TOP 10 NOSome moments in 2009: #9 the NOS life ... by Kenny Cano (localscenemedia.com)

as the year comes to an end, i started thinking about all the great things that happened to me this year and the awesome people i met along the way...and not to mention how we dominated everything this year! one of the things that hit me the most was how my lifestyle has jumped from every form of motorsports out there, and every form of "car life" in the automotive space .. from imports to euros, domestics and more. 

but one thing that i didn't mention is the art form of our "car life." kenny cano was introduced to me by my best friend eugene shepard @ localscenemedia.com ... at first glance you would never think that he is an artist or let alone a film major!! after a whole summer kenny has grown closer to me, my brother and my life. not only is he a great friend but i dare say the best editor on the east coast to call into rank with will roegge, linhbergh, josh h, and more... "but i am still on TEAM LINHBERG" ... ohh yea ...  and not to mention our sexy TEAM PANDA crew 2 person car club hahah (his bmw is white and black and so is my SC) 

this video is dedicated to the people in our "car LIFE". watch the video, i just never want it to stop. with out people like this we would never be able to express ourselves ... thank you ! 

ernie .. TEAM LINHBERG (haha jk) 

Chile Drift Demo

Well I finally got back from Chile and it took me a day or so to get my timezones all back to normal. I downloaded the pics from my camera and went through and picked some highlights…

Breakfast from the hotel. It was actually really good, and I literally ate this combo every morning, haha.

The Apex FD was having a lot of issues the first day or two that we were there. I was probably the only guy who knew anything about rotary engines so I was helping out as best that I could. It took all the mechanics to troubleshoot this car to find out what had gone wrong. An intermittent primary injector was spraying when we pulled the fuel rail, but apparently cutting out just enough during idle/reving for it to run off one rotor. Everyone worked hard on fixing the car and we got it back out on the track in the afternoon on day 2.

This was the compression gauge they gave me to check to see if the motor was ok… it was real confusing!

Miki got a lil excited after the car was running and dragged the bumper along the wall in one of his earlier runs. Couple zipties got it back together.

We got a great response from the crowd in Chile! They were very excited to have us come down and put on a show for them. Many of the fans already knew all about our cars and Formula Drift.

Some of the fans even made their RC drift cars after ours!

Look at those stands!

After the demo was over, we started packing up our cars and tires… Check out this forklift with a license plate on it!

Last day in Chile…

We walked across the street from our hotel to the driving range to knock a few balls out. It was a nice change of pace, and it also reminded me of how bad my swing is.

Apparently George Costanza is running for president…

THANKS TO EVERYONE AT RPM MOTORSPORTS AND TO ALL THE DRIVERS AND TEAMS FOR AN AWESOME WEEKEND!

streetLABS: 2010 ..

look like mark is gearing up with the guys from eshift to hit xtremedriftcircuit.com next year .. enjoy ..

streetLABS: beats for your ears ..

just bought a dope set of head sets .. i've always wanted quailty sound in a head set but , i wasn't all about the huge head sets ..i like to travel light and have everything on me (thanks vigg that's your fault with the urban survival tactics) i gave gio my last skullcandies and a set to mark too .. i loved my iPod head sets but they the little grey ring comes off and then it breaks the seal in your ear .. then i tired a set of the new mushroom ear piece head sets and they were perfect .. but not loud enough, some of you might be thinking not loud .. your f'in nuts .. yea i am i love to listen to everything but what's going in my life when i am working writing or design even just thinking .. i love my music .. and need to have it .. but these right here are ill .. small and hella loud ...and they didn't cost much ! get some ..for real, today .. life changing .. AKG Personal Audio - K 340Source: www.akg.com

streetLABS if the road could speak: "Lights Out" my story of eat sleep race ...

NJ local, and long time friends, NJ finest the Mabutas brothers brian and fran... just drop another master piece of there iconic bobblehead from "Eat Sleep Race" i remember the first time that i saw the brand "it wasn't even a company" .. it was a design that i think brian (trust me if i am wrong brian is the type to correct me) created and had on his beloved civic .. i have to admit the boy was far past allot of people in the design and designing/building cars the whole alpha crew was ... and the car was very "out spoken", at first everyone was like .. what why that color .. and blah blah .. and then everyone was jockin the car .. jocked it enough that some f*ck@r stole the car ..

we are the champions .. of 2009

i wanted to take time to reflect on the people that make up what we all love ... motorsports ... congratulations to all the champions ..

NASCAR Nationwide Champion

streetLABS: ATi Gauge's cube Marc Masuda

My good friend Marc Masuda, formally of TEIN and now at ATi, but a personal great friend of mine .. pitched to build a nissan cube for Nissan USA for SEMA ..  

Here's how it turned out!  Personally the cube is not me .. but the overall idea and look of this car...i would totally drive this.

TOP 10 NOSome moments in 2009: #10 AMS/PIKES PEAK

i heart the kern's! allison and david are true gear heads and the coolest married couple i have ever met in my life.  to take on pike's peak together and not kill one another is amazing ... i can barely take anyone telling where to turn, let alone listening to your wife while flying at 100+ mph. 

coming in at #10: the TEAM NOS / AMS pikes peak team .. the kerns.. 

AMS/NOS - 2009 Pikes Peak Hill Climb from Rich Karbowiak on Vimeo.

streetLABS: Eatsleeprace.com "MAN WHIP!"

long time friends brain and fran.. once illest monochromatic honda civic owner, and alpha status supra owner.. are all grown up .. with the "man whip!" the eatsleepracing.com BMW m coupe ..

just wanted to share a few images with you all enjoy ..more after the jump ..

streetLABS: fatlace X nos energy drink projectFIVE day1 TRINITYAUTOSPORT.com FACELIFT

ok so its been a while since i have gotten my hands dirty on a car .. i have been really all about getting to the next stage in my life and getting grown .. then i had a long talk with my mentor RJ devera .. and he said "just because you're getting old doesn't mean you can't build a car, fool" and i hate to say it, but he was right ... so this is why we started projectFIVE ..

the hardest part about this whole idea of building another car was time and money.  i didn't want to build this car for me and i wanted to build something that was an extension to what who i am today, i look at the past cars i have built and think to myself wow .. man i am getting old .. and damn its been a long way since that day. each car that anyone builds and owns holds so many memories; its like a time capsule that holds a part of your soul.

this a really bad rendering of the car that i did but, this is so that everyone can get an overall idea of the build. i will have better renderings soon...

TOP 10 NOSome moments in 2009: #9 the NOS life ... by Kenny Cano (localscenemedia.com)

as the year comes to an end, i started thinking about all the great things that happened to me this year and the awesome people i met along the way...and not to mention how we dominated everything this year! one of the things that hit me the most was how my lifestyle has jumped from every form of motorsports out there, and every form of "car life" in the automotive space .. from imports to euros, domestics and more. 

but one thing that i didn't mention is the art form of our "car life." kenny cano was introduced to me by my best friend eugene shepard @ localscenemedia.com ... at first glance you would never think that he is an artist or let alone a film major!! after a whole summer kenny has grown closer to me, my brother and my life. not only is he a great friend but i dare say the best editor on the east coast to call into rank with will roegge, linhbergh, josh h, and more... "but i am still on TEAM LINHBERG" ... ohh yea ...  and not to mention our sexy TEAM PANDA crew 2 person car club hahah (his bmw is white and black and so is my SC) 

this video is dedicated to the people in our "car LIFE". watch the video, i just never want it to stop. with out people like this we would never be able to express ourselves ... thank you ! 

ernie .. TEAM LINHBERG (haha jk) 

Chile Drift Demo

Well I finally got back from Chile and it took me a day or so to get my timezones all back to normal. I downloaded the pics from my camera and went through and picked some highlights…

Breakfast from the hotel. It was actually really good, and I literally ate this combo every morning, haha.

The Apex FD was having a lot of issues the first day or two that we were there. I was probably the only guy who knew anything about rotary engines so I was helping out as best that I could. It took all the mechanics to troubleshoot this car to find out what had gone wrong. An intermittent primary injector was spraying when we pulled the fuel rail, but apparently cutting out just enough during idle/reving for it to run off one rotor. Everyone worked hard on fixing the car and we got it back out on the track in the afternoon on day 2.

This was the compression gauge they gave me to check to see if the motor was ok… it was real confusing!

Miki got a lil excited after the car was running and dragged the bumper along the wall in one of his earlier runs. Couple zipties got it back together.

We got a great response from the crowd in Chile! They were very excited to have us come down and put on a show for them. Many of the fans already knew all about our cars and Formula Drift.

Some of the fans even made their RC drift cars after ours!

Look at those stands!

After the demo was over, we started packing up our cars and tires… Check out this forklift with a license plate on it!

Last day in Chile…

We walked across the street from our hotel to the driving range to knock a few balls out. It was a nice change of pace, and it also reminded me of how bad my swing is.

Apparently George Costanza is running for president…

THANKS TO EVERYONE AT RPM MOTORSPORTS AND TO ALL THE DRIVERS AND TEAMS FOR AN AWESOME WEEKEND!

streetLABS: 2010 ..

look like mark is gearing up with the guys from eshift to hit xtremedriftcircuit.com next year .. enjoy ..

streetLABS: beats for your ears ..

just bought a dope set of head sets .. i've always wanted quailty sound in a head set but , i wasn't all about the huge head sets ..i like to travel light and have everything on me (thanks vigg that's your fault with the urban survival tactics) i gave gio my last skullcandies and a set to mark too .. i loved my iPod head sets but they the little grey ring comes off and then it breaks the seal in your ear .. then i tired a set of the new mushroom ear piece head sets and they were perfect .. but not loud enough, some of you might be thinking not loud .. your f'in nuts .. yea i am i love to listen to everything but what's going in my life when i am working writing or design even just thinking .. i love my music .. and need to have it .. but these right here are ill .. small and hella loud ...and they didn't cost much ! get some ..for real, today .. life changing .. AKG Personal Audio - K 340Source: www.akg.com

streetLABS if the road could speak: "Lights Out" my story of eat sleep race ...

NJ local, and long time friends, NJ finest the Mabutas brothers brian and fran... just drop another master piece of there iconic bobblehead from "Eat Sleep Race" i remember the first time that i saw the brand "it wasn't even a company" .. it was a design that i think brian (trust me if i am wrong brian is the type to correct me) created and had on his beloved civic .. i have to admit the boy was far past allot of people in the design and designing/building cars the whole alpha crew was ... and the car was very "out spoken", at first everyone was like .. what why that color .. and blah blah .. and then everyone was jockin the car .. jocked it enough that some f*ck@r stole the car ..

we are the champions .. of 2009

i wanted to take time to reflect on the people that make up what we all love ... motorsports ... congratulations to all the champions ..

NASCAR Nationwide Champion

streetLABS: ATi Gauge's cube Marc Masuda

My good friend Marc Masuda, formally of TEIN and now at ATi, but a personal great friend of mine .. pitched to build a nissan cube for Nissan USA for SEMA ..  

Here's how it turned out!  Personally the cube is not me .. but the overall idea and look of this car...i would totally drive this.

TOP 10 NOSome moments in 2009: #10 AMS/PIKES PEAK

i heart the kern's! allison and david are true gear heads and the coolest married couple i have ever met in my life.  to take on pike's peak together and not kill one another is amazing ... i can barely take anyone telling where to turn, let alone listening to your wife while flying at 100+ mph. 

coming in at #10: the TEAM NOS / AMS pikes peak team .. the kerns.. 

AMS/NOS - 2009 Pikes Peak Hill Climb from Rich Karbowiak on Vimeo.

streetLABS: Eatsleeprace.com "MAN WHIP!"

long time friends brain and fran.. once illest monochromatic honda civic owner, and alpha status supra owner.. are all grown up .. with the "man whip!" the eatsleepracing.com BMW m coupe ..

just wanted to share a few images with you all enjoy ..more after the jump ..

streetLABS: fatlace X nos energy drink projectFIVE day1 TRINITYAUTOSPORT.com FACELIFT

ok so its been a while since i have gotten my hands dirty on a car .. i have been really all about getting to the next stage in my life and getting grown .. then i had a long talk with my mentor RJ devera .. and he said "just because you're getting old doesn't mean you can't build a car, fool" and i hate to say it, but he was right ... so this is why we started projectFIVE ..

the hardest part about this whole idea of building another car was time and money.  i didn't want to build this car for me and i wanted to build something that was an extension to what who i am today, i look at the past cars i have built and think to myself wow .. man i am getting old .. and damn its been a long way since that day. each car that anyone builds and owns holds so many memories; its like a time capsule that holds a part of your soul.

this a really bad rendering of the car that i did but, this is so that everyone can get an overall idea of the build. i will have better renderings soon...