Tag: wekfest san jose

  • 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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    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.

  • Roll Out | Wekfest San Jose 2015

    Roll Out | Wekfest San Jose 2015

     Enjoy this gallery of the roll out of Wekfest San Jose!

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    Thanks again Wekfest for the award! That’ll wrap up our coverage of Wekfest San Jose, we’ll see you guys next year!

  • Roll In and Gas Out | Wekfest Roll In

    Roll In and Gas Out | Wekfest Roll In

    The roll in and set up for a car show is always interesting to see, you can see how a big convention center hall gets filled from side to side with cars and vendors. I am always thankful when a setup time for a car show isn’t before 9AM, so it seemed like today would go pretty smooth for our staging time…
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    Spotted some Honda hatches chilling in the parking lot before roll in.

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    This SPOON CRX is a work of art.

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    Slammed Odyssey from Vankulture.

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     While other people were rolling into the show, half the cars that we brought up had to burn gasoline because of 1/4 fire hazard rule….

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    Rocket Bunny FRS on CCW LM-5T and a S14 on Work Meisters rolling up together.

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    Jason Lau was nice enough to bring his slammed static IS300 to show with us.

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    Speed Element Subaru on Advan GT wheels.

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    That line to roll in..

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    Ryan is always down to show when he has the time, now his EVO is looking more colorful than ever.

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    Didn’t get to meet the owner of this IS300, but his friend Tim drove it out to show with us.

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    James Tran’s RSX Volk CE28s also showed with us.

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    Oh the perks of being bagged. No driveway is dangerous to us.

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    But hearing Jason’s IS300 scrape all the way to the staging area made me miss being static.

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    Tilted.

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    HOODRATstuff in the back.

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    Homies.

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    Our two support vehicles.

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    The calm before the storm.

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    This AIMGAIN IS250c from Texas seems to be at all the California shows.

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    Cars are scattered everywhere during staging. It has to get ugly before it becomes beautiful.

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    A close up of the S14 earlier.

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    It was finally time for us to setup and good thing we’re veterans at this because we got out in 20 minutes.

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    Vinh’s Subie ready to sit pretty for the next 48 hours.

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    Vollkommen Design Subaru rolling into the venue.

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    Roll in for the show would last all the way to the evening.

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    We were finally off to go eat at Pepper Lunch and while waiting we discovered that Hayle and Rica were cousin’s cousin’s of another mother’s cousin’s uncle related. Amazing how they look so similar! Definitely related.

     

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    Everyone getting ready to devour their food.

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    Shavi got two plates that shows you how good it is or how small the portions are..

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    That’s when Jerald realized he fucked up. He ordered a bento box for some reason..

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    Hayle excited to try Pepper Lunch for the first time because of how much we hyped it up.

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    Finally got mine and I couldn’t wait for it to cook and ate most of it pretty rare.

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    There’s only one Pepper Lunch in the United States and it’s in Milpitas. They are also the only one in the world that has garlic butter.

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    Afterwards we got some Mexican ice cream and chamangos from there we decided to go back into SF to go check out Muir woods.

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    Trees are cool and trees are cooler when they’re super tall, but Muir woods wasn’t as exciting as I thought it would be. I’m actually not sure what I was expecting, probably the monkeys from Planet of the Apes to come out and try to kill us or something. At least it was free.

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    I would go here for portrait shoots, but no one was looking pretty today or wearing HOODRATstuff.

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    It’s fun to do bad things.

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    Oh hey, Hayle.

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     This will be good photoshop material.

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    Derek contemplating on what he should buy me for dinner.

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    Hayle thinking about what to eat next.

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    Shavi from Diamond Supply doing some Diamond Exploring.

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    When the crew pose on fleek.

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    The main reason I wanted to go to SF was to eat ice cream and we finally got it at Mitchell’s ice cream.

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    Dog backpacks, now that’s new.

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    Mitchell’s sells their own ice cream in half gallons. Pretty neat.

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    Shavi approves.

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    Hayle also approves or she got hit in the eye with something and she’s trying to get it out with her thumb.

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    Even when it was cold, people were still in line to get some ice cream here.

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    What is different about Mitchell’s is that they make you get a number and then they call you up to be serviced. Actually works a lot better than a line.

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    Hayle can’t wait to eat some of Kyren’s shoulder.

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    It was finally our time to shine and of course we tried all of the flavors.

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    I actually forgot what I got, but all the flavors there are really good and the consistency of the ice cream is superb.

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    We met up with Vinh and the rest of the group and drove up to the hills of Milpitas to do some HOODRATstuff and check out the view.

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    Check back tomorrow for coverage of Wekfest!

  • Wekfest San Jose 8.10.14

    Wekfest San Jose 8.10.14

     Wekfest in Northern California has always been the show to attend to get inspiration for my own car build. Hundreds of elite car owners from the surrounding area always attend and on top of that Wekfest also screens the cars before they can even bring their car to the venue. This event is the place to be at and showing your car is a blessing within itself. I didn’t get much coverage of the show itself because I don’t own a wide angle lens yet and this year for some reason parts of the show were really cramp and made it very difficult to shoot.

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    Vendors getting a head start on preparing their booths. Vendor display is everything if you want to attract show goers to your booth.

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     MBN Mikey unloading his pristine Integra.

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     Always a pleasure to Johnne’s 5 series on Infinite Werks wheels.

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    Johnne’s sick interior, this bottle was empty by the end of the show…

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    An infinite amount of infinite wheels.

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     For the first time in forever Brendan showed at a car show with us. His car was looking mighty fine with his new SSR SP1.

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    Blood in, blood out.

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    My favorite M5 in the world only because the owner likes to tug on my penis after a hug.

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    A collection of clean cars displayed at Wekfest. Only the best of the best can show at this show. Not sure why we’re here though…

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    Ojay’s award winning Van on newly powder coated BBS RS. In my opinion, it contrasts much better with his car.

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    0 to 100 at a car show real quick.

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    Your car show isn’t a car show if it doesn’t have an RWB present.

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    3rd generation IS bagged on VIP Modulars. Rockin’ some wheels from a fully customized wheel company, I wish this car had more fitment.

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    Aired out Q45 on some Work Rezaxs.

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    Liberty Walk always goes hard. It says so on the fender.

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    Murdered out xB on SSR MS1.

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    Rabbit tuck. I think Chris uses those wheels to grate his carrots.

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    Damn, Mark’s van is finally running. Glad to see it at the show.

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    His other Volkswagen.

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    David’s Rocket Bunny needs more space for people to really enjoy it.

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    Phat take notes.

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    Keith’s IS300 made the trek up here in one piece surprisingly.

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    Gerard’s MR2 on gold VS-XX.

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    This Passat looks like the type of car to go on an adventure with.

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    One my favorite Lotus’s, I absolutely love seeing this car.

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    Not sure why there was so much space left over at the show, kinda sucks the vendor area had to be so cramped.

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    SSR MS3 look real good tucked on this G35.

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    Platinum VIP always bringing out the classic VIP cars out.

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    I heard there’s a lot of jobs out there for design.

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    Job Design looks so fucking good I want to rape it.

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    Some trance style on this TSX.

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    I think Gerald got replaced…………

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    Ray’s Integra looking pretty gangster.

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    Chivas on newly built Rotiform TMBs.

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    Engine bay meticulous as always.

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    Less colors would do great for this G35.

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    Vankulture bringing out all the soccer dads.

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    This is Amuse wide body s2000 looks pretty gangster on Volk CE28s and a Voltex GT wing.

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     A 9th generation Civic done right.

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    Another car that needs space for attendees to enjoy.

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    8th generation Mugen RR Civic rocking the new CCW D110.

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    Surprised to see non imports and more old school classic cars at Wekfest. Definitely a good change of pace from all the imports.

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    Another FD2 converted Civic on CCWs.

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    John Fob’s GTR needs to be one color.

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    This all motor H series EK looks pretty gnarly. It probably had the most space to demonstrate the craziness of this build.

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    Everybody be rocking SSR or CCWs at this show.

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    When you think you have a bad ass car then you see this car and it makes you feel like shit.

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    J’s Racing everything.

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    Thanks Reg for showing with us!

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    Way fucking cooler than that one E36 that was in our crew. Not joking.

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    What I said previously about thinking you have a cool car…

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    Porsche game killed.

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    Robros Customs slowly making progress on their GTR with some coilovers and Rotiform wheels.

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    Some of the best products to use on your car. Buy it here…

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    Every single person here brought a car…

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    Sick Elites shirt from Wekfest, sad I wasn’t able to get one because of the crazy line.

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     Thanks to our supporters for always coming through and grabbing some merch!

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    Krizchelle rockin out new HOODRATstuff beanie. Unfortunately already sold out.

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     Once brothers now one is faster and the other is way lower…

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    I can’t believe Jimmy’s Civic made it up here at this height.

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     Looks like people are waiting for a pick up game of soccer.

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     I want one but it would not fit in my parking space at home.

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     Elissa Alva’s booth busy as always.

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     Why is it every time I ask these guys if they want a photo together Jimmy goes in for a kiss?

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     Nimo got jealous…

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    Congrats to Keith for winning Best IS of the festival!

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     The crew coming home with three trophies. Thanks Wekfest and Pure VIP for the awards! We go to car shows not for the awards, but to show the world what our cars look like outside of social media and mostly to interact with people who enjoy cars.

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     I wanted to get photos of the show cars in a natural habitat like on the streets. Cars always look a thousand times better when they’re rolling. I joined the many car show attendees outside of the venue to watch everyone roll out.

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    When your midlife crises and your reality meet.

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    This is probably the sickest GS in the United States right now.

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     Where did the front bumper go?

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    Now that is a good girlfriend, she had to walk out of the venue and a couple of blocks to bring her boyfriend’s front bumper to him.

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     Well I hoped you enjoyed this coverage and there are always more photos in the gallery. Thank you to Wekfest for allowing us to be at the show and thank you to everyone who came by to support us. Sadly, I think this will be the last time we’ll be at the Norcal Wekfest event. The cost and stress of everything doesn’t seem worth it. We will still be a big supporter of Wekfest and attend the local events.  Thank you for reading!

    -NGUASS