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Taniguchi’s HKS Aristo

June 30, 2008 No comments

Last week, Logs was talking to me about pictures that HKS posted on their blog about the new intercooler setup on Taniguchi’s drift Aristo.

Apparently, they often drive the 700hp car in super hot weather and keeping the engine cool is a problem. Instead of going with a v-mount setup, they went a different route. They separated the traditional front-mounted intercooler into 2 individual side-mounted intercoolers. This allows the radiator to receive 100% (maybe 95% because of the oil cooler) of the air passing through the center of the bumper and the intercoolers to receive 100% of the air passing through the sides of the bumper. The intercoolers are also mounted at an angle, which is supposed to help with allowing the air to pass through more efficiently while the car is drifting.

Turbo V6s have been doing this for a long time, but for other reasons… this is the first time I’ve ever heard of it being done for cooling reasons. It’s cool, I think… and possibly much cheaper than fabricating a v-mount setup. Has HKS started a new trend? We’ll see!

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We are full.

June 27, 2008 No comments

Recently, I’ve been IN LOVE with the taste of basil. For me, it was an acquired taste – I thought it had such a strong alien herby flavor but something just clicked one day.

Last night I made a dish with some shell pasta, mozzarella, basil, parmesan cheese, sauce made of tomatoes and chicken stock, and meatballs made from romano cheese, ground chicken, italian parsley, panko breadcrumbs. Italian food reminds me a lot of Chinese food in that many dishes are just different combinations of the same ingredients.

It was pretty good… and we were all full. But not as full as Elise.

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Team Orange in the UK

June 27, 2008 No comments

If you do not already know, Kumakubo and Tanaka have decided to enter the European Drift Championship (EDC) this year. Their first event was at Silverstone… check out this great video:

SILVERSTONE DRIFT TEASER

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Hoooot pockets!

June 23, 2008 No comments

Getting tired of crap I hear on the radio these days, I decided to listen to AOL Radio on the bottom left hand corner of my AIM buddy list. There’s a lot of great music on there – check out the Classic Hip-Hop and the ’90s Hip-Hop radio channels.

On one of the comedy channels I heard a comic named Jim Gaffigan talking about Hot Pockets. Funny guy!

Turns out, he jokes A LOT about food. Here’s another video that had me laughing by my self in my office:
Part 1:

Part 2:

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Jon Sibal

June 10, 2008 No comments

So I’ve recently found my old friend Jon Sibal on the internet – not that he’s ever LEFT the internet, it’s just that we kind of lost touch over the years, as he got married and I got married and got into drifting and stuff. Anyways, Jon has always been a really impressive artist, being heavily involved as an inker for some big name comic books (here’s an example of his work). Recently, he’s been doing a lot of impressive automotive photoshops where he’ll take a photo of a stock car, and somehow transforms it into a scene from a movie.

Here’s what he did for a Scion competition (which he won):

Scion XD – Shell Shocked by *jonsibal on deviantART

Well I was just browsing and admiring his work and this totally jumped out at me. He made a portrait of his wife using words that he associates with her. I was so blown away by this portrait, which is a pretty big deal because I’m always so amazed at his work anyway. What an awesome job, Jon! I just had to share with everybody. Build a studio to showcase your talent already!

More than Words by *jonsibal on deviantART

Visit Jon’s diviantART site where he posts his recent works.

Or, you can go to his blog and read him ramble on and on about European cars that break down 3 years after you buy them and are worth the same amount as used Acuras.

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