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[mestizo]

Looks good bro, im glad things are panning out for you!

THanks bro, the car is coming along really great now. I have a small update, not really pertaining to the car but to one of my sponsors. Loud Liquid Graphix is no longer a sponsor of mine, basically because my freind CJ who was running the graphix side of Loud Liquid quit. So when he left so did my vinyl graphix, however CJ is in the process of getting his own shop and print machine right now. So I still have a graphix sponsor, but the sponsor does not have a name yet lol. Anways thats about it for now.

[Sideways~S14]

Awesome man we still need some vid of this beast specially some tandem runs

[Jonnie Fraz]

WooooOooooo! Got to ride along for a couple of passes last night before the tires went away. Wow big difference. Seem that the bar has been raised a bit...Nice drivin buddy. With tires only lasting a weekend this could get a little pricey...lol

[mestizo]

Yup lol tires will be my crack hahahahaha. But again it's a small price to pay to the drift gods for stepping up my game to the next level.

[mestizo]

Well I finally put together the footage I have of the last couple of weeks, I'm still learning the SR20 but I think it looks decent. I wish we had footage of the really good tandem runs that Andrew and I did, but o well this will have to do.

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http://mestiso.net/m...tizo-3-2008.wmv

[Jonnie Fraz]

Very nice vid! You can really see you bounceing off the rev limiter...nice flame! The last shot is great with the sparks...Yep those ones are done.

[Sideways~S14]

Most awsomest vid ever and i havent even watched it yet!!!!!!!

[Sideways~S14]

Watched it awsome video i was there prolly 3 days ago and then today also saw the tracks and was like haha that was hella rob next time you guys go sliding lmk im down for some video taping of you guys and just to see some good sliding

[MASTR Z]

damn nice sliding !! makes me wish i had more tires to burn through... very soon...

[mestizo]

Thanks for compliments everyone! Matt you need to come out more often, I know with the new shop things are hectic but man u still need to make time to have some fun on the weekend.

On another note I think I will have to upgrade my front brakes. I didn't think it was going to be needed but now that I have the SR I realized that my stock brakes are not enough for the how fast the car is now. So I will prolly pick up some Q45 calipers and rotors some time in the future.

[RicerX]

Its turning into a beast! Man I hope we meet soon, I wanna see what real drifting is like.

[Copilot]

Thanks for compliments everyone! Matt you need to come out more often, I know with the new shop things are hectic but man u still need to make time to have some fun on the weekend.

On another note I think I will have to upgrade my front brakes. I didn't think it was going to be needed but now that I have the SR I realized that my stock brakes are not enough for the how fast the car is now. So I will prolly pick up some Q45 calipers and rotors some time in the future.

This shop wouldnt happen to be by european body shop is it? And they have an older skyline in it?

[Jonnie Fraz]

This shop wouldnt happen to be by european body shop is it? And they have an older skyline in it?

Um...Yep.

[SALTiNE]

Sick Ass video!!!! Plus I like how you had the editing of stopping the film to give the shoutouts of Andrew and Brandon. I hope when I recorded it came out decent for my 1st time. As for that shop, what's the name of it?? Cause I know Andrew Kip just opened a shop over by Thomas's shop. called Driven Authority. LoL and Matt, my friend Joey sent me a pic of the skyline outside your shop and he's like yeah that's at my friend Matt's shop. . .and I'm like the Matt with the TT z32 black and rims!?!? LoL he was like OMG how'd you know him!?!?

[mestizo]

Kip's place is right next to Matt's Garage. Basically they are the same place but Matt runs the garage and Kip runs his business in the office right next to it.

[SALTiNE]

LoL really?? i cant believe it was that hard for my friend to tell me. Jeeze,a ctually he still hasnt told me the name of the shop. So Matt and Kip business partners?? Kip runs the business front and Matt runs the garage??

[Sideways~S14]

LoL really?? i cant believe it was that hard for my friend to tell me. Jeeze,a ctually he still hasnt told me the name of the shop. So Matt and Kip business partners?? Kip runs the business front and Matt runs the garage??

where is this garage that everyone so speaks of i remember gettin matts card awhile back at a td event

[mestizo]

It's on Auburn between Myrtle and Orange Grove, just look for the white R32 Skyline out front or a bunch of 300Z's.

[SALTiNE]

LoL that's pretty much kinda how I found it. I saw Mason's R32 and then like 10 Z32's and I knew I was in the right place!! Hye, what's an easier way to talk to Jonnie about 1 of his power braces??

[mestizo]

Small update... My car has never felt so dam good while sliding as it has the past few weeks! I am really happy with it but still I want more! LOL

So with that being said I ordered up some Battle Version FLCA adjusters, this way I can widen the front end of my car and hopefully get rid of some of the typical S13 understeer issues. Plus I'll be able to get more angle with the arms extended!!! MORE ANGLE IS GOOD! Now all I have to do is find a decent aligment shop, so I can finally adjust my caster too.

Also I decided that my stock brakes were not cutting it, they were fine when I had the stock KA. However after doing the SR swap I realized that my car really needed some better brakes, simply because it gets up and goes so fast now. I tried to slow down after doing a lil high speed run and yea... it wasn't a good thing. So I decided to go with the Q45 brake upgrade, I had Andrew grab some calipers from a 1990 Q45 at the yard and then I ordered up some drilled/slotted rotors with PBR ULT brake pads. My car should have no more stopping problems now!