The Supremacy Racing Family has sustained another loss.

As most of you saw Monday, June 28, 2010, around noon there was an accident on I-15 which caused the freeway to be shut down. The reason for the closure was a fatal car accident, one in which a vehicle ended up against a barrier then heading backwards colliding with a sign pole. The driver of the vehicle was removed from the vehicle by passers by, one of which tried to administer CPR. The driver of the vehicle was 27 year old Tony Khanhnara. He was a member of this forum(Yayo), a friend to me, and many others, and family to Frank and Kel. Tony was born May 20, 1983 in Layton, Utah. He graduated from Clearfield High School in 2001. Tony was attending SLCC. He was a man of few words at most meets, but in a small crowd would light up a dark room with wisdom, witty remarks, and just random banter. He was deep into the import scene "back in the day," but had put the car things to the side to further his education and take care of his son, Thaivone. After getting settled into a good job at Associated Foods, he had decided to get back into the game, as we all refer to it, as if people who leave the honda world are "in retirement." He had huge goals for his hatchback, and we discussed them often, as if to get each other motivated to get our cars going. Tony will be missed and remembered by everyone he met. Enjoy heaven with Billy, but hopefully you two leave some of the good stuff for the rest of us.







Funeral services will be held Saturday, July 3, 2010 at 1 p.m. at Lindquist's Layton Mortuary, 1867 No. Fairfield Road. Friends may visit family on Friday from 5 to 8 p.m. and Saturday from 11:45 to 12:45 a.m. at the mortuary. Interment, Lindquist's Memorial Park at Layton, 1867 No. Fairfield Road. In lieu of flowers and gifts family would like donations to be made in the name of Thaivone Khanhnara at Wells Fargo Bank.

The hardest post I'll probably ever have to type.

As I'm sure you're all aware our dear friend Billy Payne passed away Tuesday June 22, 2010. I got the news via text message Tuesday afternoon, which was followed by me opening utahhondas.net and sure enough there had already been a thread created for Billy. I dropped my phone and collapsed to the floor, I was hit with the loss like someone threw a cinder block at my stomach. I was supposed to work that afternoon, but I took the day off, there was no way I could focus, on anything. I headed to Supremacy to check on Frank, Kel and the rest of the SR family, when I arrived you could feel it in the air, the loss was taking it's toll on everyone. We were all calm, and quiet as 5:30 rolled around, we placed an open Corona by Billys' welding equipment and told him "you're late." No one wanted to believe that he was gone.



I have countless memories of Billy, even though I only knew him a few years, he was always nice, and always smiling. One of the most humble guys I had ever met! I remember at the meet that was a little bit after he got his motor first tuned and made over 200whp on his B-Series, he just pulled up and parked, it was I who had to walk over and make him pop his hood to show it off, I had to announce the arrival of the "K-KILLER" he had in his bay, he just smiled and started laughing. Then as the crowd formed he politely answered everyones questions. Another one of my memories of Billy was at the 8 year Anniversary meet at Supremacy at the end of April, I pulled in and parked and walked away. Shortly after I heard Billy yelling "Slut, Yo, Slut!" So I asked "What Billy?" and he said "I'm moving my car down by the door, grab your car and park next to mine." No one knew but I felt honored to park next to Bad Ass Billy, and I was excited because I knew, parked next to his car I would also get a lot more attention hahaha.



Thank you Billy, for being a friend, to not just myself but to everyone you met! Billy was the most helpful person I had met, the nicest guy, and one of the best examples I had. One of my inspirations, not only in the car world and him inspiring to "step my game up" but also as a father, so when the time comes that I am a dad, Billy has given me a great example to add to my list of them.



I love and miss you Billy Payne, you will be remembered FOREVER.

Tommys EVO

I first met Tommy around 4 years ago, I believe he had a "JDM'd" out RSX mobbin around Utah County. At the time I myself had an RSX as well. He then sold his RSX and picked up an Evolution(which you see here) instead of his 2nd choice an Infinit G35. Me and Tommy have remained friends and still chill at least once a week. Tommy is also going to be my official blog photographer, so keep an eye open for a weekly "Friends Ride" post.

Mod List

Exterior:
-IX Front Bumper
-APR Front Lip
-JDM IX Rear Bumper
-DIY VII Tail lights
-RallyArmor Mud Flaps

Wheels / Suspension:
-18x9.5 Rota Grid +20
-265/35/18 Kumho Ecsta
-Tein S-Tech Springs

Engine:
-IX Turbo
-ARC Airbox
-Precision 680cc
-Walsbro 255lph
-Nisei FMIC
-Turbo XS RFL
-HKS 272/272 Cams

Interior:
-Defi Gauges
-Gruppe-S Gauge Bezel
-AEM UEGO
-Apex'i Turbo Timer
-Sparco Pro2000
-Takata 4-point
-HKS Shiftknob









pics used were taken by Michael Chandler

michaelchandlerphotography.blogspot.com

The Meet of all Meets!

This past weekend was the annual Eibach meet in California, this meet has been dubbed the "Largest Honda Only Meet" and showcases hundreds of works of art. I hope someday to be able to attend and network some of the major players in the California import scene. Here are a few pictures that I found from the show, more pictures can be found here: http://honda-tech.com/showthread.php?t=2777185

A look at what inspires me.

First off sorry for the delay on this update, I'll try to update this more frequently for you guys.


This is going to be my first "what inspires me" post. Today you'll take a look at a gentlemans' build from NY, name is "Blazed" on H-T, K20a, etc I've been a fan of his car since I saw it back in 08 when he was rolling HARD with TA CE28s, a BYS bumper, shaved and tucked bay with what else, a K series. Needless to say I fell in love. When I started thinking about starting this blog I knew that I would post up some pics and parts of his build for you all to see. I reached out to him last week on k20a, and he graciously agreed to letting me use some of his pics to feature on my blog. His build thread is 20 pages long on k20a.org(which I will link at the bottom) so I won't be able to include everything but i'll try and give you all a good taste of what this K-swap King is doing.

His new build consists of:

IPS Spec JE 14.1 87.5mm pistons
IPS Spec Cunningham Titanium Rods
IPS Spec 99mm RDX Crank with widened journals ERL modified
ERL Superdeck K24 Sleeved/assembled
IPS KXV Camshafts
IPS Spec KXV Cylinder Head By MCPerformance with SuperTech valves, valvesprings, retainers
IPS Intake Manifold
Custom 321 SS header designed by Casey Heerman (Ekasey) / welded by DTR

So basically this car is going to SCREAM!!! Enough chatter I'll throw up a few pics now for you to enjoy-

Here it was back in 06




This is how it sat in 08, when it first caught my eye.





The look for 09.





This is how it looked 2/2010, it probably looks totally different now.





Such a sick car, I love everything about it. Nice work and dedication Blazed, keep it up!

As promised here is a link to the full build thread

http://www.k20a.org/forum/showthread.php?t=71618


And once again THANKS to Blazed for allowing me to show you guys what his build is all about, good luck with every veture you take on in the future man!

Happy Mothers Day!

Today began with giving my mother a card to celebrate mothers day, then with me to my work to use the lift to change the oil in my junkbox, and just finished up a visit to Brian(ek_brian) to have some stickers made. I love them, I've had this idea for a long time now just never made them. So without further ado here is my first sticker creation an Importslut Original!!!!!!




I will be selling them if I can get enough peopole interested in them! Feel free to comment me here or on Utahhondas.net or on FB.

Took a trip....

To Supremacy Racing today, another busy day for Kel and Frank. Zack was there working on brake lines in his K swapped EH, Ryan was tearing out his PS in his soon to be track prepped RSX. While Frank was examining data from last nights Midnight Drags. I was allowed to snap a few pics, all I had was my Iphone so you'll just have to make do with what I got haha