension drop, wheels and a lip kit doesn’t really count as a build for us. It’s definitely a start, but what separates the car scene kids to the true enthusiast is the attention to detail and the never ending thirst to build a complete all around car.
From Lexus to Nissan now Subaru, Vinh is trying to catch them all. He has always been able to build some unique cars with his simplistic style, every car he has built had it’s own way of grabbing your attention without it having something crazy to it.
Vinh’s room mate, Bryan’s M5. Shit’s packing heat with 500hp.
Henry’s freshly bagged GS on Loc’s Work CR Kais. They’re for sale for $1,900.
Today’s project is Abbitt’s Subaru, we were getting it prepped for a tune. Abbitt is not about the details of his car, if it works and looks good, it’s fine for him. He still builds some pretty cool cars though.
Love/hate relationship for Vinh and building cars. He likes building cars, but he hates being broke from buying the parts.
Henry was trying to fix his air leaks all day. #airproblems
John’s been a rut trying to sell his Work VS-TX. Seems like people now a days don’t want to be a gangster.
Holy camber, Batman!
Sunsets and slammed cars. Even though cars can be a headache, nothing beats seeing your hard work put into a car with the sun setting in the background. Do it for the love of the build instead of Instagram likes.
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…
BIPPU
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.
I’m not a fan of the trending crazy-sporty-VIP style, but i love the attention to detail that people put into these builds
Christ Foreman – Back into hover mode after his drift day
Every 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.
JDM4Play
A President ready to rule the world
Another shot of the biblical drifting prodigy
Every time Nick rolls up to scene, he’s bumping trance.
So much beauty
It’s a rare sighting seeing Angelo with his silver other-half rather than his Korean one
One day; I will have one of my own
ForeverYoung
Drift ready
Mugen faced RSXs aren’t as common as they should be. Who doesn’t like an awesome happy looking car?
People everywhere!
NVUS came out with some cool cars
Purple contrast
It wouldn’t be a car meet without someone showing off their steering wheel
You don’t see those colors on those chassis’ too often
A Porsche that gets the girl, a comfy Lexus that keeps the girl, a van to take the kids around if the girl gets pregnant.
An old friend from the 8thcivic community. JUAN CHEESE!
v8 POWWWWAHHHHH
IS-F: “Mine has over 400hp”. IS350: “Mine has over 12k spring rates”.
Time 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.
Ready to disturb the peace
Wait…. why??
Two different styles, one common purpose. DRIFT.
BBS RS’ are played out you say? not when they’re built like Jimmy’s.
Royal Origin Lexus Gang
Dippin’
IIRC, this thing had an FMIC 😉
Meet J-Ho. She’s awesome for those lonely nights
More VIP Goodness
A Lexus with a hint of Benz
I need one of these in my life
All the way from Vegas
The President made it out to spot number 3!
Parking structure filled quick!
RB26DETTs were found in both of these
Hello Boso
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
When I first purchased my Miata, I had very little knowledge of the car. Instead of being an anti-social punk by trying to learn at home on the computer, I always made an effort to go out to roadster meets. In most circumstances I am a firm believer that you can learn a lot more sustainable information about your car by going to gatherings with other enthusiasts instead of reading words on the internet. Not only are meets a great place to gather information, it’s also a great place to socialize with people who obviously share a common interest.
Eventually I became more acquainted with my car and also the community of Roadster drivers. Surprisingly the Orange County area didn’t have any local Roadster meets so a couple of friends and I pitched the idea of having a meet held every other Tuesday at Diamond Jamboree in Irvine.
To give it a little personality the meet was christened with the name Boba & Miatas. The itinerary for every meet would typically be: show up, get boba, and hang out in the parking lot talking about life and Miata’s. Surprisingly the meet has become more than just Roadsters though, as the Imports@UCI guys on occasion collaborate with us and bring out their cool rides as well. It’s always refreshing to have them come out and hang out as they are very awesome guys that aren’t afraid to meet and hang out with new people.
To keep the meet fun, we try to have a unique theme for each gathering. This past Tuesday we decided to have the Boba & Miatas Photoshoot Edition. Imports@UCI came out to mingle and the FR-S crowd also had a meet at Diamond Jamboree as well.
As always, I showed up fashionably late. I came straight from school and didn’t bring a camera. Towards the end of the meet I started messing around with Lerry’s camera to snap a few pictures but most people had already left. Patrick Vidal and Daniel Wood were also kind enough to take pictures for us as well! Here are a few cars that stood out to me at the meet.
This car changed my outlook on having 16″ wheels on an NA(first gen) Miata. No overkill camber and uber poke here. Just good looking clean fitment.
This awesome looking thing belongs to a man that the Miata community refers to as JonB. If you own a Miata and don’t know who he is, then you don’t deserve to own one, but I’ll educate you now. He works at Project-G and has two Miatas. Both cars roll on TE37 Super-laps. His favorite soda is Diet Coke.
Boosted from the factory, this Mazdaspeed Miata belongs to Chris. I like to refer to him as the mad-scientist of the Miata community for the following reasons: 1. He teaches Physics at UCI and, 2. His other Miata is composed of a lot of awesome well thought-out modifications that he has developed and produced all by himself!
This red Mazdaspeed Miata belongs to Kevin. It’s a car that looks simple as he has concentrated in making it perform better. No bark, all bite.
This black NA belongs to Jay. Among Orange County Miata people, he is known as Jay 1.0 (I’m Jay 3.0). If you have fake BRIDE seats he’ll be willing to rip you a new asshole. If you have been in the fitment scene for a long time and remember seeing pictures of a black Miata with chrome Work Eurolines, well this is what that car looks like now. LOL.
Lerry occasionally comes out and hangs out with us too. I’ll never get tired of this car. Who the eff fixes up an FX right??
I hope you readers enjoyed the short coverage of the meet. I encourage you all to try to take some time out and try out a few car meets, even if it’s not the super-duper-awesome Boba & Miatas meet. It doesn’t matter what you drive or what you have done to it. Get in your car and cruise out to your local meet. You won’t be disappointed with what you can learn and who you can meet.
Thanks again to those who come and hang out with us every other Tuesday. Hopefully next time we can get some real pictures of all the cars that show up.
Shout-outs:
Imports@UCI for collaborating with us!
Patrick Vidal and Daniel Wood for their awesome pictures!
This past Father’s Day, I hit up two of my good friends Patrick Daguio and David Uy to do a photoshoot. Patrick drives an 06 STi and David drives an 05 STi. Both are rocking Te37SL (I had no idea until we met up haha). These two guys are both young fathers that have a passion for cars. It’s not easy modding cars while having to care for a child. However, both are able to work hard to take care of their families and at the same time, mod their cars. I thought I had it hard with a girlfriend and a car. Big props to these two.
Volk Te37SL love.
Patrick rolling on 18×10 +15.
Wekfest Long Beach was one of the most anticipated car shows that I have been waiting for. One reason was because I was planning to show my car, and another reason was because I knew it would bring out the best of the best that SoCal has to offer.
I was hoping to have a lot done on my car for Wekfest, but time was not on my side. I was really busy with school, trying to get ready for finals, and work took up all my time on the weekends, so I ended up not changing anything. I did add one big piece of information, and that is my car is for sale. That was the main reason why I wanted to show my car at Wekfest. I wanted to promote it and let everyone know that it’s for sale. But enough about my car and me, and onto the show. Wekfest was spectacular like always. I felt like it was better organized than last year. We did not have to wait a long time to get our cars into the show, and the parking situation was well-planned and organized. The finest cars came out and displayed what they had. I noticed that the VIP style is very popular this year, and is becoming something very main stream. There were also a lot of nice functional cars on display ranging from Subie track cars to tracked out Civics. The styles of builds were endless.
On to the pictures!
I started off on the asphalt, where all the vendor cars were, and the first thing that caught my eye was this crazy Honda Insight. That is definitely the best-looking hybrid I have ever seen!
