SPEED HERO Blog

I realized I hadn't done a follow up to "The Beginnings", so here's a small catch up to current. I'm not living in a trailer on the side of a mountain about 15 minutes North of Victoria, British Columbia, and there has been a fair number of cars since getting here! But we'll pick up where we left off in the beginnings post. Treat this as part 2, if you haven't read #1, click the link above first. The next car was an 1985 FB RX7 GSL. There's a big story and write up with it: HERE.

People often ask my advice on how to improve their cars for certain types of motorsport, and with my expertise in doing things for cheap/free my opinion seems to matter to them as I've gone damn fast. My speed to cost ratio is damn good, and from this I've devised my own approaches to motorsport to remain competitive. This the first in a series of performance related discussions and if your wondering, this is step 1. Begin here, as this is your base, we will continue with basics and work towards more complex concepts and ideals.

Great video. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=effSd3oJI9c]

As of recent I've been crazy busy planning a business trip overseas. That's correct, the guy that lives under the true definition of 'broke' is somehow planning on hitting Japan again. It takes a lot of organization to get to other places in the world for free, but well, it can be done. One of the cars I'm looking to see this time I'm over there is the little known Corolla 2, or more correctly Corolla II. This is a bit of a confusing car, I mean,...

This may be old news to some of you but for others, the DMCC event in Victoria has been cancelled. I was having trouble getting concrete information and I'm not sure how it happened but it's done. Instead of drifting at Western Speedway this weekend, you can go to Blue Sky music festival and enjoy Cochrane, Colin James, Vince Vaccaro and a bunch of other music that makes me sick to my ass. Damn.