Fairlady Love pt1

I've never owned a Nissan but if I ever did get one it'd be a Fairlady Z model.
This Z31 is probably the nicest I've ever seen, retro styling at its finest !

F20Civic?

I came across this amazingly unique swap some time back, an F20C from an S2000 swapped into an EG hatch.

This reminds me of my first car, an EG hatchback which at the time I wanted to get rid of for an FR as fast as possible.
We were all into drifting, and the idea that FR cars were the best. (Initial D might have something to do with that).

Too bad I didnt know much about swaps and Honda's back in highschool, my car was rust free and was a perfect candidate for a B16, B18 or H22 swap.

There are a crazy number of possibilities, like Hasport's newest, a J series V6 swap.

I've since come to realize that FF cars have some very good uses both on and off the track,
Hasport blows my mind!

Stratotech Park

Last summer I ran with a group in Edmonton called P1 HPDE on Stratotech Park Raceway.
I'd been wanting to run on Stratotech for awhile but wasn't sure if I should run with the racing school I had attended before
or try to find a different group of people to run with.

P1 is all about Time Attack and they ended up being an amazing set to run with.

As I'd been to Stratotech before to watch drifting back in 07, I had a vague idea of how the layout was,
but once I hit the track it became apparent how different it was than Racecity's high speed corners and long-bomb straights.
Its a tough course with tough corners, late apex's and more technical than I was used to.

an amazing Dogfight between a Lan Evo 2 and an R33 GTR,
I'd been watching them run around really close for a few laps and I could see the Evo wanted to get by really bad.

and just as I looked up from taking the previous shot...
 
was pretty close, the funny thing I didnt manage to get a picture of was the Evo's brakes bursting into flames after the quick stop.

An awesome pic by my buddy coming down the short straight.
(It may look like I was ahead but trust me I was being thrashed by that mustang all day)

Check out http://p1hpde.com/ for more info

Learnin to Blog...

Well here it is,

the first post in what I hope will be an ongoing Autoblog about just about everything I think about racing, tuning and the awesome stuff that makes us all so crazy about the auto scene. My hope is to bring lots of original content and pictures from track days, meets, and general fun / jack-assery from around Calgary and what the scene means to me.

Good way to start... A photo of Type-One, Spoon Sports own Garage
(something local Tuners could learn alot from!)