Replacing the Starter on My Own 180SX Type X Project
Working on your vehicle comes about primarily for two reasons. One, you want to upgrade or improve something in your vehicle and two there is something you have to fix in order for it to keep working. For me it was the latter reason that forced me to replace my busted OEM starter before I […]
QV’s S13 240sx Convertible Build Intro
I’ve been through a few revisions of various S13’s (coupes and convertibles) for daily driving, street tuning fun, hpde’s, and autocrossing. At some point, it seemed personally inefficient to try to build a street-driven seriously competitive autocross car. While searching online for 5-speed swaps (yes, I was racing an automatic turbo s13 convertible, haha) and […]
FRSport’s Coverage of the 2013 Top Drift Competition
Our 4th of July weekend ended up occurring the same weekend that Top Drift held its 3rd round of competition. We were there supporting all the guys participating in the competition and in our contingency programme as well. The whole weekend stayed at about 100 degrees farenheit and taking images during the practice sessions really […]
Top Drift Round 3 @ Streets of Willow
Round 3 of Top Drift would be at Willow Springs International Raceway, on their Streets of Willow course. This was a new track for Top Drift to be judging on, so everyone came in not knowing what section was to be used for competition. They’ve been here before for All Star Bash, and […]
OS Giken SoPac Super Regional June 2013 @ El Toro: The five-dollar heartbreak
To start, here’s a description of the OS Giken Super Regional (from the event flyer): “The Southern Pacific Super Regional Autocross Championship is a two day national style solo autocross event consisting of three runs per day, per competitor. Finishing order will be determined by combining a competitor’s fastest score from Saturday’s course with their […]
Amazing Imagery From The 2013 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb
A few of our close staff members and friends visited the beautiful state of Colorado to attend the 191st running of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb held on June 29th, 2013. Essentially this event is a Time Attack event of sorts with the exception that the drivers have to drive up into the mountain, […]