I love meeting new people from other countries that share the same passion for drifting & Corolla's as I do. Today I met Tomasz Olech from Sacramento, California who's been in the drift scene for about as long as I have and drives a Sr20 powered Trueno Coupe.
It was awesome to meet someone from such a different scene and discuss all things drift. I also took him for a run around some of our local mountains in the Corolla.
Great to meet you Tomasz, cheers for coming for a run, and i hope to hear from you soon!
I took a photo of my ze today as i haven't got a good one yet..
4agze's are still ugly as fuck, but I'm pretty happy with how it is looking at the moment.
Ideally i would like to have the engine bay painted either the same colour as the car or a nice gloss white, and i also want to get rid of those ugly orange and blue silicon connections... So gross
I have a soft spot for well constructed videos with good music that generally inspire me to do something.
I found this vid on Kenny's Blog - http://hellla.blogspot.com/
I have only been snowboarding once in my life, and it would be something close to 8 years ago.
On top of teasing my already aggressive yearning to go to Japan, this video just makes me really want to go snowboarding...
You have probably guessed by now its not me...
Found this link on E7 club of one of my all time favorite and hard to track ke70's.
Strangely i have seen footage/pictures of this car in the very matt colour red that it is in this video, however i have also seen alot of shots of it with a very candy coloured red in the sunlight.
I would love to hit up Mobara, the gze would eat it up!
There hasn't been nearly enough of it lately, alot of this has to do with money as well as time.
Beleive it or not this is probably the least amount of drifting i have been doing in the last couple of years. Once i get stuck back into i though there will be plenty of photos and footage to go around. Hopefully we can get all the boys up the for another MM track day some time soon.
In the mean time here's a photo of my car from the first year i had it, circa 2005
You might also notice this was taken by Luke Huxham of http://hashiriyaexports.com/ Who has been living in Japan for the last couple of years, so this really was taken a long time ago lol
...Well, I'm not... But two of my good friends are; Beau and Aaron.
I went over to Beau's today as he is busy getting his 32 ready for the Raceline Drift in Tamworth. For those that don't know Tamworth is almost 8 hours away from where we are, gotta be dedicated.
Anyway, Seeing as Beau is leaving this Tuesday for J Land i figured i would get some shots of his car while he was working on it.
I've had Lucky's blog in my friends List for a while now, but he has recently started a new idea that when asked i said i would be happy to be a part of.
So far its looking to be a build page for individual Corolla owners. Anything E chasis that drifts, as the site suggests.
I love the idea that people can reach people in other countries at the click of the button.
I've found it very cool how people can find information on cars owned by other people in other countries, and so far all the stuff i have seen posted about my car has been in English speaking countries...
I find it very cool that someone has posted pics and vids about my car despite the language barrier, if they do happen to read english and get the link to this, thank you very much guys!!
Back in 2005, there wasn't much in way of inspiration for ke70 drivers. I have always had a big passion for Ae86's, so that had alot to do with it, but one particular Japanese ke70 always gave me the inspiration to make my car what it is today.
I don't have much knowledge, pics or info on this car... infact, this is it. But Just seeing it made me fall in love with the ke70 design and i knew i wanted my car to look this awesome.
Any Australian's that are reading this, I'm sure you will remember Drift Battle Magazine. I miss that magazine, there was so much cool stuff from Japan! I found this in one of their issues with photos from Mobara.
I also watched a RaceFactory Dvd that had about 5 seconds of this car in it, i love watching it!
Here is one video by shibadogworks i have found on youtube of the car at Mobara circuit.
If anyone, has more footage, pics, info on this car i would love to see it!!!
Took an awesome shot of Josh's 90 last night. I came over to hang out with him and Big Bird while they were working on their cars. Teagan (bird), was on her way to changing two wheels on her cressida, while josh was doing some diff work.
Josh was also kind enough to donate his coupe's steering rack for my 70 which is buggered from years of use. This is now steering rack #3.
I thought this was a pretty cool shot of the coupe's bay also
For the last three days i have been busting my arse attending lectures & taking notes at my first week of uni. Consequently, not much has been going on here.
So, i thought you might like to check this out as it entertained me for a couple of minutes. Enjoy!
Click on the it to read the whole thing - Good clean humour lol....
