Chris Forsberg Racing

Super Pit Cart!

Chris Forsberg — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:18:38 +0000

Whilst we are rebuilding some stuff on the car to get ready for the 2010 season… Kevin wanted to make our golf cart more track ready! Our golf cart used to look like this. It had a big bed on it and fit a lot of junk in it, but it wasn’t ever organized.

So the plan was to make a slightly larger bed to hold the tires, fuel jugs, jack and jack stands. And everything was made out of aluminum to cut down on weight so that we could carry more parts.

But even better, Kevin raised the bed so he could make drawers to hold all of our Genius Tools and spare parts!

Almost done!

XDC coming in 3 days!

Chris Forsberg — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:22:31 +0000

I do not remember if I posted about this on my website, but I am one of the three judges of the XDC series. I think this is going to be an awesome event and exactly what we have been needing for the sport of drifting in America. See you there!

Fan Art

Chris Forsberg — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:58:30 +0000

I received some artwork in the mail recently. It is a painting of the SR car and then was mailed to me from someone. I do not know who to thank for this, so I finally thought to just post it up on my blog and hope the artist sees this.

Thank you for the artwork!

Urban Racer Interview

Chris Forsberg — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:46:41 +0000

Last night I did an interview with Urban Racer for the 2010 Formula Drift fan guide. They filmed the interview so that we have a copy of it to watch, as well for them to go back and review for the text that will be in the guide. I had to stop myself once or twice and start over… I am gettin rusty in the off season!

Hopefully I get a copy and I will post it up on here…

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!