Long overdue....

BIG lack of updates to the blog recently. not from a lack of activity but from being HECTIC for the past few months. I started a new job so I no longer work at Honda, and now have weekens free, although I seem to be busier on the weekends now than I was when I worked them, which is bizarre. So here is a quick summary of whats been happening.....

Got asked to design some new clothing for Driftworks and gladly obliged. The design they chose was originally to be used on a cap, however they liked it so much they have used it on their hoodies and mugs so far. And something very special is in the pipeline I hear!

I was then approached to design the 2010 British Drift Championship apparel and merchandise. I submitted several designs and most were chosen. The initial line-up has been really well recieved, with the brief being 'more fashion, less memorabilia'. There will be ongoing work throughout the season with the BDC. I have chosen to brand future design-work under the 'havefun' brand, hopefully this should make my work more recognisable and mean I can come up with some cool collaborations in the future.

I formed alliance with a couple of guys I've known from the car scene for a while and we decided to start up our own drift-blog site. We launched last weekend and it has already receieved 8000 hits in 4 days, which we are really pleased about! You can check it out at Drifted. We managed to strike a deal with the BDC so now all BDC competitors cars were two drifted.com stickers on the wing mirrors, which makes for great publicity!

Okishima Program blew up following our Spring Meet, we got posted on Speedhunters and Hellaflush. Word is that there is potential future work with HF and also Motormavens as a spin off from this. Can't wait!

So thats about it for now. Be sure to check out Drifted.com and join our Facebook fanpage!

People in London Town

Some more shots from JDM Allstars 2009 Wembley Edition.

Wembley Wall Rubbing

I found these photos on an old memory card and realised I'd never done anything with them. Just a few shots of the 2009 JDM Allstars Event at Wembley.

JDM insertion

Holy blog revival!

Who loves stickers?




I'm sorry, they fell on their side.

Japspeed S15

Took a trip over to GarageRippleDrift in sleepy Spalding, Lincs last night to get some tyres put on the Origin wheels. I caught Paul Smith and his Dad come-Chief Mechanic Roger putting some finishing touches to his Japspeed Maxxis Tyres S15.

The car started out life as a Spec-S non-turbo Automatic model but was treated to the SR20DET and manual swap by Mitch at Driftgarage during his brief ownership of the car.

The transition from good base-model drift car to full on purpose-built track car, including paintwork has all taken place inside Paul and Roger's modest garage out the back of Roger's house. Note in the picture above the SERIOUS amount of steering lock, this has been achieved by using Japspeed steering arms and ends and some very trick GPSports knuckles which allow for adjustment of the steering pick-up points on the hubs. The front arches have been cut out and 'tubbed' to make the most of this generous extra lock.

As I was visiting Roger was working on the finishing touches of the wiring loom which he assured me was 'just wiring the wipers up'. I'm not sure if he was joking or not, that amount of wires is enough to send me running! The interior is simple and purposeful, a pair of Corbeau seats and powder-coated white Fabricage occupy the main cabin space, meanwhile the stock S15 dash has been modified to accomodate ProSport gauges, which look almost factory!

The car now sports clean white paintwork, a departure from last year's standard Nissan red. Japspeed have been supporting Paul for the last two seasons, I am looking forward to finally seeing the car drifting alongside Danny Ayles' and Shane Lynch's Japspeed S15s in Sunday's BDC Team Event at Norfolk Arena. Danny and Shane's cars are both running high-power RB25 engines from the R33 Skyline so I hope Paul can keep up!

Something tells me he will be able to! The piece-de-resistance takes centre stage when you lift the EPRacing carbon bonnet. The engine is a 2500cc 1JZ lifted from a Toyota Soarer. The turbo is a GT3076R mounted to a Japspeed top-mount manifold and the combination produce 474bhp and 440lb/ft torque, more than enough to chase down the other Japspeed S15s. Sadly more than enough to twist the prop earlier on in the month at Prodrift Round 3 also!

The car is finished externally with some nice touches, red/white rear lenses, carbon bootlid and DMax wide fenders complete the picture.

If you want to see the S15 in action be sure to pop over to Norfolk Arena at the weekend for Round 4 of the British Drift Championship - two days of full on action! Be there Saturday from 6pm for Round4 and Sunday from 10am for the Team Drift Competition!

What it is....

Just spotted this on DW. Great video and great music. Check out www.fatlace.com and Mos Def's new Album - The Ecstatic.

BEST DRIFT VIDEO EVAAAR

THE FALKEN BRITISH DRIFT CHAMPIONSHIP - ROUND 3 LYDDEN HILL from The British Drift Championship on Vimeo.

We Are Drift

wearedrift.com

Christmas Day

Christmas Day was moved in 2009 to 23rd June. Well, it was in my world anyway as it was the day when I FINALLY, after 8 months or so of waiting, got to collect my stuff from Japan.

Bright and breezy I jumped in the car and made the 45 minute journey down the A1 from Peterborough to St Neots to pick up the hire van. I then started the LONG and BORING journey down the A1, M25 and the seemingly endless trip across the country on the M4 to Ninja Tune Factory in Newport, South Wales - where my stuff was being stored.

Three and something hours later I arrive in Newport at NTF's new workshop to be greeted by Lionel, owner of NTF and Julian from Severnside/Driving Sports Pro.

Lionel was in the process of tweaking the tuned SR for this weekend's EDC round at Brands Hatch.

Julian is also sponsored by Origin so the car wears full Origin Agressive aero and Type-II fenders all round. It also rocks a carbon D-Max bonnet, B's Factory spoiler, RYO exhaust and Work XD9s. No fake parts here.

Interior is function-based. A pair of red Bride recliners occupy the BRIGHT red cabin - Kawabata from Driving Sports Japan mixes the colour himself and keeps the ingredients top secret!

The engine is a stroked 2.1 SR fully built with a Neprec head and TD06-25g turbo. It was originally built for drag running 650bhp but has been de-tuned for drift to just 500bhp. Is that all?!

You may notice the drawing on the dash of the gear layout. Naturally this sort of power would make cheese of a standard SR gearbox so this car runs a Trust/Greddy dogbox. £5k + VAT to you or I.

The PS13 wasn't the only nice metal at NTF - this AE86 runs a high compression turbo'd 4AG. You may recognise this car from AE86 battle in the Touge Heroes' DVD.

Dan Joyce from Dirty Sanchez' Datsun pick-up was also at NTF getting an engine transplant - look forward to seeing this done!

So after nosing around and chatting for a while I loaded the van up with my stuff and set off home.

Just a few pictures of my stuff - two Origin Stylish front bumpers, just incase I break one.

Origin Type-II +50mm fenders, same as Julian's car.

Origin DNA02 wheels - 17x9.5+15. I've decided to order some 18"s of the same size to run a 17/18 stagger.

So this is how my spare room looks now - much to the disapproval of Naomi, my understanding better half! My full order included -

• Origin Stylish full aero
• Origin Stylish front bumper spare
• Origin Type-I front fenders
• Origin Type-II rear fenders
• Origin window spoiler
• Supermade boot lip spoiler
• 8 x 17x9.5+15 Origin DNA02 wheels in white
• Work Rezax as pictured below

These were a nice suprise from the shipment. I bought them unseen from Yahoo Auctions Japan and when they arrived they turned out to be near MINT, plus they had decent tread on the tyres!

Thats a 245 on the right on the 350Z! On the left is one of the 18x12.5J rear wheels with a 275 streeeetched on!

These are for sale for SERIOUS interested parties. No low-ball offers. The specs are -

18x11J+13 - 255's front

18x12.5J+19 - 275's rear

E-Mail me for more details.

BIG thankyou to Origin Japan for their help and SKAY Japan for sorting out the shipping for me and their continued support. Thank you to Julian at Severnside for shipping and Lionel at NTF for storage too!

I can crack on with fitting my parts now - stay tuned!

Who wants to see some dish?

Work Rezax 18x11J+13 18x12.5J+19.

And the tyres?

255 front, 275 rear.

Thats a 245 on the right.

They are for sale for serious parties!