Firt off i would like to shout out to one of my favorite local drivers,

Rich Abella. 

He is the shortest dude i know, but has the biggest heart. He is so over being a pro drifter and does it for the love…

here is a quick video of him ripping at Clubloose Events!

Rich Abella in his Z33 at Club Loose
 

Secondly  

I want to congradulate Justin Pawlek for Third place victory in boring pro drifting and original clubloose drifter Vaughn Gittin Jr for his top o’ the podium finish at this weekend formula D final .

You come a long way Vaughn

Blogging has been both boring and nearly impossible without a good camera. Not only do i need it to take wicked myspace shots. But i also need a camera to let you see through my eyes. 

Here is a little story. Back when i was growing up on the farms of NJ we didnt really have much to do. Field and bonfire parties were common and yes drinking would take place. One of my good buddies Pat Dennigan would take his drinking seriously, as any good irishman should. Anytime we had a party Pat would ALWAYS be the drunkenest. It seems like 5 minutes into the party he would be slurring and and the bottle of booze in his hand would be almost empty. Pat would always get into trouble too. Fighting ten dudes from the town over..done. Smashing somone’s house to shit… done. Entering a neighbors house thinking it was the house the party was at .. done. Getting arrested and charged with assualting an officer..done. 

During these times i always wished i could make some sort of helmet cam to capture Pats exploits. Sadly i am old and technology and my general know how during that time period was limited. 

I dont know the point of all that but i know when UPS man comes to my house, i will use my newly purchased Samsung L200 10megapixel camera to fill these pages with all the awesome and hilarious shit i see. Its gonna be so awesome!

Here is what my  camera looks like.

This is the L100 but im assuming mine comes with more awesomeness.Yeah i got it in red… It better match my Samsung Phone!

Hopefully we get some losers this time around. The fail section needs to be beefed up!

For anyone that doesnt know ZT is an elitest drifting forum. Its full of many “PRO” drivers and goofs. The for sale section is all awesome parts, all the time and full of discounts you can find no where else!

So yesterday CRC Industries was all up in the shop making dyno runs all day long. Allegedly the MAF cleaner they make has this little claim on the bottle to make 4-10 HP. Well again they backed up this can’s claim, actually exceeding it!. News flash Nissan dummies, yall should have this can at all times.

Everyone’s car made more power but Pat’s 929. I think all the years of me owning it put some serious hurt on it . The Nine Duece managed a ground pounding 113 hp out of its V6 power plant, oh and he also has 2 bad knock sensors (Get serious Pat!). No amount of Maf cleaner or praying to the gods of speed could help this clapped out mid 90’s behemoth.

Here is some dyno proof. I know how car nerds love to look at dyno graphs. 

This product is pretty rad, and they totally got us lunch too!

So go get some CRC Industries maf cleaner and clean out those junkyard 300z maf’s

I came into work early today cause CRC Industries had rented the dyno for the whole day. They have done this before to dyno test the results of their CRC Maf cleaner. They claim some sort of HP gain and if you look at the bottle you see my job name on the back (DYNO results based on testing @ RT Tuning.)

Well today they are apparently shooting some sort of commercial and instructional video promoting their products.. and i guess how to use a spray can ?!?! I met all the marketing big wigs and the testing got underway. Hopefully they buy us lunch cause there were no bagels or ANYTHING here when i got here. BOGUS. Anyway im starving and will update this if anythign cool happens.. But i doubt it. Maybe they will dyno my Odyssey.

A long time ago in a drift world not unlike our own. A mechanic lived by the rules of the open road. Sleeping in dumpsters and eating at truck stops. Battling road ants and wrenching till he bled. Dave Shoemaker was this tireless road warrior. As you may or may not know Dave was the mechanic for the mythical albeit short lived “Team Snake Bite”. He was getting down and dirty keeping Ryan Tuerck and Tony Angelo’s privateer machines running.

At Jersey Formula D last year i saw him swap a transmission on the ground in like 20 minutes, in blistering heat. All this mayhem eventually caught up with poor Dave and he retired late in the 07 season. Packed up his belongings and shipped his life back home, To the East Coast. Manchester NH to be more specific.

Dave took a minute and tried to settle down and fell back into his old profession rather nicely at Spyglass Tattoo in the little town of Manchester.
So to the point.

Dave Sent me the link to his new website and i think you should all check it out.
www.BornTrouble.com

Dave does some amazing work and can be seen on most of the non pussy Drift Alliance drivers myself included. 

Here is a picture of my work by Dave “Hammer Time”

Good Luck Dave!!

Like most dudes in drifting i come to wrecked to see whats up with whats going DOWN! I figure these guys are everywhere they should know whats hot and whats not. I read all the interviews, I watch all the video’s ….. and there lies the problem. Did anyone catch this new Gushi/ Rogue Status video?

I tried.. I really did. I tried too not fast forward this video. I failed miserably. The first 5 minutes(yes first 5 minutes) ran like a fan’s video, but this fan had horrible ADD. I was left feeling confused and dis-oriented. It went a little like this.

Look its us, Look there’s some cars, Look its the voice of Formula D, Hey Drift Alliance, Some drifting going on over there, Some cars rolling around in the grid.

And then the second half came, Of this 12 minute video. It was a bunch of on car of Gushi in his scion TC drift car sponsored by Rouge Status. It was laid out like a training video.. Editing of said video seemed like an after thought. Im sure even Gushi’s Mom was psyched when this video was over. Cause i assure she is the only other person on earth that made it to the end.

Rogue Status invades the Bay for FD Sonoma

Low and behold i actually have a fan of this blog. My good buddy in Philly, Andy Laputka.

You may know him as the guy behind the camera for Drift alliances smash hit DVD “STAY HUNGRY”.

Andy sent me this text

I told andy that i really dont have anything going on in my life worth blogging about. He said i was a funny guy (thanks andy) and to come up with something to entertain him. I know when i need some entertainment i go to an old standby. A trusty confidant that has been funny all my life and will continue to be funny till the hand of god takes me away.

Poop. 

So with that in mind here is a picture of the toilet at work after some fat kid came in and asked to use it.

Apparently it “was an emergency” By the looks of this toilet seat i bet it was.

Have fun at the internet cafe Andy. Dream of me. 

Love matt!

Dear Diet Dr Pepper i love you.

With love,
Matthew Thomas Petty

So slavik is new to video game .. this is his rookie season as a film maker. He covers most of the Clubloose Events but the work he did for ECB(east coast bash) is again fucking amazing. Can someone hire this kid for work.. He paints houses i think.. obviously his talents are being wasted. Just tell him i helped get him the job so he will still come back and film E-town drifting once in a while.

So with less blah blah blah .. here is the video.

All Star Bash EAST!