Random Snap: German Oldie

So I haven't seen much since I have moved to Germany, since everything is mostly put away for the winter, but today I saw this elderly wonder at work. It's a 1953 Mercedes 170DS, in mighty fine shape, rocking its original 1.8L four cylinder diesel. This bad boy made 40hp and 74lb-ft. of torque, and would top out at about 65mph! Big numbers for an Autobahn stormer!

Enjoy!

-Parker

Eagle Motorsports and Formula SAE

So I wanted to make this post up for a few reasons. One, a lot of us here at racefriv are previous builders of the Georgia Southern Formula car. Russel, Parker, (and other great friends) got the program back on its feet after it was left idle for a few years. Two, because if there is a younger crowd reading this then I highly recommend that if you end up at a college with an Formula SAE team to join it and enjoy it. I learned much more of what I wanted to learn through this program than most of my college classes. Third, because the car is badass; it's a car- made from scratch, by a bunch of intelligent guys that just wanted to build and drive a racecar. Isn't that all of us?

The SouthrnFresh at Garage Zero Meet

So Southrnfresh recently came out and celebrated its 2nd anniversary at GarageZero  with a car meet, which included some of the nicest cars in Atlanta and the coolest people I've ever met at an "import" meet. I've never really been a huge fan of car shows, I'm a function over form kinda guy, but a meet like this is a must-go-to event. The cars that show up are usually someones daily driver or weekend fun cars, not too many built "just for show" cars come out which is what makes it a really awesome event. Real cars. Real people. Real fun.

(I've never seen this many AE86's in my life! It was epic!)

Clear to Drift 2.0

Clear to Drift 2.0 from racefriv on Vimeo.

Driftober and Driftember?

Phil tried out his new contour on a stick method at Turner Field #2 and he made this short teaser. Needless to say we are excite!!



Drift promo from racefriv on Vimeo.

Project: Scrap Metal..Update!

So project scrap metal is starting to take shape and I figured I'd share some of the progress it's made as it may explain why Ive been selling/buying so many S13 parts lately. Basically this all started when I got bored due to not working on anything, with the Corolla being mostly done and on drift duty I had nothing to wrench on. All my friends recently went out an bought S2000's and I wanted a vert too but couldn't bring my self to sell the suby and get one.  I was determined to get a vert and one day I found this. At first I thought it was going to be a big horse power build but I quickly changed my mind to a cheap, simple and fun build. Something I can drive everyday, enjoy being topless :) and drift it on occasions. So here's where were at. Hit read more for the full story.

(Yes its still looking like scrap metal)

Petit LeMans: Race Snaps.

As you know we stayed for the weekend at Petit LeMans at Road Atlanta last month. Russ went out and shot a few photos for the people here at racefriv. Most of the night stuff didnt come out to well but heres what did. So hold on to your seat for some raceporn from Road Atlanta.

Technical Corner - Engine Pron

Phil "James May" Ball here with the first of what may become a series of interesting yet frivolous articles.

Fact: The vast Majority of people reading this blog are gearheads.  We at racefriv are too, and if you're like us you probably get a small chuckle when you see craigslist ads for cars confusing an I6 and a V6. Mentioning a Wankel engine to a non-car plebian is usually good for a giggle too.  Even gearheads have limits though and many are unaware of some really cool engine designs that history has left behind.  Some were successful, some were not, some just made awesome sounds or looked nice.  So here, for the dedicated gearhead is a small collection of my favorite engines.  If the extreme James May content in this post disturbs you, try to stay calm.  I was born British, my Father was in the RAF and I'm an engine design engineer during the daytime, this stuff excites me way more than it should.  Also - Mustache.

Tally-ho chaps, fancy a quick fight to the death in the sky before Sundays Cricket match?

Unobtainium

Unobtainium (aka Unobtanium) : In engineering, fiction, and thought experiments, unobtainium  is any extremely rare, costly, or impossible material.
        Some times you come across something so rare, so unbelievable, something so awesome that you have to have it, and nothing can stop you. This is what happened to our friend Kevin, and once you take a look inside you'll understand why he would travel across a continent for it. (if you don't already understand by the picture below)

Video and more pics below!

Petit Le Mans: The Experience.

So Russel, Jon, and I both took a lot of pics at Petit so we decided to split it for two post one being the "experience" post the other filled with all the race porn you could ever hope for. I wanted to do the experience post because there is a lot more to Petit that sitting around taking pictures of cars, which is what everybody normal sees. So I decided to dive a little deeper into Le Mans and show what it really means to go to a race and stay for 3 days.

A home-made Focus Truck - Fruck? And a car with a new arse.

Phil here, I got me some pictures to post of some neat custom rides. At some point Ish and Russ will probably post some pictures from Petit Le Mans.  I would have gone but I need to spend less money.  I just made a large purchase (that's another post for another day).  While they were heading to Braselton riding along the highway listening to REM "everybody hurts" crying and wishing the band would get back together they saw this fine creation:

click read more - go on - you know you want to see more of this.

Car buying - the James May way

Phil Ball here.  You might remember some time ago I posted about how I couldnt find my ideal daily driver.  Well It still doesnt exist - sorry to dissapoint.  So I decided to get a bit more serious about making a compromise.  Then things got a bit James May...

The WRX did very well in this calculator whipping session

Clipping Point Rd 5 Still photos

Round 5 of The Clipping Point. You've seen the video, here are some stills from the event.  We may have more to show with time but this is whats up right now.

Classical Music and Drifting Were Meant for Each Other.

So the racefriv @ clipping point video just hit our blog shelves better pick it up while its still hot.Its crazy sick thanks to our James May body double Phil Ball.Wow .....just wow.....



Clipping Point rd 5. from racefriv on Vimeo.

Internet Love: Stephen Brooks

Every once and a while I come buy a video I cant just cant stop watching and I cant resist posting it up. Stephen Brooks is a small film maker for drift films in the UK and every video I've seen of his are simply stunning. So here is a few videos I've embedded for your enjoyment, hit read more for two other videos by a man whos simply at the top of his game.



THE HILL - Maxxis Tyres British Drift Championship Round 4 from Stephen Brooks on Vimeo.

Advocare 500 coverage

You might be forgiven for thinking that racefriv only caters to an audience of drift enthusiasts but that's really just a small piece of the very delicious pie we are baking here.  Friend of racefriv Julion Bush recently had the pleasure (I am so totes jelly too) of shooting the recent NASCAR race with the official Atlanta Motor Speedway photographer.  He didn't squander this opportunity either which you will see below.  Julion owns these photo's, so please don't copy them or use them.  If you would like to contact Julion for licensing requests drop us a line at racefriv@gmail.com or contact him directly at julionbush@yahoo.com.  Also take a look at his flickr set to see some others.

10000 Views! Woot!

So we hit a small milestone for us... 10000 views in less than one year!!!!! We know its not a lot, but its something to be proud of for us. So if you click read more I put a little compilation of some of my favorite photos from racefriv's past.

Go ahead and click it, you know you want to. 

Turner Field We Missed You, Glad You're Back

Finally our pictures exhumed themselves from the tomb of Russel's hard drive and have come back as drifting pics worth printing out and putting on your next resume. Turner Field holds a special place in my heart and I'm sure a lot of other people, when it comes to drifting. It was gone but not forgotten and now it has returned to the grassroots homeland of drifting in GA. So lets get to it, Turner Field by S2, Round 1!!!

Euro Snaps - Cars Spotted in Europe

A friend of the RaceFriv community took a trip to Europe and while he was out and about he saw some fun cars and took pictures for us.  So lets 'ave a butchers at 'em (thats my English slang showing through) and thanks to Bryan for passing these on to us.

Some Star Cars!

So I recently hit up Dragon Con 2011, it was insane as always. I checked out the parade to see what would come by and to my surprise there were some pretty sick cars in it. My friend Audet  took a few pics so I stole a few from his camera and figured I'd show to everyone on here. Enjoy!