I love Australia. My mom, dad and I have this fantasy of moving there someday. The funny thing is, I have never been to Australia. I only know it from the pictures and the people I have met from there. However, every single person I have met to date that is from Australia is amazingly cool. Jeff Denmeade is no exception.
MotoIQ just posted a great interview with JOON MAENG.
http://www.motoiq.com/magazine_articles/articletype/articleview/articleid/2085/driver-profiles-joon-maeng.aspx
Before getting in to that however, I have to say, all that stuff you hear about Joon is true. I got the chance recently to hang out with Joon over the weekend at Redline Time Attack when RRE was out supporting his S13 for the event July 2-3 at Big Willow. Joon and I shared a hotel room, so we hung out a bit on and off the track. After careful study of Mr. Maeng, I have to say, he is just as cool as the media describes him as. The guy has a magnetic personality and he is just golden to be around even when his car was overheating in the 112 degree heat (that translates to something like 10000000 degrees on the track). Joon took the whole weekend in stride, the ups the downs and even me, snoring while he was trying to get some sleep. It was a great weekend and I hope to get the chance to hang out with the RRE crew and Joon again soon!!
Also, The fact that Joon is the first Korean American pro drifter is no joke in the Korean community. Koreans take stuff like that seriously and the community is behind this guy with their love and support!! There is a minidoc on this here:
[youtube]http://youtu.be/TAalvOrqnLY[/youtube]
….enough said… Here is the interview. Don’t forget to check out MotoIQ!! Their site is worth at least a day wasted in the office at your cubicle monitor!! ALSO, I changed ALL the pictures on here, so the MotoIQ story will have pics. of Joon in his beastly RX-8.
Here is a cool video of Scot Grey out in his dope 1G at STREETS of Willow Springs braving the hot hot summer heat with some night action!! Scot can normally be found driving cars on the dyno as RRE’s tuner.
Our good friend and both customer and supplier Ziggy from Zeitronix also took his 1G GSX out for some night runs.
Better late than never!!
I asked Matt to send me a bio but he just sent me these pics.
I told him that if he did not send me a bio, I would tell everyone how he is an exotic dancer in West Hollywood and that his character is a Fireman. I guess my threats were so close to the truth, he did not want anything changed. Oh, and Matt races EVOs really fast. He has some sponsors. RRE is one of them. We work on his car.
We took the RRE Project RalliArt to Fontana to do some further testing for DSport Magazine and their car buyer guide they publish every year. This year they wanted to include some lightly modified cars to test against stock cars.
Enter the RRE RalliArt. The suspension/chassis is a basic street setup. RRE Lowering springs, Whiteline rear sway bar and Stoptech front brake pads. For power it is a full stock longblock with stock cams. It has an RRE FMIC and pipes, BBX-Lite turbo from CBRD, Tomioka tubular exhaust manifold and widemouth down pipe and HKS cat back exhaust. It runs on E-85 fuel with Deatschwerks 800cc injectors and a Blaqops fuel pump kit.
Steph Papadakis did the 1/4 mile testing along with Michael Ferrara. It was fun hanging with two import drag legends from the 90’s for the day. Once Steph got the RalliArt launch sequence down he and Mike ran several low 12 second passes at over 100 mph. The car just rolled over to 29k miles and still got my clutch!
We are happy to announce a new Brake Specialist at RRE. His name is Bryce. You might think that it is weird that such a young guy could rise to such a prominent position but his size is what made us so interested in him. With lifts in such high demand at RRE, having a guy who can just walk in to a wheel well is priceless. Here we see Bryce working on Ed Nazarian’s RRE supported EVO IX. Ed Nazarian is that guy with a blog that has no pictures.
Ed Nazarian’s NASA ST-2 EVO 9 Blog
No Longer Available – Magnaflow had a large price increase which make this part no longer competitive. If you can get a decent deal somewhere on the Magnaflow muffler (Part Number 14851 – includes the tip already installed) that we used, get it and have a local muffler shop do the install. Use the pics still posted here for inspiration.
Built using a stainless steel Magnaflow muffler. Sweet throaty sound. Not buzzy or droning at all. Your stock piping is a decent diameter and this is the best value for more power and the best sound. Aggressive but not huge 4″ double wall stainless steel tip. |
Sound Clips: Driving Inside From Behind Driving Off