This Lancer not only sets the bar high for its fellow Lancers, but also for Evolutions. Calvin’s Lancer is sitting nice and low thanks to a set of BC Racing BR Type coilovers with a square setup of 18×8.75 XXR 527′s wrapped in 215/40/18 Falken 912′s. As you can see, his wheels have been custom powder-coated ‘baby blue’ to set it apart from the rest. Like most people in the fitment culture, Calvin has gone through many adjustments prior to his current setup. Through numerous trial-and-error processes, he never lost hope and instead constantly pushed the envelope with his Lancer.

Mod list: 

Wheels & Suspension
XXR 527 18×8.75 +20 Custom powdercoated ‘Baby Blue”
Falken Ziex-ZE 912 215/40/18
Project Kics R40 NeoChrome Extended lug nuts
BC Racing BR Type Coilovers
Custom rear camber kit

Exterior

Eyelids
Evo X Projectors
Front V-Lip
Mazda 3 side extensions
Rear diffuser lip

Interior
Sparco Sprint 5 Bucket seat
ARC Shift knob
T1R Shift boot
Keys Racing steering wheel 325mm
NRG Short Hub and Quick Release

Performance
K&N Intake
Injen SES Axle Back exhaust

Hard work pays off and Calvin’s Lancer is finally getting the attention it deserves. With time, money, and effort, this non-Evo Lancer has been built from the exterior to the interior to stand tall for it’s fellow non-Evo’s. On a side note, don’t forgot to join us this weekend at our 4th Annual Fitted Lifestyle Event. Calvin is showing some love for the event too!

What really caught our eyes was Nukool’s personal car, an AE100 Toyota Corolla.  This car is found to be most peoples winter beaters locally in Toronto, but Nukool embraced his Rolla and did his custom build to make a crazy fitted car.  We had to ask Nukool, why did he pick this Corolla?  He responded:

“I had a personal connection with this car from when I was younger.  I grew up with it , as it was my relative’s taxi cab.  When I came of age to build a car, I wanted to do it to an AE100.  Parts for it were cheap enough to fit into my budget, and there is a wide variety of parts available for it here in Thailand.  There are a wide variety of body parts but I can gladly say that I am the first person to bring the AE100 into the fitment game in Thailand.”

The fitment part for the car was the difficult part.  There was a lot of customizing just to get the car to drive with this fitment.  First the frame had to be hardened and a AE101 Toyota Levin frame was modified onto the car.  To get the height , there wasn’t a standard coilover available and able to achieve the camber specs.  The AE101 Shock Absorbers were used but was also customized extensively via shortening the mounts, adjusting the mount bolts to allow camber adjustment.  Even after this, the car was not low enough, so Nukool adjusted the car frame to sit even lower with more custom frame work by his friends at REAL LOW.

After all that work, it allowed him to fit these very aggressive and unique 16″x9″ Deerfield Wheels in et-13 offset .  They were made in 5×114, so Nukool changed the hubs from 4×100 to the 5×114 to fit the new wheels.  Finally, he has some 195/45/16 Nankang NS2 while the camber is at -9 up front and -7 in the rear.  With all the extensive work done to the car, we feel it really paid off.  We finally asked if he had any more plans for the car, and he told us more fabricating to the control arms and adjustments to the coilovers for a lower and more aggressive fitment.

Parts List:

Wheels:
Deerfield Wheels 16″x9″ -13
Nankang NS2 195/45/16

Suspension/Brakes:
Toyota Levin AE101 parts design by REAL LOW
Toyota Levin brake calipers
Toyota Levin shocks strut
Honda Integra DC2 Hubs
Cusco Lower Arm Bar
E-Spec Steering Column

Engine:
20v 4age blacktop 5speed
Trust muffler 3”
Apex-i RSM

Exterior:
Color – Margaret Brown b09 Standox
Custom Rear Diffuser

Interior:
Miracle Cross Bar
D.I.Y. Steering Wheel
Recaro SPG bucket seats
Custom Tiger Interior Print
Sabelt 4 point Belts
Custom 6 Point Roll Bar

We want to thank Nukool Moolchot for allowing us to feature his car and also ‘nOngGoLf Photography for the great photos.

The build quickly began after Open Road dropped off a brand new FR-S to the SR Auto Group showroom, and they went ahead with ordering the appropriate parts. First order was to cut the fenders to adapt the wide body Rocket Bunny flares.  A new front lip, side valences, rear diffuser, and signature big GT Wing completed the Rocket Bunny transformation.  To add to the racing image of the car, they added a Seibon CF hood, fog light covers, and CF APR Racing mirrors.  These fine tune touches helped bring the overall appearance of the car together.

An aggressive footprint was required to complement the kit so custom spring rate coilovers from BC Racing were introduced into the fold.  The 10k spring rates matched up with the Rays Engineering rims help finish a subtle but very drivable stance.  The fitment, as is with all the Rocket Bunny cars, is made for looks along with performance dishing out concave Rays Gram Light 57 Extremes in Winning Blue; definitely a winning combination.

To finish the performance off on the car, SR Auto Group installed a pair of Invidia exhausts which are tucked away nicely under the rear diffuser.  All of the finer details combine nicely to create this beautiful piece of machinery.

Mod List:

Wheels
Rays Gram Lights 57 Extreme, 18×9.5, 18×10.5 | Winning Blue

Suspension
BC Racing Coilovers

Exterior
Rocket Bunny Wide Body Fender Flares
Rocket Bunny Front Lip
Rocket Bunny Side Skirts
Rocket Bunny Rear Diffuser
Rocket Bunny Rear GT Wing
APR Carbon Fiber Side Mirrors
Seibon Carbon Fiber Hood
Seibon Carbon Fiber Fog Light Covers
Bespoke Smoked Headlight Housings
Candy Red Tail light Surroundings

Performance
Invidia Catback Exhaust System

Stretch and Poke would like to thank SR Auto Group for allowing us to feature the first Canadian Rocket Bunny FR-S! Special thanks goes to Kevin Yong for supplying the amazing photographs.

A larger venue means we can provide a larger show! This year, we will be including a Free Indoor RC track sponsored by TBA Apparel, live music from Keep It Live Entertainment’s DJ Woo, an interactive text-to-vote award courtesy of PAS mag’s Tuner Battlegrounds Live, and Food Truck alley served by The Feisty Jack and Smoke’s Poutinerie!

Of course, all our famed Custom Trophies are up for grabs and this year, we’ve added more categories for increased chances to win! Also, every attendee receives a raffle ticket for our giveaways. Our sponsors have graciously donated a wide-range of apparel and automotive parts as prizes!

This year, we are introducing admission fees to support the operating costs at the Fairgrounds. Admission to Fitted is a low fee of $15 CAD/person at the door and $12 CAD/person for advanced tickets. Advanced tickets can be purchased as of Monday April 15, 2013 at Righteous Garage (519) 654-6587 and Nextmod Toronto (416) 800-9139. In addition, partial proceeds from admission will be donated to the Canadian Cancer Society! Your attendance not only supports the fitment scene but aids Cancer research!

Fitted begins promptly at 11:30am! Please arrive early to secure a parking spot. Each year, attendance has grown and reached capacity so we highly encourage you to plan your cruise appropriately! Peep last year’s Canibeat video for an idea of how quickly attendance builds! For further encouragement, the FIRST 1000 attendees will receive a free giveaway while supplies last!

Note: Please drive responsibly to the event. Local Police authorities have been informed of our presence so speeding will NOT be tolerated.

We’re going to start this season with a bang! Thank you to everyone for the continued support and we’ll see you at the 4th Annual Fitted Lifestyle event!

Ryo shot this particular car from the warehouse of K-BREAK, a renowned VIP tuner in Japan. This 3rd generation Honda Civic hatchback, dubbed the “Wonder Civic”, belongs to K-BREAK’s very own president, Mr. Oobayashi! Who would’ve thought he was a die-hard Honda fan at heart?! In case you’re wondering what exactly makes this Civic the “Wonder”, you’re not alone. I had the same questions and was schooled by Ryo on some Japanese terminology on how they’ve named these generations of Civics. Apparently, the names started at the 2nd generation Honda Civic and goes as follows:

2nd generation – SUPER CIVIC
3rd generation – WONDER CIVIC
4th generation (EF) – GRAND CIVIC
5th generation (EG) – SPORTS CIVIC
6th generation (EK) – MIRACLE CIVIC
7th generation (EU) – SMART CIVIC

So what makes the Wonder Civic generation so special? Old school Honda enthusiasts should know that this was actually the first Honda to win the Japanese “Good Design Grand Prize” and the “Japan Car of the Year” when it first debuted. These are accolades that placed Honda on the map, helping to produce better Civics on each consecutive generation. The Japanese and especially Honda, consider the Wonder Civic to be an epic legend in its own right.

Coming from the president of K-BREAK, we’re not surprised this Civic is far from stock. The car has been modified to fit what the Japanese call the “Real Sports Style”, comparable to the Group A Mugen Racing Civic. As you can tell from the pictures, race-spec is in full effect!

The photos that Ryo captured of this car are outstanding. We can really tell Mr. Oobayashi has taken the utmost care in preserving the legendary integrity of this car. It’s definitely a time capsule piece in an amazing condition!

We hope you enjoyed this feature from Ryo and our friends at USDM Freax! Special thanks to Ryo Kaneta for shooting and sharing this feature with S&P!

In today’s aggressive fitment culture, there are a slew of crews. Some small and some who roll deep with worldwide street cred. Well, I’m here to talk about one such crew, our local hometown heroes – Level One. If you’ve been sleeping under a rock, this Canadian crew has been pumping out insane builds on all your favorite blogs including Canibeat and Stancenation. We’ve featured some of their cars as well, and during a recent chat with Galen Wan, one of the founding members of Level One, I was informed that they had recently established a Japanese chapter! Of course, I had to know what was up so Galen connected me with Level One Japan crew leader, Hiroki Matsuo, to get the skinny on how they roll in the land of the rising sun!

Level One Japan recently started after Hiroki and a large majority of Japanese Honda S2000 tuners took notice of the Level One cars. Hiroki had an idea about starting the Level One Japan chapter so he dropped Galen a note with a few pictures of their rides. The respect was mutual and needless to say, Galen and the rest of Level One liked what they saw! Level One Japan was officially established!

The crew in Japan consists of approximately 12 active members. Although the majority of the members are pushing AP1/AP2s, the crew is not restricted to the S2000. In fact, there are other makes including a S14 and FD3S.

As stated before, the builds represent quality and are undeniably clean. In fact, any car within the Level One Japan chapter could easily be imagined rolling the streets of Canada and nobody would know they were from Japan. Just a testimony to show that both chapters share the same design ethic and taste!

These photos were exclusively captured for us by Masanori Tsujita. Unfortunately, not all Level One Japan members were present during the night shoot. Nevertheless, here’s the roll call for the team:

Hiroki Matsuo, Saitama
2002 Silver Honda S2000 (Work XD9 18×10)

Shunsuke Takahashi, Tokyo
2002 Silver Honda S2000 (Work VS-XX F:18×9.5/R:18×11)

Kohei Miyata, Saitama
2004 Black Honda S2000 (Volk Racing TE37SL Ltd 18×9.5)

Yusei Nakatsu, Saitama
2002 Red Honda S2000 (Work Meister F:18×9/R:18×10)

Yuta Satou, Nagano
2001 Black Honda S2000 (Prodrive GC-07 F:18×8.5/R:18×9.5)

Shigeaki Hosoguchi, Kanagawa
2001 White Honda S2000 (BBS LM F:18×9/R:18×10)

Shun Saito, Kanagawa
1993 Grey Nissan Silvia S14 Kouki (Rays TE-37V F:17×9.5/R:17×10)

Hisashi Nishida, Kyoto
2000 White Mazda RX7 FD3S (BBS LM F:18×9/R:18×10)

Kouji Matsuzaka, Yamagata
2004 White Honda S2000 (Volk Racing TE-37SL F:18×9.5/R:18×11)

Reitarou Nishizaki, Okayama
2002 Black Honda S2000 (Work Meister S2R F:18×8.5/R:18×9.5)

Naoki Murashita, Toyama
2003 Blue Honda S2000 (BBS RGR F:18×9/R:18×10)

Genta Takeda, Nagano
2001 Silver Honda S2000 (CST Zero One Hyper 18×9.5)

I’d like to thank Galen, Hiroki, Masanori, and the entire Level One Japan crew for allowing us to see a glimpse of how they do in the far east. We wouldn’t be featuring these cars if they didn’t represent the best and Level One Japan certainly doesn’t disappoint!

C-West vs Chargespeed DC5 from fitted on Vimeo.

STEEZY FG2 from fitted on Vimeo.

 No doubt, Dan isn’t wasting any time. As you can see, the M3 is already slammed on stock wheels to give it a flush look, even during the winter season! Besides dropping his E90, he’s also begun exhaust modifications to make this clean looking M3 sound mean.

Not much is known about Dan’s plans for the M3 (edit: he’s keeping it secret) but in typical “danio” fashion, he promises to break necks this season. As enthusiasts, it’s tough to endure our winter weather as we abstain from anything car-related. However, we hope these pictures of Dan’s whip motivates you for the upcoming season just months away. Be sure to stay tuned for more local builds in progress and of course to witness whatever Dan has in plan next.

What we do want to talk about is the jaw-dropping and aggressive wide-body kit that the Cyrious FR-S is adorning on it’s sculpted body. In case you didn’t know, the wide-body kit was designed by another Canadian local who is quickly making his name in the scene – Matthew Law. The kit is a multi-piece affair produced under his auto design-house dubbed ML24. In conjunction with 20hz Audio, the kit will be produced in many package variations as of February 2013. ML24 has made the kit pieces easy to obtain if you’re into separate purchases versus the full-blown 8-piece FR-S/BRZ wide-body kit, which is limited to 10 sets by the way.

If you’ve been with us since the beginning, you’ll remember we did a special edition capsule collection tee from Matt. Back then we knew his talent would go far and he didn’t disappoint! Quite frankly, the kit is perfect. It literally seduces you into purchasing a FR-S/BRZ. Level of want is HIGH! With that said, Matt decided to torture us with a custom rendering of a Stretch & Poke! version of the ML24 car. We dubbed this “Mag Blue-kake!” This is exactly our iteration if we had access to a FR-S/BRZ (hint hint – Scion Canada and Subaru Canada).

The ML24 kit design inspiration comes from the Japanese Bozusuku style which is totally up our alley of aggressive wheel fitment. Matt wanted to emphasize more muscularity with the OEM fenders so that’s where the wide-body wheel arches came into play. We love the rivets which run along the entire perimeter of the arches. Although not included, the customer can choose any Rivet size they desire for their own custom look of retro-race vs clean show-car. Kit installed, the car will widen by 40mm up front and 65mm in the rear. The ML24 recommendation is to run 19″ wheels for this kit. Dear Scion or Subaru, help us shoehorn a set of 19×9 and 19×10.5 wheels onto this car. Let’s make this a reality! (end shameless begging – Scion or Subaru, call me).

You can find more information about the wide-body ML24 kit at their website – www.ml24.net. There’s product pricing and a large amount of meticulous information regarding the conceptualization, design and fabrication process. We have a feeling this is just the start of many good things to debut from the ML24 camp. Thanks for sharing with us Matt and also wishing we had a FR-S/BRZ in our greedy little hands!