Photo and words by RJ Deslate

In my younger days in the Philippines, I would always look at the windows of magazine stores and stare at the cover of Import Tuner, wishing I had enough money to buy a single issue. Some of you guys might say, “well, why don’t you just browse it?” In the Philippines, browsing is not allowed in magazine and book stores. I started to build up that hunger and obsession towards Import Tuner Magazine, Modified Mag and Super Street even though I have yet to read a single one of them till I moved here stateside. Last saturday was a childhood dream come true to me; not only was I able to visit Source Interlink Media which produces a good amount of famous magazines including my favorites, Import Tuner, Modified and Super street. It was also Formula D tech day and I was able to take a glimpse on what is up and coming to the season of 2012 for formula D.

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The event wasn’t just a full on tech day; it was also a meet and audition to get featured on one of Source Interlink Media’s automotive magazines.

Familiar drift cars were present in the parking lot like Taka Aono’s megan racing AE86 and is now powered by a Turbo Charged 2AZ-FE. . .

. . . Armandio’s Titan v8 powered 350z was also present in the absence of the Indonesian drifting Phenomena.

This Ford Focus was just a neck breaking eye poppin attention getter that even photographers will snap to the death for pictures sake, thank God I gave myself a few distance.

And another neck breaker . . .

Simple and conservative Lexus Gs.

Hellafunctional STI

Now to be honest, I am a sucker for a modern muscle and one of my favorites are Pontiac GTOs and hearing their LS2 engines’ roar is like cupid’s harp to my ears. This Pontiac GTO converted to be a Holden Monaro was super clean and it even has Australian plates in it. It was truly a wonder to see one, how I wish somebody would knock on my door and hand over the keys for this fine piece of machinery.

Enough with my muscle dreams, in to the meet…. here we have a fine wide body s2k

a pair of ridiculously low cars

a nice looking functional 350z

another widebody s2k sponsored by BERK technology

Widebody evo on te37s

clean miata on work equips

s13 equipped with work equips (Say that 5x fast)

and another equips equipped vehicle, this ae86 was so clean inside and out.

the paint job on this 300zx was so clean

Team ar-kan’s EP3 on sprinthart cp3s wrapped on falken azensis rt-615k

rarely do I see a set of te37L , it was a treat for me.

from afar, I was able to spot this slammed Lexus GS on 7 series wheels . . .

Element on diamond racing wheels.. the plates made me laugh

On the other side of the building, I was able to spot this clean Acura legend

Moments later, I spotted this truck and new there will be a surprise coming out of the trailer.

Indeed, it did . . .

It was the bridges racing/achilles tires Lexus SC430 that will be driven by Daigo Saito and unfortunately, he wasn’t present during the tech day.

The car was treated like a god during its testing, it had alot of followers.

and once it got out…

I was able to get a glimpse of the 2jz p

the car was eventually hooked on to this

The 2012 Formula D champion, Daijiro Yoshihara, was also present. . . He was given the assignment to looked for cars to receive his new signature wheels.

one of the potential candidate for me was. . .

this s14.. and I dont think this is a kouki conversion..

did I mention that it has an awesome powerplant?

RB25!!

Moments later, a good amount of drift cars arrived.

Dave Briggs new 350z, I heard it now has a Nascar engine in it. Yes, it was very loud.

Ryan Kado’s 350z rocking its new livery

I am going to end this coverage with Ross Petty’s LS powered s15 and the camouflage isn’t vinyl.. its all paint!! Like the intricacy?

Enjoy!

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-RJ