CornDrift

Progress

2012-01-28T01:06:00.000-08:00

Been working on my car the last few weeks. Big thanks to Matt for doing tubs and Xander for tackling the crazy wiring. Here are some progress shots. This is the engine harness after we started removing all of the unnecessary wires and plugs. That box is all just wiring from the engine harness. Also took the plunge and made the cuts for the tubs.

Tubs are completed. Engine bay ready for paint. Took forever to tape all that stuff off.

Engine bay after paint and the headlight harness is complete. I regret not taking a good before photo of the wiring in the engine bay. The difference is a amazing. Instead of a gigantic harness that went through the firewall on the drivers side, wrapped around the front of the car, went to the big ass fusebox and then back into the firewall on the passenger side, it has been reduced to this. The only other wires besides the engine harness that will come through here are the fan wires, alternator and starter wires.

Winter Cleanup.

2012-01-10T20:38:00.000-08:00

Well its that time of the year to pull the car apart. Although this is my first time doing a winter "build". Just cleaning up the car a bit, nothing major. Mostly redoing the wiring and making the engine bay a lot cleaner.

Form>Function

2011-12-15T15:43:00.000-08:00

What happens when you drift on shitty coilovers and your car is too low? You get sweet tuckin, smoke from the front tires, car on the ground action.

Someday I might have correct suspension geometry and less camber but for now this is how it will stay.

100 DOD Alacrious

2011-12-10T00:32:00.000-08:00

Here is Justin's quick edit for 100 Drifters. He was mainly focused on photos but he had enough footage to throw together a video too.

100 Drifters of December 2011 from Alacrious Media on Vimeo.

Jefferson Circuit

2011-12-07T11:34:00.001-08:00

Here is a GoPro run of me on Jefferson Circuit at 100 DOD. Jefferson was open all day with almost no people driving on it. I should have spent more time here. Such a fun track. Thanks to Mike for being camera car and Justin for the edit.

Alex on the Jefferson Circuit from Alacrious Media on Vimeo.

100 Drifters TWreck Films

2011-12-07T11:32:00.001-08:00

Check out this video of 100 Drifters by Tofu Wreck Films.

100 Drifters 2011 | TWreck Films from TofuWreck Films | Jd Lazaro on Vimeo.

100 Drifters of December

2011-12-07T10:35:00.000-08:00

Last weekend me and some friends headed out to 100 Drifters of December in Summit Point, WV. I almost didn't make it to this event but I got my car up and running the day before. It was by far the funnest drift event I have ever been to. Drift Nirvana did a great job of organizing two full days of drifting. With multiple tracks to choose from there was constant drifting going on. And for being December, the weather was actually really great. Saturday was a bit cold but Sunday was a nice sunny day and almost 60 degrees. My only regret is not being able to drift on the main course because we decided to check it out late on Sunday and as we rolled up the track was just closed for the day. So here is a selection of pics from the weekend. There is too much coverage to post it all so at the end of this post are links to a few photo sets from various photographers.

Thanks to all the people doing media coverage. The following is a list of people these photos were taken by and a link to their 100 DOD coverage:

Justin of Alacrious Media J Alacrious 100 DOD

David Miller s13 Dave 100 DOD

Dee Dee Smack 100 DOD

Dan Jenkins Dan Jenkins Wrecked Magazine 100 DOD

Clubloose Alacrious Media

2011-11-02T20:59:00.000-07:00

Here is Justin's Beaverun video. I have never seen such a nice edit of any Beaverun event. Thank you Justin for putting in the time.

Clubloose at Beaverun, 2011 from Alacrious Media on Vimeo.

Clubloose Halloween Drift

2011-10-31T16:39:00.000-07:00

So I went to Beaverun yesterday for the last BR/Clubloose event. It was a Halloween themed drift event. I haven't been to a Beaverun in years. The last time I went was when I had a stock KA. This event was really laid back and was a lot of fun. Here is a selection of images courtesy of Justin, William Kinch and Shocker Joe Coville. Click below for more.

Brad Heyl brought out his "Zombie Destroyr" s13.

Chad's car transformed into a Dinosaur.

John Adams looking good testing out his new suspension setup

You can see a lot more pictures from this event in the flickr links to the photographers mentioned above. Thanks for being out there and being dedicated to taking media coverage

Justin: J Alacrious

Kinch: WEK Photography

Shocker Joe Coville: JoeJoetelephone

TL Hotness

2011-10-27T15:29:00.000-07:00

Kielan just recently shot a feature for StanceWorks of Tommy's TL. It's cool to see a StanceWorks feature on a local car. Follow the link and visit StanceWorks to check out the full feature here: Diamond in the Rough. Here are a few teaser pics.

Street

2011-10-22T16:48:00.000-07:00

A short clip. This is one of my favorite turns. Downhill going by the bus stop.

Fall shots

2011-10-19T21:36:00.000-07:00

We wanted to go out and take some pics in the Fall colors. So we headed out to some back roads. Props to Kielan and Alex for the photos.

State College Slampieces

2011-10-12T15:11:00.000-07:00

Last Sunday my friend Justin put up a post on tristate tuners about doing a photoshoot in state college. To my surprise, he gets in touch with some people and we meet up to take photos and shoot the shit. Nick and Alex show up in their audi's and Kielan from the Stanceworks forum also came along to take some shots. More pics in the post.

From left to right is Nick and Alex's A4's.

Watching these things drive was awesome. They were scraping just driving on flat ground. They were dragging small broken pieces of glass on the roof of the parking garage. Takes some commitment to drive these around. Nicks Audi is static rocking some Benz wheels.

And Alex's A4 is on bags. And what's awesome about it is that watching him drive through town you will see that he never airs it up. He drives it at that height.

And I thought my car was low.

Fall Freshness

2011-10-10T14:35:00.000-07:00

Decided to get myself some fresh paint and a new kit. I was tired of how beat my car was looking. With that being said, I'm sure it will return to looking shitty in no time. But I'm enjoying this while it lasts. Click below for more shots.

Finishing Moves

2011-10-07T23:20:00.000-07:00

Club Loose just held Finishing Moves. I'm bummed it was the last road course event of the year. I would have gone but my car was being painted that weekend. Justin went down to cover it and this is what he came up with.

Rollin

2011-10-07T23:09:00.000-07:00

Here are a couple rolling shots Justin took a few weeks ago of my car. The car looks different now. I'll have to get some new shots.

GoPro

2011-09-22T19:24:00.000-07:00

Some GoPro footage of my run with Steve from the labor day drift event. Watch it in the youtube link for HD.

9-18-11

2011-09-19T06:08:00.000-07:00

Here is a video and some shots from our small get together yesterday. Some dudes came down from the Reading area. Was a pretty chill day. Click the link for video and more pics

And here is a video thrown together by Dee.

Labor Day Weekend Drift

2011-09-11T11:10:00.000-07:00

Long time no updates. Nothing has been going on. But we just had a little event over the labor day weekend. Fresh Scratches from exploding tires, close call tandem spin outs, wheel fell off, Amish drifters, Andrei blew his ka, just a fun event in general.

Here is a quick edit Justin threw together.

And a longer "raw" version thrown together by Steve.

Brawler

2011-06-23T21:06:00.000-07:00

Some random shots of my beat ass heap.

Snap On

2011-06-05T21:32:00.000-07:00

The Harley Davidson Dealership had a snap on tools show yesterday and we were asked to come out and do some messing around. Here are some pics thanks to Justin at Alacrious Media. Click below for more.

Update

2011-05-29T13:56:00.000-07:00

So we had to completely rip apart my car to install a clutch release bearing hub. I also got some new things, like a hydro, new coils and other minor stuff. Went drifting and already blew up a front coilover and rubbed through my tucked away harness. I need to stop braking shit.

Monticello

2011-04-20T15:53:00.000-07:00

My friend Justin went up to the opener in Monticello for some media coverage. Check out his video. And his pics on Flickr: Monticello on Flickr

D-Up Drifting at Monticello 4/10/11 from AlacriousMedia on Vimeo.

Horse Snake

2011-03-19T00:02:00.000-07:00

Matt's "Horse Snake". And yes, he has xxr's and I have cobra reps.

Parts

2011-03-06T14:27:00.000-08:00

Got some new stuff. Finally went to 5 lug. Its about time.

Only shitty pic I have at the moment. 17x9 + 24 225/45 17x10.5 + 20 245/40. Plans are to get a spacer and some camber in the front and hopefully go from a 45 to a 40.

Snowwzz II

2011-03-06T13:49:00.000-08:00

So haven't updated in a while. Car was mostly parked the last couple months. Just wanted to throw up some pics of us having fun in the snow on Matt's quad.

Throwback

2011-01-15T12:31:00.000-08:00

Decided I would post up a couple of old videos today. First is a really short clip i found of me in the pathfinder from some old drift video. And the second is a video we made of my friend having fun and drifting in his kia rental car that he had for a few days.

Snowwzz

2011-01-13T12:31:00.000-08:00

Every time it snows, the pathfinder is the daily drifter. Went out the other night with some peeps and had some fun. Had some video but it sucked because of poor lighting.

White Stuff

2011-01-07T22:30:00.000-08:00

Had to drive my car home in the snow last night. Barely got it home. Quick spool + 2way with bad tires is not fun. Today I though it would be cool to go do some snow shots so I got Justin and he snapped some pics. Front bumper was destroyed at the last oval day.

DDay 12/29

2010-12-30T08:14:00.000-08:00

Had another small oval day. Justin just got his Canon 7D and we wanted to do some sliding. All media belongs to Justin. Visit his Flickr, Personal Facebook and company fb page: Alacrious Media. Thanks Justin. Click below for some pics. More might be added later.

Drift Day 12/29 from AlacriousMedia on Vimeo.

Here are the pics: Actually all the pictures of my s14 are not of me but of my girlfriend Andrea drifting my car. She has gotten pretty good considering the very little seat time she had.

Kiwi fun

2010-12-27T08:27:00.000-08:00

We should have events like this. NZ is the shit.

Gayness

2010-12-19T00:22:00.000-08:00

So I made a cheap cage camera mount and decided to test it out. As you can see, my p.o.s. $200 camera fails pretty hard at focusing and image stabilization. Oh well.

Untitled from Kas14slider on Vimeo.

Hopeless

2010-12-19T00:07:00.001-08:00

Updates

2010-12-18T21:18:00.000-08:00

Haven't posted in a long time because I am extremely lazy and I wrecked my car at a drift event. But since then I got it back so who knows, maybe I'll post something

Getting Close

2010-06-17T01:15:00.000-07:00

Man, I just can't wait. It's getting down to the days now. After a year and a half with no car.

Kinda low and really really slow

2010-05-03T14:57:00.000-07:00

Andrei's whip. Blown headgasket for years, around 60hp, 20+sec 1/4 miles, but still the most reliable car ever. Coilovers fully raised, could be in the ground

Now with Gas Discount

Spring time

2010-04-28T12:25:00.000-07:00

It's been over a year since I had my car, so spring time was spent having fun on bikes or quads. Click below for more

My pos green machine

My s14

2010-04-27T13:59:00.000-07:00

To start off, I'll post some pictures of my 96 s14. These are from back in 2008 right before my car got taken out.

This is the last time I drifted this car at our last Freeze Your Tires Off event in Nov 08

Right Before This Happened....

Smashed by a 350z that understeered into me while I was parked on the side
This was the end of that chassis

Welcome

2010-04-27T13:30:00.000-07:00

Name is Alex. Don't expect anything much from this blog, I just made it to post random shit about me and my friends and our cars. And our "drift scene" in this boring little town of State College, PA.