{"id":5015,"date":"2013-07-30T23:14:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T06:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/?p=5015"},"modified":"2013-08-25T04:30:17","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T11:30:17","slug":"joon-maeng-pas-magazine-feature-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/30\/joon-maeng-pas-magazine-feature-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Joon Maeng &#8211; PAS Magazine Feature Article"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pntrst_main_before_after\"><\/div><p><a href=\"http:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=5036\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5036\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5036\" title=\"joon-pasmag\" src=\"http:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/joon-pasmag.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"708\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/joon-pasmag.jpg 708w, https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/joon-pasmag-150x123.jpg 150w, https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/joon-pasmag-300x247.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 708px) 100vw, 708px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joon Maeng&#8217;s LS-13 got a nice feature article in PAS Magazine this month. Nice story and background on the car with all the tech specs. Read the full article here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pasmag.com\/features\/rides\/3266-like-car-like-driver-joon-maengs-fd-nissan-240sx-s13\">Like Car, Like Driver<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WRITTEN BY AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY ANDREW JENNINGS | PAS Mag August 2013<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=5017\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5017\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5017\" title=\"Joon-Maengs-FD-Nissan-240SX_PASMAG_1\" src=\"http:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Joon-Maengs-FD-Nissan-240SX_PASMAG_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Joon-Maengs-FD-Nissan-240SX_PASMAG_1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Joon-Maengs-FD-Nissan-240SX_PASMAG_1-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Joon-Maengs-FD-Nissan-240SX_PASMAG_1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s two sides of every coin for a reason<\/p>\n<p>Joon \u201cGentle\u201d Maeng may look like just another young driver on the Formula Drift circuit, but don\u2019t let his appearance fool you. He has been through many ups and downs, and a number of cars too. This year brings a new beginning and a fresh start for the South Korean. His personal Lucas Oil \/ Mav TV sponsorships were renewed, and he is now joined by Nexen Tires to take on the competition, managing his own program with the help of Road Race Engineering. Reliability is key to success in the unforgiving world of drifting, and his latest Nissan S13 chassis has been conceived from the ground up with that in mind.<\/p>\n<p>To play with the big boys, a basic four-cylinder engine wouldn\u2019t cut it. Maeng\u2019s team knew this and went a different direction, swapping a Brodix 8.2-liter LSX V8 into the front of the sport coupe and tuning it to put out a whopping 800 horsepower and 750 lb-ft of torque. The power is managed through a dog box transmission and ACT clutch and flywheel, transferring into a brand new Weir Performance rear end.<\/p>\n<p>Read the Full Article Here on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pasmag.com\/features\/rides\/3266-like-car-like-driver-joon-maengs-fd-nissan-240sx-s13\">pasmag.com\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"twttr_buttons\"><div class=\"twttr_twitter\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=Joon+Maeng+-+PAS+Magazine+Feature+Article\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"\" data-hashtags=\"\" data-lang=\"en\" data-size=\"default\" data-url=\"https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/30\/joon-maeng-pas-magazine-feature-article\/\"  data-related=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><div class=\"pntrst_main_before_after\"><div class=\"pntrst-button-wrap\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\" data-pin-custom=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\"><img data-pin-nopin=\"1\" class=\"pntrst-custom-pin\" src=\"https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-buttons-pack\/bws-pinterest\/images\/pin.png\" width=\"60\"><\/a>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/30\/joon-maeng-pas-magazine-feature-article\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"fb-share-button  \" data-href=\"https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/30\/joon-maeng-pas-magazine-feature-article\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"small\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joon Maeng&#8217;s LS-13 got a nice feature article in PAS Magazine this month. Nice story and background on the car with all the tech specs. Read the full article here:\u00a0Like Car, Like Driver WRITTEN BY AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY ANDREW JENNINGS | PAS Mag August 2013 There\u2019s two sides of every coin for a reason Joon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[21,19,36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5015"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5045,"href":"https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015\/revisions\/5045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}