My past three days doing body graphics for a drift car

[92 mtechnic cabrio]

I would like to share with you guys my past few days' experience, it has been real fun.

I am friends with a Formula D and D1GP professional drifter, Quoc Ly. He has given me tons of business through Driftspeed cutting stickers. He also hooks me up with tires on the cheap and miscellaneous other services like alignments and use of their lifts and tools.

In preperation for Formula D, Driftspeed's upper management decided just two weeks ago that they were going to change their mind about which car to provide to my friend. This meant they needed time to find the car, tear it down, do seam welds all over the chassis, paint the car, make it flashy, fit the body kit, blah blah blah.

As Driftspeed's go-to guy for stickers, I was hired to apply body graphics and a car wrap for their new Nissan S14 240SX, They were last minuting everything and appreciated my work dearly. As soon as the car came out of the body shop, I attended to the car for the past three days, 6 hours the first day, 6 hours the second day, 13 hours the last day, on the last day we worked from 6pm until 7am.

It may seem like a long time, but we had to take a lot of breaks because the engine was being swapped at the same time and they still had to dyno tune it. Speaking of dyno tune, the car is putting out a conservative 459hp. The tune for 459hp is a safe tune, making sure the car will run extremely reliably, you could daily the sucker at this tune.

I spent a total of say 10 hours of straight work applying vinyl on this car.

Step 1 - Roof
- Cherry Blossoms
- Stream
- Japanese poem

Step 2 - Driver side
- Fan
- Dragon
- Girl
- Driftspeed logo

Step 3 - Passenger side
- Fan
- Dragon
- Girl
- Driftspeed logo

Step 4 - Finishing touches
- Sponsor logos
- Cover plexiglass windows' borders

Also, I had to assist Driftspeed's in-house vinyl guy with weeding stickers they were planning to give away. The owner kept changing his mind about how many he wanted made. First it was 100, then 200, then 500, then 1000, and finally 1500.

I am not in any of these pictures, the white guy you see is my friend who I hired to help me and the other guy are employees of Driftspeed.

[92 mtechnic cabrio]

Altogether, I charged them a little over $1300 for all my time and effort.

[M42Technik]

Dude that is awesome work! Nice stuff as usual Jon!

[One21Two]

Damn Jon. Thats dedication. I don't think I cud ever have the concentration to that. Dope tho. :up:

[Erick]

I dig. Hope to see it this weekend :)

[E30 Wagen]

That looks awesome!

[Teaguer]

Looks like badass work . :up:

Forgive my noob question mang but I've always wondered about those multi colored vinyls, say like the one with the samurai chick, is it just like white vinyl and your printer/plotter or whatever prints the different colors right onto one piece of vinyl ?

[92 mtechnic cabrio]

Here's Quoc's old car, before he crashed it at the D1GP season finale. I also did the body graphics on this car.

[92 mtechnic cabrio]

Looks like badass work . :up:

Forgive my noob question mang but I've always wondered about those multi colored vinyls, say like the one with the samurai chick, is it just like white vinyl and your printer/plotter or whatever prints the different colors right onto one piece of vinyl ?

Yeah the intricate printed ones were made in Japan and shipped here exclusively for this car.

[92 mtechnic cabrio]

And here is the old car in it's retired state (still taking up a lift) :(

[92 mtechnic cabrio]

another car with my stickers on it, Driftspeed's RHD S15 for hired Japanese drivers like Mitsuru Haruguchi (winner of Formula D last season)

[FredK]

wow, everything looks pretty cohesive. Sweet job!

[Jeremiel5]

wow! damn, Jon, good job like always! when you putting stickers on your e30? lol, :jk:



hey, you didn't sell your e30, right?

[z50_Jumper]

Looks good.

[Jand3rson]

How much for that same graphics kit for my car?









:P

Looks badass, Jon. Amazing work.