Greetings from LA

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What up gang… currently sitting in the Ramada Plaza on El Segundo Blvd (of Tribe Called Quest fame)

I’ve just been at AEM for the last 2 days for factory tuner training.

Unreal!

The facility we were in was the production facility for their hard goods (cam gears, rails, intakes) but also the test facility for the AEM sponsored drift cars.

Tanners’ drift 350z just sitting there. The one time in my life I dont have my camera.

Then there’s this dude there that looks familiar. Fukin Stephen Papadakis just cruising around loading tires up to go for a practice session. Look out side. Sure enough his drift s2K is there. R-E-T-A-R-D-E-D! He was loading tires up and pulling them out of this room that probably had 30 or 40 tires all mounted already on Motegi Touge’s. I talked to him a bit and he told me those tires would proably last him about a week of testing.

Crazy cars… SC400s, Lancers, Vipers, S2K’s, 350z…not to mention what I saw on the street just walking around.

Anyway, just checking in…later. It better not be snowing there!

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all jealous?

*raises hand

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x2

Be sure to tell us more stories. 'Cause as jealous as I am, I can always just live vicariously.

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wow.

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Bing, you’d better set up a podium for Dan at the Niagara meet so that he can share his trips with us all.

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I’m jealous too.

I want to get down to LA to become an AEM factory tuner as well god dammit. but more than that i want a shop there where there are nice cars EVERYWHERE and its NEVER cold

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Sasha - if you lived in LA you would be jail dude. :slight_smile:

Was a fun trip though…I’m home now.

Now all I need to do is find some time to put my car back together so I can play.

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haha you might be right dan.

Glad you made it home safe, since I cant go to LA maybe you can teach me some of what you learnt?

Anyhow i’ll give you a call this week. Take care

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Yeah the car culture down there is pretty wild. But things are definitely shifting away from the hyped imports. Owning a done Civic or Teg is passe and doristyle is still pretty fringe…hot shit there is VIP sedans and SUVs.

3-series and G35 are the new Civics!

One of the track days I was at in LA, this is a sample of what turned up.

http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q59/Z-Tuned/nittogroup.jpg
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Hell I wouldn’t go that far SASHA there are millions of poor in LA driving messed up buckets, no certification needed (need smog tho)

Its usually nice but it does get cold there. I made the mistake of heading out in shorts and it dipped to 5! and goes negative all the time on the otherside of the hills at night.

http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q59/Z-Tuned/subby.jpg

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Lol. That’s the real LA. Cars on the highway held together with rope, Duct tape windows, you name it.

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LOL
that looks like a prime candidate for Pimp My Ride!

I can just picture the owner of that car:
“I like surfing, chilling with my friends and smoking weed… oh and I play the guitar whenever I’m sober… it’s mostly half-ass actually… please MTV, PIMP MY RIDE!!!”