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  1. Come Celebrate!!!

    July 25, 2009 by C.Castro · Filed Under: Featured News

    Come and BBQ with us on August 2, 2008, as we celebrate the expansion of The Shop. In addition to the 3 lifts and 2nd floor deck, we will be expanding to a 2nd garage next door with 2 more lifts. There will be food, cars, and great company…


    See You There.

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  2. THE SHOP Photo Gallery

    July 11, 2009 by C.Castro · Filed Under: Misc

    Hey Folks, The Shop photo gallery is up and running click here to check it out.


    Heres one of them…


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  3. Welcome to The Shop Blog

    July 6, 2009 by C.Castro · Filed Under: Featured News

    Hi

    I’m Christian and on behalf of Matthel and The Shop, WELCOME!!!

    Here you will find any new updates on events we are attending and past events, pictures, and projects. Since changing over to this new site layout, I have moved some Shop blogs that were posted on my personal blog to this site. Please feel free to check them out on the side here ——————->

    you are also welcome to leave any comments or suggestions to better this blog…

    ’til next time…

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  4. Sac Raceway, July 4th weekend

    by C.Castro · Filed Under: Events

    These pics are from Test and Tune at Sac Raceway. The crew from The Shop and members from S2KI.net were in attendance. Roni almost hit 14.7, Lawton hit 14.3, Matt’s clutch was unable to handle drag radials… Enjoy the pics…

    more at flickr.com/photos/c2photos

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  5. Roni and Keyboard Cat

    by C.Castro · Filed Under: Misc

    Just a little humor. For those that did not read the previous post, this is Roni’s 18sec run =)



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  6. 10th Annual Freakmont meet

    by C.Castro · Filed Under: Events
    The Shop was a vendor at the 10th Annual Freakmont meet at Lemans Karting in Fremont. I believe at the raffle Matt gave out 3 oil changes and 1 alignment. Nice day, free food, and PICTURES. The meet was of moderate size and Lemans was doing some cheap rates for racing. Matthel’s show stopping FD was out doing its job, promoting The Shop, along with Matt’s Z32, Maxima, and Jeff’s S2K. An friend of mine was also a vendor, photoshootmycar.com, doing his thing. He brought out the New 370Z (this thing is awesome in person), R33 GTR and he Matrix… Enjoy
    as always more pics on my Flikr
    Click pics for Larger image

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  7. Memorial Day Drag Racing

    by C.Castro · Filed Under: Events
    The Shop crew went over to Infineon for some drag racing. Matt, Lawton and Roni were running there cars. Jermz and Rob tagged along and Jeff, Jieun, and Lewis met us up. On the way to the track Roni got pulled over. CHP got him for lowered vehicle, modified exhaust and intake, unreadable front plate, and expired tags… J/K he only got the exhaust ticket, he was nice enough to let us go with warning for speeding. First runs were not so great, Lawton ran a 15.4, Roni stalled and ran a 18.7 ( video is available ), and Matt was stuck in the 12.1 range. Roni finally broke into the 14’s, lawton is still a tenth or two faster, and Matt should be hitting low 11’s…
    ENJOY!!!
    Roni and his all time worst launch and 1/4 mile time…
    as always more photos are at www.flickr.com/photos/c2photos/
    click for larger pic…
    and Lawton in his “clean looking” EG
    I have another video being uploaded as we speak…
    Ciao!!

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  8. Project RX7 – BBK

    by C.Castro · Filed Under: Project RX7
    Matt said his brakes were making noise, so he decided to finally put on his Big Brakes. They are 4 Pot “Racing Brake” and larger diameter rotor…
    All Pics were taken with a Nikon D90 17-35mm with SB-800 speedlight remotely fired

    Orignal Passenger side

    Side by side comparison of the new and old rotors

    Original Mazda 4 POT and new Racing Brake

    BBK Passenger Side

    BBK Driver Side

    Wheels on and it looks great

    Perfect fit

    Simon “working”

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  9. THE SHOP Project – Matt’s LS1 RX7

    by C.Castro · Filed Under: Project RX7

    Getting ready to be dropped in…it took us 5 tries…oh well

    Prep time..




    It looks like they working hard, really they are just trying to figure out the dipstick situation

    It took about 5 tries, but we finally had the beast in place… 5.7L
    oh yea..can’t work without these
    Tuesday night, after all regular work was done, some more work resumed on the RX7…

    Fuel system was being put in place

    Measure once cut twice…or… nevermind

    Don’t trust me with tools…

    And of course we had to have some fun…



    1 week after the LS1 was fitted into the engine bay of the FD, we had a BBQ that I was late for, because of stupid management decisions, a stupid coworker, and a mishap with a catering truck and a 747. Work on the car was off and on, but nothing can beat food, great company, and CARS!!! Anyways I will let the pictures tell you what happened at the end of the night…








    Can’t have a BBQ without it

    Getting ready
    We had an audience to this great moment

    …and all it does is turn…
    until next time….
    Just to update everyone, Monday afternoon the 5.7L beast awoke. No pictures from that day, but some other pictures from the previous day. The FD is about 97-98% done, just little things here and there…

    Jeffs AP1

    Pretty flush…

    PWND!!!!

    Mmmm…Bacon!!!

    Chauder and Kat

    Roni hiding his nose

    Last time we saw Gordon’s STi

    I spell a wager going on…

    The smell of defeat…
    So…just some random pics of the build, as requested by Matt..enjoy












    First and foremost…. The Nikon D90 freaking ROCKS!!! Anyways the RX7 drives now…here are some pics for you to enjoy, and currently the Video from my D90 is being uploaded, I will embed it here at about 8:30PM tonight, so sit tight.
    Further more, these pics were taken with the D90 using a Nikkor 18-105 mm…

    Good evening, or morning in this case. With pretty much everything done on the RX7 it made its debut tonight. With a crowd at Tap Ex celebrating the life of Daisuke Kaneko, may he rest in peace, Matt rolled up to a shocked crowd. He parked gave it a little rev, ok it sounded larger than a little, a fan club came walking up. Today the headlights went on and rain x, because wipers don’t work still. Few things need to be addressed: power steering, aiming of the headlights, wipers, side skirts, exhaust, and some interior pieces…oh and this…







    Interview with Alex and Matthel of The Shop from Christian Castro on Vimeo.


    A friend once said, mechanics always have the best fun ;)

    Lights kind of on, Lip on…

    … we also put Spencer’s hard top on… what a P.I.T.A… I don’ even want to think about it…

    So as this build comes to an end, Matt treated everyone involved with the build, and a couple that had nothing to do with it…go figure…haha. Anways some quick pics of the car, super bad lighting conditions, I know. A proper shoot will follow soon…




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