jail time at cell block D.

sunday was a very fun day with my car. entered my first drift event with a buddy of mine, matt froese - Cell Block D. WHAT A BLAST! it was so much fun! track was nothin special, an oval with 2 banked turns. the turns were decent size tho. you definately had to maintain the drift. awesome experience. a couple of our friends made it out and were cheerin us on. praise god neither of us crashed. walls were scuffed up from lots of other people gettin nasty already. i came close during my second lap of the day, but after that nothing too crazy. 2 other guys crashed. lots of nice cars there. skylines (r32's, gts-es, and one was a 4 door) were killin it! such amazing driving. couple toyoda 'rollas. an fc with a 1j in it. fun times for sure. car felt great. it rained the whole time but i like slidin in the rain, easier on the rubber/wallet. i ran the 17x9.5's in the rear with fairly fresh rubber. car handled great. mainly stayed in the top of second gear around the corners for sliding. it was nice to have an actual corner that was long and gave you something to aim for. scary cuz of the walls (didn't wanna smash up at my first event) but great cuz you don't gotta worry about on coming drivers/coppers/private property/security. so glad i went. hope i get to go to more.

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drift pics. courtesy of Gaelen Norman. (i'll post matt's up when i get those)

matt's car, gettin'er done.



myself, after a spin out.



got it this time. comin out nice and smooth



hiding out in the pits.

June what and we're snowboarding at seymour.

on a car related note i'm having issues with the timing. i thought i set it all to stock yesterday.. (it was outta wack, i dunno how. something needs to be sorted out!) so ya, i set it to stock, and about 17 degrees. used a timing light, drove it a couple times testing this and tweaking it a couple times till it felt right. so drove it outta there and it was good for a day. put new spark plugs in, checked fluids. everything is good. so i'm thinking maybe an ecu problem or fuel pump/filter/fpr (fuel pressure regulator). the fpr is prolly old and i would like an upgrade. the filter is stock, 300zx's are a nice upgrade too hmmm. and the fuel pump i am unsure if its a good 255 flowing one or not. so may as well replace that too. ugggggghhhhh... add those to the shopping list. it never ends :)

anyways.

so its june whatever today and i went up with a couple buddies and went snowboarding at Mt. Seymour! there was snow everywhere! even down from the main parking lot. i was really surprised and happy! we set up a ribbed sewage style pipe and a sheet of plywood to play on. ghetto setup for the win! it was a little foggy at first but sooooo much fun to be back on the shred stick. alex threw down a front two-sev and right after him jf threw down a front two-sev on two-sev off. needless to say, both tricks were done with madd steez and stomped like nobody's business. then the session was really on. 180's in and out of everything. switch this, press that. tap it. revert it. slide it. stomp it. you name it, it was goin down. heres some pics of the joy that was had.

the setup:



alex spinning a 270 on



myself, nollie-ing out of a nosepress



jf DESTROYING a backside tailslide fakie



and myself gettin low on a backtail.