Hi everyone! New member
 

What's up everyone!

My name is Chris. I have a shop in Socal called Phantom Garage USA.
I've been along time car enthusiast loving almost all makes and models.

I personally have a second gen Lexus GS that is under going the knife pretty soon (NA-T).

Here's a pic of my Lexus






and here's what it used to look like:

(19x9 +15 19x10.5 +20)


(20x9.5 +20 20x12+0)


(20x10 +5 20x13+0)

This is my "adopted" brother y'all, make him feel at home.


























Fag.

Whalecum

Welcome.

Welcome here is a hint don't hang around with guy....

Welcome aboard.

I must however inform you, you are hella close to hella flush. :smack:

Yeah, kinda what he was going for. :smack:

LMAO!!! i guess i'm the only one here that's into stretched tires, credit card fitments, and negative camber

Not the ONLY one, but probably the only one who admits it.

Stretched tires: HATE HATE HATE
Credit card fitment: love. Moar low.
Negative camber: ill just pass you.

I have negative camber

















On the race car.

My dd has it also.... Because race dd :D

i doubt you guys go that extreme on the camber... -6 degrees and up


sometimes i need to run a 265/30 on a 13" wide wheel

That shit is whack yo!

Welcome aboard. I have to admit that when I say your pics I did throw-up a little in my mouth.

To be fair though, Leedom does that a lot.

it's all good. everyone has different taste in cars and mods.

My next setup is actually going to be a bit easier on the eye, maybe.. LOL!

im doing a 2" widebody in the rear to accommodate a 18x12 on a 295/35 tire with roughly about -3* camber.

and going to do a turbo setup on it too.

That is one nice things about use here. We may not always like something 100% but we accept it. We are all car people, We can learn a lot from different car genres.

You may be in to different things then most people on here but I enjoy looking and reading up about different stuff its the only way you get ideas to make our own cars better.

We welcome all styles and all brands here at MG

I still dont like fords!!!!

Fords didn't like you first :p




:D

And I still don't like you.

And the world goes 'round...

He's just mad that the upgrade for his caddy is a ford rear end.

Just sayin'

I have nothing but love in my heart for everyone and everything.


Sorta . . .

Obama and general motors love you too

They love my money, that's for sure.

FTFY

Why?

Because everyone has different tastes in autosports.

I think the realm of autosports has been vacated for fashion. I run 3.2 degrees of chamber at Cal Speedway and 2-2.5 everywhere else. I can't see any advantage so running a small tire on such a wide rim. Again, I run 315 on a 11" wide rim. Remember I am the guy that thinks drifting is ballet on wheels and not a real sport.:nutkick:

It's more like figure skating. :drink:

Before you knock either try going a full day doing one. You'd be surprised at how many "men" couldn't do an hour of ballet.

Modifying your car for any reason is typically considered autosports. Whether it's your taste or not. I don't care for drag racing, doesn't mean anything though.

Not a chance. Those dancers are serious athletes and tough as nails.

I don't think low-riders would consider themselves as having anything to do with auto sports. :huh: Just semantics though. If it covers everything for you, then so be it. I tend to thinnk of anything involving driving and competing, so i'd say drifting, ralley, gymkana, are all part of auto-sports, but pure aesthetics or thingstargeted to just cruising around like low-riders to not part of auto-sports.

I would say its any modification along with competing. That's how I define it. Therefore, I also consider drifting an automotive sport, though I've never competed. I've been to two sanctioned drifting events and enjoyed myself.

I don't know what modification has to do with competing. Some racing is bone stock. Other racing is purpose built racing cars (e.g., F1) so it's hard to call them modified. Hence driving + competing = motor sport. I'm not making any value claim, only stating my definition.

BTW, Phantom, virtually every thread on MG gets hijacked. . .

My point was this, not eliminating what is obvious competition, but when it becomes gray area. I.e audio competitions, drifting etc etc. many purists don't recognize these things as automotive motor sports, but IMO they are.

Racing on a track whether modified or not seems a no brainer...

Just conveyed my thoughts exactly, Going to a car show and competing for an award is no different. Sure some might win because they're race cars or some could just be very clean well built cars

There is no action between agents. It would be like saying a photo competition, or even more oddly, a mere photo exhibit is a sport, whereas "sport" clearly implies physical action AND competition.

sport
An activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others.

Drift as sport? No problem.