Oni Jake did something summer

So this has been a long time. After getting out of the Air Force and doing the entire school thing back home in Michigan this past winter I took a semester off of the summer to do the drifting thing and get used to the regional area. Try to make friends and see who is who here.

During May '10 I installed my HKS Step 1 cams, 850CC injectors, and also fixed misc. shit throughout the car.

I also decided to ditch the old rims and got some 17x10 FNs.

At the end of May I went down to Touge Factory in Chicago to get a street tune and found out I had some sort of vacuum leak. Not really wanting to drive 5 hours down there again, I fixed the leak and never got a solid tune. I'm estimated to still be missing somewhere like 15-30HP due to a shit tune from the leak. I'm not really worried about it considering all I really need is 3rd gear. I had no plans on hitting up somewhere like Irwindale where a responsive 4th gear is needed so drifting here I come!

I went out practicing at Michigan's local track, Autocity located in the murder capitol of the U.S.: Flint, MI.

Making friends :)

This is all of Michigan's drift scene. Being srs.

So I went out to the Mid West All Star Bash and Kris decided to bitch out, along with all of the other S.D. guys so I teamed up with the 2 other guys that came from Michigan. Ryan and Mike. U.S. Air in Shawano is probably the funnest fucking track I have ever been on. I highly recommend it to everyone. Anyways, after the fun we had a team tandem comp for bragging rights, me and my other Michigan friends won 2nd place which is pretty good for never drifting the track before that weekend. Good times and look forward to next year.

The following month I played in the Drift Battle 2010 of Michigan which I somehow managed to squeeze my way into first place. Mind blown and I got really lucky. Pix from that

 So using that momentum I decided to go to the Drift Effect in Cleveland with a $4k purse. I get there and start practicing the course in 3rd gear learning my line and taking it easy when I start seeing crash after crash into the unforgivable white wall. After I seen Austin Barron crash his car I got psyched out and went back to 2nd gear. His car went from total awesome status to crushed beer can in 3 crashes. So I sucked it up and qualified 12th and did horrible. But some pictures came out of it!

So that's the end of the season for me. The car is in storage and I'm doing the school thing again. I'm thinking next year should be better as I'm giving it some thought to participate in the MDU series.

Thanks for looking,

Jake