Progress On Street Cars

I bought some wheels I shouldn't have. 

Volk Racing wheels are highly sought Japanese wheels known for their strength, light weight, and quality manufacturing. New Volks are expensive to import and demand draws premium prices for them used. Several companies make replicas but they just don’t meet the standard set by authentic Volks.

The Volk TE37 is a nearly iconic wheel. The simple six spoke design is elegant and bold. It is a favorite wheel at the track.

The TE37 Cup edition was only produced for a few years. Its spoke surface has a unique, almost spherical, dish shape that is quite distinct. Once I saw photos of the Cups I felt they would be the best looking wheel for an AW11 MR2.

I started obsessing over these limited, rare, highly engineered, and great looking wheels. I regretted letting a few used sets get away from me, but then I found a competitively price set that had never been mounted. A couple weeks later UPS dropped a new set of Volk Racing TE37 Cups at my door. The dimensions are 15 by 7 inch, 43mm offset, 4x100 hole pattern, silver finish with a machined rim. On the scale they were a bit heavier than I expected, 12.4 pounds, but I’m still thrilled.

I haven’t bought tires yet, but was excited to see how they looked so I photoshopped them onto my street car.

Ray's Engineering Volk TE37 Cup Edition, 15x7".
The photochop job is amateur.
I’m a little embarrassed that I spent what I did for these, but have no remorse. I think people spend some silly money on wheels of questionable performance or aesthetic value, but these are undeniably great for all purposes. A bit excessive but I love them.  


In other news, the DOT.MATRIX is all blue now. Some graphics will complete this paint job soon. The rattle can finish is a little uneven in places, but what the hell. It's a beater. I spent a couple days driving it around with no driver's door or front fender. People seemed to love seeing that on the street and I got cat-calls and thumbs up everywhere I went. It was fun, but ultimately terrifying to be that exposed in traffic. 



I bought some wheels I shouldn't have. 

Volk Racing wheels are highly sought Japanese wheels known for their strength, light weight, and quality manufacturing. New Volks are expensive to import and demand draws premium prices for them used. Several companies make replicas but they just don’t meet the standard set by authentic Volks.

The Volk TE37 is a nearly iconic wheel. The simple six spoke design is elegant and bold. It is a favorite wheel at the track.

The TE37 Cup edition was only produced for a few years. Its spoke surface has a unique, almost spherical, dish shape that is quite distinct. Once I saw photos of the Cups I felt they would be the best looking wheel for an AW11 MR2.

I started obsessing over these limited, rare, highly engineered, and great looking wheels. I regretted letting a few used sets get away from me, but then I found a competitively price set that had never been mounted. A couple weeks later UPS dropped a new set of Volk Racing TE37 Cups at my door. The dimensions are 15 by 7 inch, 43mm offset, 4x100 hole pattern, silver finish with a machined rim. On the scale they were a bit heavier than I expected, 12.4 pounds, but I’m still thrilled.

I haven’t bought tires yet, but was excited to see how they looked so I photoshopped them onto my street car.

Ray's Engineering Volk TE37 Cup Edition, 15x7".
The photochop job is amateur.
I’m a little embarrassed that I spent what I did for these, but have no remorse. I think people spend some silly money on wheels of questionable performance or aesthetic value, but these are undeniably great for all purposes. A bit excessive but I love them.  


In other news, the DOT.MATRIX is all blue now. Some graphics will complete this paint job soon. The rattle can finish is a little uneven in places, but what the hell. It's a beater. I spent a couple days driving it around with no driver's door or front fender. People seemed to love seeing that on the street and I got cat-calls and thumbs up everywhere I went. It was fun, but ultimately terrifying to be that exposed in traffic. 



Happy Chinese New Year Gong Xi Fa Cai

To all my dearest friends, bloggers and readers, wish you a properous Happy Chinese New Year.

May this year of rabbit will brings more wealth and health (not to be missed..more hotwheels goodies!) and to all members and friends driving home for reunion dinner and CNY celebration, drive safe and have a nice journey home.

danielh's garage will resume custom works after new year holidays...(time to take some break now..haha)



To all my dearest friends, bloggers and readers, wish you a properous Happy Chinese New Year.

May this year of rabbit will brings more wealth and health (not to be missed..more hotwheels goodies!) and to all members and friends driving home for reunion dinner and CNY celebration, drive safe and have a nice journey home.

danielh's garage will resume custom works after new year holidays...(time to take some break now..haha)



New Version Hotwheels Custom Ralliart Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X

Another busy month passing by and i didn't realised that i didn't post anything for the whole month of May. Maybe too tired after coming back very late from work every night and i did received a lot of email enquiries pertaining to my custom work since last month. Many apologies for not replying the emails lately, i will sort it out later, soonest possible.

Now back to my works, here's my latest custom work. 1/64 scale Hotwheels Custom Ralliart Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X in street car GT version. Added are custom made from lower skirting, side skirting , rear spoiler, metal antennas to the roof, rear steel muffler , side mirrors and added co-mo white wheels. Enjoy......


Here's the outdoor pictures, i think it looks much better, right?
Another busy month passing by and i didn't realised that i didn't post anything for the whole month of May. Maybe too tired after coming back very late from work every night and i did received a lot of email enquiries pertaining to my custom work since last month. Many apologies for not replying the emails lately, i will sort it out later, soonest possible.

Now back to my works, here's my latest custom work. 1/64 scale Hotwheels Custom Ralliart Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X in street car GT version. Added are custom made from lower skirting, side skirting , rear spoiler, metal antennas to the roof, rear steel muffler , side mirrors and added co-mo white wheels. Enjoy......


Here's the outdoor pictures, i think it looks much better, right?

Custom Hotwheels Gran Turismo Nissan 350Z

As i've been busy doing some 3rd batch of R34 Gran Turismo, the 350Z came across my mind as the casting have been stripped paint to the metal and lying idle for some quite some time around and wonder how does it looks if custom made in Gran Turismo color.

These are the result....with added chrome rims with red line rubber wheels, steel mufflers and side mirrors.

another pair, with Nissan Skyline R34 together
As i've been busy doing some 3rd batch of R34 Gran Turismo, the 350Z came across my mind as the casting have been stripped paint to the metal and lying idle for some quite some time around and wonder how does it looks if custom made in Gran Turismo color.

These are the result....with added chrome rims with red line rubber wheels, steel mufflers and side mirrors.

another pair, with Nissan Skyline R34 together

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Colorado In The Books

Paddock silliness.
The BFE GP in June was another great one. Our final position, 24 of 47 teams, would not lead you to believe what a good time we had at this race on and off track.
Bro Larry, in-law James, Bow, Will, bro James, bro Joe.
The team was a bit of a family reunion. The Jameses (brother and brother-in-law) joined us for their rookie race and did great. Brother James spun off once for our only black flag. Much better than my rookie race! Mom even came to spectate her first race and LOVED it.

Yes it is.

Our position was basically killed when our fuel pump mysteriously quit. We dropped the tank and it started working, maybe just loose wires, but it cost us a couple hours of track time at the start of the race. So with the pressure off to place well, we proceeded to have a blast.

As usual at HPR, the race was stopped briefly for a thunderstorm. The temperature drop was welcome.
Queuing up after the storm.

I didn't drive until the last stint of the race. I settled in behind the second place car and stayed there for about two hours. I knew I was in trouble with fuel and the MRolla ran dry with about 5 minutes to go. That's about what a fuel stop would have cost us so it didn't matter much. It was anti-climactic for the team, but it didn't detract from how much fun I had.

Paddock silliness.
The BFE GP in June was another great one. Our final position, 24 of 47 teams, would not lead you to believe what a good time we had at this race on and off track.
Bro Larry, in-law James, Bow, Will, bro James, bro Joe.
The team was a bit of a family reunion. The Jameses (brother and brother-in-law) joined us for their rookie race and did great. Brother James spun off once for our only black flag. Much better than my rookie race! Mom even came to spectate her first race and LOVED it.

Yes it is.

Our position was basically killed when our fuel pump mysteriously quit. We dropped the tank and it started working, maybe just loose wires, but it cost us a couple hours of track time at the start of the race. So with the pressure off to place well, we proceeded to have a blast.

As usual at HPR, the race was stopped briefly for a thunderstorm. The temperature drop was welcome.
Queuing up after the storm.

I didn't drive until the last stint of the race. I settled in behind the second place car and stayed there for about two hours. I knew I was in trouble with fuel and the MRolla ran dry with about 5 minutes to go. That's about what a fuel stop would have cost us so it didn't matter much. It was anti-climactic for the team, but it didn't detract from how much fun I had.

Media From The Ridge

Here is some excellent content from the Snowspeeder's outing to The Ridge:

An excellent Podcast featuring the Snowspeeder HERE.

Julian, their rookie crew-mate did this excellent write up.

A mild penalty for Joe:



Some in-car from our good friends with Petty Cash Racing:

Here is some excellent content from the Snowspeeder's outing to The Ridge:

An excellent Podcast featuring the Snowspeeder HERE.

Julian, their rookie crew-mate did this excellent write up.

A mild penalty for Joe:



Some in-car from our good friends with Petty Cash Racing: