Basic Rules For The Photography Impaired
* Wait until late afternoon/dusk/sundown (or very early morning) to shoot your car.
* Find a plain background (a clean wall behind your local supermarket or school, for example) and park about 20 feet away to create some depth. Make sure there are no trees, light/telephone poles or other distractions in the shot. also, avoid parking on grass, dirt or in a parking lot with painted stall lines.
* Make sure the sun is behind you.
* Look in your camera's viewfinder and make sure your shadow isn't in the frame. leave some room at the edges of the frame. (don't zoom in super tight on the car).
* digital photos need to be minimum of 300dpi and about 4x4 inches. your best bet is to shoot on your camera's highest resolution setting.
* for best results, use a tripod. if your camera allows manual shutter settings, try shots at 1/60; 1/40; 1/30-seconds, with and without flash.
* Send digital images to: editorial@hondatuningmagazine.com with the subject header: "Grassroots." send no more than 2-3 images and keep image sizes to 1MB.
* Please Send Prints via snail mail to: Honda Tuning, Attn: Grassroots; 2400 East katella ave., anaheim, CA 92806
1995 Civic LX Sedan
Driver: Turntune
TURF: Boca Raton, FL
How I Spent The $$$: Denji dual projector-angle eye headlamps with low beam HID's, vison corners, black headlight eyebrows, Mini Cooper side markers, vented hood, 15-inch RS limited rims painted gloss black and polished lips w/ 205/55 Nitto Neogen's, '91 USDM CRX Si front seats, A-pillar pod with vac, oil pressure, and O2, aluminum dash w/ Indiglo overlays, B&M short shifter and apc dropped ball shifter, JVC head unit, Clarion EQ, two Punch 60's and one Power Acoustic 1600, Polks up front and back and two 10-inch alpine type E's, stock D15B7 shortblock, ported, polished, and milled .010-inch EDM D16Y8 head, JDM D15B VTEC camshaft and valve springs, crower valve retainers, Megan Racing header, A-spec racing muffler, Honda CBR ITB's on a modded D16Z6 intake manifold, OBX cam gear, NGK iridium's, MSD blaster 2 coil, Innovate LC-1 wideband, all kept together with Uberdata, Skunk2 lowering springs and camber correction kit, Monroe Sens-A-Trac struts, GS-R front and rear sway bars, del Sol VTEC rear lower control arms, tie bars in front upper and lower, and rear lower.
We Like: It's nice to see that someone paid attention to our homemade ITB tech article for single cams in the February '05 issue.
1997 Civic EX
Driver: Brandon Cribb
TURF: Cribbtown, CA
How I Spent The $$$: CTR grille, EK9 sidemarkers, Password JDM fenders,Spoon replica mirrors, SIR headlights, Civic SI taillights, Mugen plate bolts, Mugen exhaust, Enkie mesh wheels, del Sol seats, CTR cluster, SIR steering wheel, Buddy Club knob, Kenji ECU, B18C1 engine, MSD ignition, AEBS intake manifold, AEM intake, AEM fuel rail, AEM fuel pressure regulator, Megan header, Mugen strut bar
We Like: He's got a good thing going with the del Sol seats and GS-R engine.
1988 CRX HF
Driver: Frank Rowland
TURF: L.A. and Belize
How I Spent The $$$: AEM CAI, DC Sports header, GReddy exhaust, Bronze Volk Racing TE37's, PYR ecu, stage 3 clutch, Eibach springs on Tokico Shocks and a SOHC ZC engine.
We Like: Surprisingly, the paint and the rims match... somewhat.