Chris Forsberg Racing

Exterior Upgrades

Chris Forsberg — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:52:10 +0000

I got my SSR wheels back from powdercoat and man they look awesome! They stripped them all the way down to the raw aluminum so that they did not just spray right over the old powdercoat.

Putting all the valve stems back in…

I love the way the white accents the vinyl on the car, and the brightness of the wheels will showoff the angle that this car is capable of!

Best of LA Episode

Chris Forsberg — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:36:26 +0000

I posted a couple pics and videos from our day of shooting for the Best of LA show that was shown on KCAL 9 just recently. I went to their website and found the full episode, it is shown in conjunction with other “Best of’s” so make sure to keep watching as the Sam’s Auto Land portion continues later in the episode.

Click here to see Sam’s Auto Land on Best of LA

2009 Championship Ads

Chris Forsberg — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:24:48 +0000

Just in time for the Formula D season to start… I found these two ads yesterday when the magazines came in the mail. This Formula Drift ad was found on page 63 of Super Street Magazine.

And this Maxxis Championship ad can be found on page 9 of the new DSport Magazine.

Rebel 8 Clothing

Chris Forsberg — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 03:33:22 +0000

I got a package recently from a brand called Rebel 8. They make a wide range of artwork and clothing that is all made in house. Every piece of artwork is hand drawn and not altered with digital enhancing in any way. The founder’s clever means of hand drawn art and guerrilla marketing built this clothing brand up to be internationally recognized.

Here is a couple of the shirts that they make…

And they also sent me this sweet jacket!

Check out the rest of their stuff at www.Rebel8.com

Solar Panels and New Parts

Chris Forsberg — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:38:07 +0000

Got some more work done on the rig. We have been building racks to get stuff up off the floor and make more space for this season. One of the things we also installed was a solar panel on the rig help keep the batteries fully charged up between trips.

I then picked up a couple more SSR Type F rims for the rear of our 350Z. Then I took all of our rims and loaded them up to take to powdercoat! I wanted to change up the car a lil bit and make the rims brighter and more coordinated with the car. So I am powdercoating all of our rims gloss white.

The rims needed to be sent out on a pallet to get the current powdercoat stripped off.

Lastly I picked up some new dry carbon rear quarter panels from Seibon. My passenger side has had a hole in it since Sonoma, so I have been waiting to fix it till right before the season started.

Took the rear quarters up to Sam’s Auto Land to have the antenna and gas door filled, then I will lay the stripes down to get painted.

Maybe my old quarter panel will end up on the wall!

Hot Line and Trailer Prep

Chris Forsberg — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:19:17 +0000

Stopped by Hot Line yesterday to meet up with Dave Briggs and Justin Pawlak. Justin is going to be bending up some new front and rear bumpers for Dave’s car and I will be helping with some body and suspension work. Justin’s shop is packed! Nice to see business is going well!

Here’s Ryan Clemens finishing up the cage on one of the many FC’s at Hot Line. Ryan is a great fabricator from the midwest that has been working at Hot Line for the past 2 weeks or so.

They are in the middle of a cage on this old 911 as well. Look how well the cage is tucked up to all the pillars for a super clean finish. The bars are so close that they are welded straight to the pillars, no need for dimpled braces to fill the gap.

Then today I picked up the rig from storage so we could clean it all up and get it ready to go to the track again! We emptied the whole thing out front to back and Sergio helped me clean everything up. Good as new!

We went through our inventory and made sure the we were not missing any of our Genius Tools. Cleaned off the tool box and wheeled it back inside. Ready to go!

Feature in Automundo Magazine

Chris Forsberg — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:25:03 +0000

I just received a copy of the February issue of Automundo Magazine that has a 4 page feature of our championship finish at Irwindale. Automundo Magazine is the premier Spanish language automobile magazine published in the US.

I also found this full page ad from Formula Drift a couple pages later.

Check out this link for the full online magazine and the full feature on page 76!

Automundo Online Magazine

New Quaife Transmission

Chris Forsberg — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:52:49 +0000

There has been a lot of progress done to the 350Z in the past few weeks. The car is going to be ready to start testing again shortly so I wanted to post up some updates.

The biggest modification that we are doing to the car for 2010 is our new Quaife sequential transmission! I cannot wait to get to the track to try this thing out. The gear ratios are better and the I-pattern will help me feel more confident during upshifts on more technical tracks.

The transmission has a relocated shifter so I can place it where I need it to be. You can really see the quality of the product by the detail they put into every detail.

350Z in the Nissan Motorsports Calender

Chris Forsberg — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:28:05 +0000

I just received a few copies of the Nissan Motorsports 2010 calender today. The 350Z was posted up as the month of October!

Photo credit to Michael Groh!

RX7 front end cleanup

Chris Forsberg — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:42:12 +0000

So I finished up removing all the bent/ripped metal on the front end of the FC. It’s starting to look a lot better already. First I took a spot weld driller and drilled out all the spot welds on the frame rails to free up all the extra sheet metal. And then cut along the frame rails and the strut towers to remove all the excess.

I cut along the seam of the strut towers so that there was still a good amount of strength left in the towers. The frame rails and the strut towers were not damaged at all and still in perfect condition.

Now with everything removed its time to start rebuilding the front end!