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http://media2.big-boys.com/racedrift.wmv Doesn't look easy.

Is there any way to save that video? Tried DAP but it only saved this tiny 66 file....crappy.

I like unatural, tall, thin and hot Minmei just fine.

Wow, sponsorship from the Tire Rack...must be nice to get free/cheap tires.

Me at a SFR event at Oakland coliseum last November. I love RX-7s.

Well, until I crashed my first one, I wasn't:

Here's an older Posrche Turbo (930?) that I left behind....I was kind of surprised it coudn't pass me, let alone keep up. The M3 in the foreground is the '94 Europ-spec I was talking about a few pages before. The driver is amazing on the street. We called him Jacky Schumacher (but's he's Chinese) because of his love of Ferraris. Back when we were younger and way more stupid, he was driving the silver NSX (Mine now). A group of us used to race on the highways, the mountain roads etc and he was able to get ahead of some pretty amazing cars (a midley modded C5 Vette for one). He was untouchable on the street, but on the track I took him. Luck? Faster car? Haha, my superior learning curve? Probably the first.

It started raining half-way through the event.....that's when I got over my fear of driving at speed in the wet. I couldn't drive faster than 50/km hr after I wrote off my first NSX so my friend recommended I start going to these events, (often with instructors) to get over my fear. It worked.....now I'm just scared to go over 260km/hr

Anybody have pictures of their rides at some kind of event? Autocross, drag. track, drift?

This model needs to be archived somewhere in Macrossworld's main page.

Is there anyplace that all Box arts are avail for download for wallpapers?

To tell you the truth, I really can't appreciate the difficulty in shoe-horning that engine into my car. According to my friend that built the car for me, he went through hell. A lot of cutting, reinforcing, and improvising with various parts such as using a VW radiator, swapping the chunk of factory pulley for a smaller aftermarket one, and even as far as getting a US-spec front grill. Apparently even the factory exhaust manifold was too large so he had to go with a set of headers he had lying around. As far as rice is concerned, well, I tried my very best to keep the car looking like a stock '76 hatchback. The car is actually a '78 but I got the older '76 hood, grill, and tail lights. The only thing that's not factory visually is the wheels, steering wheel, and muffler. The RS emblems are kind of ricey since the RS model never came to North America, but I bet my car's faster and better handling than any RS produced by Honda. I even had the car painted an original factory color instead of going with something else. Almost made a huge mistake by painting it championship white like the type-Rs. Now that I think about it, I almost did the riciest thing possible......a '76 type-R.....oh the horror. I had a set of red Recaros line up and even a custom CF hood, but thank God I came to my senses.

Here in Canada, technically, every car is an import since we don't acutally make any cars....well, that's not true, we do manufature some Hondas and Chryslers out east....does that mean the Civic is considered a Domestic? Haha....confusing. Your paint looks nice and shiny from the pictures, is it really bad up close?

Geez, don't you people ever sleep? Haha, it's almost 3am where I am...what the hell am I doing up still...... All prices quoted in Canadian dollars. The car itself cost $600. For everything else, there's credit card: Brake job was $1500 (new rotors, front and rear calipers from '95 Civic Si, custom SS brake lines, bolt spacing conversion, new axels), motor and tranny $1200 (1600 cc single-cam VTEC from Acura EL.....think only avail in Canada), intake + filter $50, ECU that came with some sort of chip $200, Mugen headers - free, 2.5 in exhaust $100, fuel pump $100, new clutch and flywheel $500, underdrive pulley $200, M.I.T (made in Taiwan) muffler $100, vinyl dye $30 (interior was a hideous blue before), Integra seats $150, HIDs $400, new carpet $100, Panosport wheels $300, new tires $500, paint $2500, and finally the labour (including custom welding) to do all of the above $1500. It wasn't supposed to be like this actually. Originally, I just wanted a winter beater, but the brakes went so I had to get them done, but ended up doing way more than necessary at the time. Then, I really *ucked up the tranny. Here's the short version of the story.....even though the car was a 2 spead auto, I liked to play around with the heel-toe, throw it into neutral, blip the gas and dump it into D1 when diving into a turn or corner. Well, I wasn't very good at the whole Automatic transmission thing, so I threw it into reverse once at 60 km/hr. You think I learned my lesson? No, it happened a second time about a month later. The car bled tranny fluid all over the road as it sat motionless. Got myself a new motor and a real 5 speed tranny and in it went.....but I figured while the motor's out, might as well paint it. I was going to paint the car myself as well, with just a couple of cans of spray paint, but it was too much work so I said screw it and one thing led to another and I found myself burning up money left-right and center. Note to all of you with obsessive-compulsive nature.....NEVER BUY A BEATER or your wallet will regret it. You'll end up tinkering around with it and the next thing you know, you're lining up for welfare checks.

I had to get HIDs for it....such a jackass thing to do: More pics here: http://www.nsxprime.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40613

It's not really an RS, but it's way faster!

Never get tired of waxing her.

shiny paint is a beautiful thing.

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Dude, get over yourself. Just because you've done a few track days and drift events does not make you a "road racer," ditch the ego. Are you even reading what you're typing? I don't understand if you're trying to brag, or just being completely naive. Dude, that car sounds awesome. You have any pictures? My parents brought me hoem from the hospital in an 82 Civic Hatch so I've always had an affinity for the older ones, and always thought it'd be cool to put a decent motor in one. Yeah, I posted some pictures here a while ago, but I couldn't find them with the search function, so here they are again.

a) I signed up on this forum to be a crusader of truth and justice to car prejudice everywhere b) WTF is macross That being said, Yellowlightman is right on except I think the joke is that drifting, because of its subjective nature, is 'the FIGURE SKATING' of motorsports. And I figure its probably closer to the 'Barney on Ice' end of ice skating. In the Olympic stuff, at least people get emotional and stuff. Anyways-- I would like to preface this with saying I have no problem with organized drifting. I think D1 is an excellent addition to the motorsports scene since anything that helps motorsports grow is probably a positive thing, and tail-out driving is a whole lot of fun. If I was to go on and say "drifting sucks, you suck," I'd be no better then all the pencil-dick mouth breathers that make fun of 'parking lot racing.' What is it that bores you about autocross? Is it the fact that autocrossers are forced to deal with turns at a density SEVEN TIMES GREATER then formula one racers? Or maybe the fact that its timed, and therefor it exposes your inadaquacies as a driver? Either one works for me. I've driven on 'real tracks' too. Sears Point, actually--one of the most technical (club racer's words, not mine) in the United States. I had about two years (bout 45 events ) of autocross experience under my belt before I hit that gorgeous slithering pavement and it took me about 6.4 seconds to exceed this mythical 60mph barrier you speak of. I went on to hit 110mph in the 'esses,' and passed all cars in the beginner groups and all cars in the intermediate groups. One was a Porsche Turbo. Does that prove anything? Nope. Do I enjoy saying I passed a Porsche Turbo in a stock-motored Street-Touring X prepared '95 325is? Oh hell yeah! Not only did I pass the Porsche Turbo, I PASSED MY G'DDAM INSTRUCTOR on our last session out. She was in a Miata. Did it give me a big head? Nope. She was having allignment issues, and I know deep down she is a far superior driver then myself. In fact, shes driven ITS FC's for a couple years, done a few endurance races (ITB Mk2 GTi in the 25 hour Thunderhill is her most recent long-hour race), and currently has entered a sponsorship to drive a Grand-Am BMW Z3 Coupe. Serious stuff. And you know what she has said about autocrossers? I got my 'drift' on that track day, as well. The first few sessions were on a soaking wet track. Water plus tire build up equals an extremely slippery surface, and more then once I found my car 20-40 degrees sideways, giving more then one full turn of opposite lock to having to catch it. Where did I learn the car-control skills to allow me to keep the car going in the direction I wanted to? You guessed it, autocross. So... I don't know which Initial-D-thumping friends you are talking to when you guys make jokes about autocrossers being the grannies of the track world, because its a stereotype I have *never* heard before. Anyways, just think about what you are writing and who might be reading it. I doubt you are as ignorant as you sound, and you just figured nobody would call you on it. I come from the San Francisco Region of the SCCA, a region notorious for creating more national champions then *any region in the United States.* We take this very serious, and the thought of some drifting punk thinking he is better then me because he is good at losing control of his car makes my blood boil. Well said. There are too many people here that hate. They hate what other people do, they hate what other people have, some hate imports, and some hate American cars. I have no idea what their so pissed off about. Who gives a $hit what other people have or like. There's no reason to trash it. This particular thread is about cars, and all the bad things we can do with them. I have no idea why some people get all bent out of shape if someone likes to drift, or if others like to put Bling-Blings on their cars. So much hostility. This thread started of really great, but it's turning into "The things you like suck, and here's why....." It's kind of sad that people post something, and then they're instantly on trial and have to defend what kind of car they like, or what particular motorsports they prefer. Drifting isn't for me, but for the dude that likes drifting, if it makes you happy, power to you man. At least there's something out there for you that you like. I want to try it myself one of these days, but I imagine MR and FF cars are hard to drift so I'll put it off for another day. Autocross is wicked fun. I've done it, I liked it. I gotta try it with my latest project. What do you guys think about the equipment: first gen 1978 Honda Civic hatchback (weighs in at about 1400lbs), 1600cc single-cam VTEC engine with all the bells and whistles (puts the hp at about 135 or so....that's a lot more than the stock 57 hp), double the braking power, coil-over suspension, and half-decent tires. In daily-driving mode, all the mods have increased the fun factor by quite a bit. But when what it boils down to for me personally isn't the competition at all. It's how much fun I can have in my own car, and that's all that matters......just me and my machine (as long as I'm not running others off the road). When I'm cutting through the chicanes (SP?), looking for the perfect apex, tires licking the candy canes, diving into the turns with my brakes glowing, then ripping down the long straight at Mission Raceway and top out at 200km/hr, I get high and I'm in my own little world.

S15 front end fits on your car right? I know, it's been done to death, but it still looks good.

Autocross is generally still pretty cheap isn't it? I haven't gone for years, but have discovered something way more fun....track events. There's a local club that hold these at whatever track is closeby (Mission Raceway, Seattle International Raceway, or Portland International Raceway). For $200 CAD, you get 100 minutes of track time. It's well worth saving up for.

Sorry to see your Silvia all messed up. Sometime last year, people were posting pics of their crashed cars......can't seem to find that thread though....too bad, there were a couple of real good ones. Did you change the engine also?

You need some Macross stickers on it now....somehow it makes me think of Max