Wow.
My first ever rally event, as Bill Arnold’s co-driver in the 2003 Targa Newfoundland, made me realize that there was this whole other form of motor sports that made road racing just seem so TAME. Then, the first time I drove a car in anger on a loose surface (at the Team O’Neil Rally School [...]

I just picked up my Seibon FRP doors from the painter.  They are ready for installation!
As I mentioned in a previous post, these doors should cut significant weight out of what is a very, very heavy car. My friend Navid Kahangi (former owner of Extreme Performance in San Jose, and now working with the guys [...]

It’s been almost a year since I did the Team O’Neil Rally School in New Hampshire. The rally bug bit me big time there, and it’s never let go. Well, I finally got off my butt and I’m ready to get out there and compete in the dirt.

Yep, that’s my new Rally America regional license! [...]

I will admit it… I have a carbon fiber fetish.
I love the look of carbon fiber — the not-quite-black color, the textured finish, the interesting pattern you see as light hits it. I know it’s irrational. I know it’s expensive (even with Chinese knock-off parts). I don’t care — I love the idea of carbon [...]

I’m on a mission to black-out much of the exterior of our BMW X5. I started by blacking out the badges on the car, and plan to follow up by tinting the windows, installing gloss black grilles, and installing smoked lights. To darken the headlights on our truck I purchased Lamin-X’s new lightly tinted 3M [...]

From the first day that we bought our BMW X5, I’ve hated the wood trim in the interior. The car was such a nice ride — sport package, great colors, and a great price being that we were buying it from a friend — that I overlooked the lack of a navigation system (a must-have [...]

In preparation for the install of my new doors and windows, I stripped all of the vinyl off of the Evo. The WORKS livery and Targa stickers have been on the car for a year now, so it just looks strange to me to see this bright, plain white Evo again!

I’ll be dropping off my [...]

With the other recent changes I’ve made to my wife’s BMW X5, I’ve decided I’m going to start cleaning up the exterior of the truck. My plan is to first tint the windows in order to darken the exterior look just a bit. Then, a much bigger project, is to paint all of the black [...]

My Evo IX RS, despite being stripped down to the bare essentials, is a total pig.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s not like I don’t like my car, but it is very, very heavy. It’s currently sitting about 3200lbs without driver or co-driver, meaning that in race trim at Targa Newfoundland, the thing is clocking in [...]

I have been active in the BMW Car Club of America’s driving school program since early 2000. My first driving school as a student was at the world famous Sears Point Raceway (now known as Infineon), and the combination of a great track, top notch instruction, camaraderie of the fellow drivers, and the general adrenalin [...]