I have this weird thing… I don’t like driving down crazy inclines or over bridges. My palms get all sweaty, my heart races, and I get crazy nervous. It’s weird, and I cannot help it. It’s like my weird thing with the sound of crushing/scraping ice. Don’t ask… that story is for another day.
Anyway, MSNBC has this new feature called Bridge Tracker. It basically allows you to view bridges along your commute so that you can see inspection results and general info like average traffic. Look at the page showing the route from San Francisco, CA to San Rafael, CA. Look at all the bridge points that say “Functionally Obsolete”!!!! Just great MSNBC, do you want me to never drive on a bridge ever again?!
We had an earthquake today measured at 5.8 magnitude and I was only a few miles away from the epicenter. Earthquakes always get you, even if you’ve lived in Southern California your whole life. But it doesn’t get you as much as people who grew up out of state! 2 of my 3 coworkers are from Chicago so they really didn’t get what was going on. It was kind of funny but also kind of scary that I was not too concerned about it.
We really haven’t had any earthquakes this size for maybe like 10-15years? I’ve gotten used to it. Now that my family and I live on our own, it’s time to start thinking how we can earthquake-proof the things in our home, including having earthquake supplies.
Okay so I never really knew the whole story about Motorex, the company who imported and legalized Skylines in the USA. I mean, I knew the main reason why they were shut down, but I didn’t know about all the crazy drama! Eric Hsu posted an article written about the whole ordeal. It’s kind of creepy that I know some of the guys but had no idea the extent of what was going on. People have some serious dark sides… watch out! What’s your dark side? Please tell me, so I don’t have to find out from a magazine article.
You know what sucks? Paying a ton of money for something… and not seeing it for months. That’s how it’s been lately when I order wheels.
The past 4 times I’ve bought wheels, they were made to order – which is cool, because they were made specifically for me and not just sitting on a shelf somewhere. But the wait is HORRIBLE! From the time you order wheels to the time they arrive at your door is usually about 3-4 months.
Here’s what I’m currently waiting on…
For the G35 sedan: Work Varianza F2S 20×9.5, 20×10.5 My first set of dubs! The sad thing about the G35 sedan is that it’s not setup to have really deep dish wheels like the coupe. Anytime you see a G35 sedan with wheels, chances are it has pretty sad lip. The good thing about these Works is that they’ll have close to 3″ in the front and 4″ in the rear. I don’t know how! It’s just the way it is. I can’t wait to see how they look. I’m kinda nervous because the G35 is an interesting car – it’s a sporty luxury sedan – what kind of wheels do you get for that? I just went for the luxury wheels because this is the first time I can!
For the skid machine: SSR Professor SP1 17×9.5, 18×11 Man, I spent WAY TOO much time trying to figure out what wheels to get. And even when I decided, it took me too long to figure out what size and offset. For once, I’m thinking about FUNCTION when ordering wheels. I’m not going with the widest lowest offset wheels possible that will fit under my fenders. Instead I’m thinking about available tire sizes and cost, weight, and my ultimate goal – getting my car to be my desired ride height and the wheels to fit perfectly WITH my desired alignment settings. You can get almost any crazy wide low offset wheel to fit on your car, but you have to make sacrifices to certain things like ride hight and alignment. I want my car to look good AND fun to drive! I have a little suprise coming with these wheels :)
Every once in a while I go back through my old pictures and videos on my computer. Sometimes, when I can’t find what I’m looking for, I become obsessed until I find it. The video I’m posting is one of those videos… It was filmed at Rim of the World Rally in 2005. It took me forever to figure that out, because I didn’t update my journal at that time.
Here’s a video of me drifting in the “Drift Invite” competition. Nadine was nice enough to let me drive her car for the competition, because my car didn’t have a cage and she wanted me to compete since I hadn’t for such a long time. This is the Top 4 round vs Calvin Wan, since I beat Tommy Suell in the Top 16 round and then Stephan Papadakis in the Top 8 round.
In the video, you’ll see that we had a one more time run, where something happened and Calvin spun in front of me. It was such a simple section of the track that I felt okay with blinking once I passed the clipping cone – bad mistake. When I opened my eyes, Calvin’s door was right in front of me and I slammed into him with my throttle to the ground. At that moment, I thought about when I was chasing him the round earlier, he seemed a bit weird in that section of the course…
I felt so bad afterwards that I didn’t even want to try and fix the car to go back on the track. Calvin fixed his car and won the round by default, but then he went on and beat Tanner Foust to get 1st place. He was really nice and gave Nadine and I some of his winnings to fix our car even though he didn’t have to.
And that, boys and girls, is the story of why Nadine has an S15 face on her car. Because I had to fix her car afterwards! This was also my only real crash while drifting.
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