5/14/13 Features : Corsport x Suba Performance : Yamaha Z powered C3

Welcome back to another addition of the StandardFunctions blog…

Its been a really hot minute since our last update and I still have so much to do. With the Annual RuckOut that just passed as well as the BIGGEST gathering of Honda Ruckus’ we know as SuperSunday… you can only imagine the updates I need attending to as well as the time needed to do so. With the popularity of Instagram now days, which is as easy as taking a photo from your smart phone and loading it up within seconds, one can wonder why the blog-side of this is so slow but to tell you the truth and headaches aside, I’d much prefer it this way. Let’s skip the small talk for the big SS post and we’ll keep this one easy and straight to the point.

Let me say this, Patrick has been updating us on a few pictures here and there as far as what he had in mind but no way did I imagine it coming out like this. At first sight during Friday of that Super Sunday weekend, I was truly at AWE. Just like the Ruckus (I’m sure most would agree), the crew at Corsports and Suba performance turned something commonly ugly (all other bad and fucked up names escape me at the moment) and made it into this street sweeper you see before you. The mix of parts and most importantly, IDEAS, turned this tame C3 into something special. Starting at the front wheel of course… a Rear “fatty” is one thing, hell an Advan A048 is another, but to get this to work on a Front wheel? Yeah… special I’m telling ya.

As much as I want to sit here and break down the details of what you’re missing behind the scenes from all the plastic that cover up the bike, you really have to see it for yourselves to truly appreciate the work. Hell on top of that, Patrick letting me know that this is only step one of the 3 of 4 more they have in mind, I can only wonder what they will come up with next.

The exhaust I hope eventually will get changed because such a build requires IMHO something better suited, but as simple and clean as it is already, this thing sounds proper cruising or full throttle as it exhales a perfect pitch for this z206cc powered C3… Yes, a Zuma big bored 206cc fuel injected motor takes the place of the original 49cc pee shooter that once was.

Adelin front BBK pairs perfectly with the REAR custom Adelin BBK in their signature Gold color which contrast the Blue and Carbon Fiber vinyl wrap perfectly on this rectangular scoot.

Excuse the poor photos my weak camera was able to take, this shoot lasted about 5 mins because we were in a Rush to get Patrick and Gordan loaded up and on the road back to Denver so they could escape this shittiest-life taking-time consuming-fire breathing drive we call Los Angeles Traffic.

Peep the rear Adelin disc brake coversion through the FLP cut SuperAdvan inspired 12×7 on the back wheel. Don’t mind the rear axle spacer, Patrick tells me this will be cut down in due time with a nice cap to cover.

The steering setup, not a bad way to spend a few hundreds bucks if I say so myself. The Chrome ACEWELL digital gauge is a very nice touch to that stock cluster fuck.

Rolling shots in 90 degree weather is always a good thing right?

DMBK

I highly doubt this.

and their off…

Mods list courtesy of Patrick in his own words via FB from CORSPORT. Knowing these guys, this is just the beginning to something even crazier. Just like us, stock is NEVER cool, these guys have so much more up their sleeves that I can’t WAIT to update you guys as soon as they finish. Cheers

OWNER : Troy Matta of Suba performance

“Yamaha Zuma swap with a bored and stroked Taida built 206cc
32mm Koso throttle body
Full samurai clutch and variator
Chimera Z1R mount machined to work for C3 chassis
Chimera rear disc brake conversion
ATR front hub with custom 1 off FLP front hub to rear wheel spacer
RPM front and Rin Parts rear rotor
Adelin calipers front and rear and twin master cylinders
Custom brake lines
RRGS forks with machine work to fit C3
EJK fuel controller from Dobeck Perfromance
Acewell speedo/tach
AEM air fuel gauge
Custom shorty header and exhaust from Steady Garage
Woodcraft and Composimo combo ‘race version’ handle bars
ATV foam grips
Custom vinyl wrap in satin blue metallic
Front and rear FLP Super 3s
Advan AO48s front and rear
Doppler air shock in the rear
Drow Sports Carbon CVT scoop and Starter motor cover
JDM Vox side stand
BTX air intake with 52mm Stage6 V-stack

I’m sure I missed some things but thats the meat and potatoes of it!
Thanks again man!
Patrick ”

Events : ALPINESTAR : The RUCKOUT2 : 3/23/13

ALPINESTARS : THE RUCKOUT 2

For those NOT in the know, we’ll be teaming up with the ALPINESTARS crew once again to bring the Ruckus for the 2nd Annual RUCKOUT tomorrow morning starting at ILLEST LOS ANGELES @ 10am. I’ll do everyone the favor of copying and pasting the info over here for your viewing pleasure. The StandardFunctions crew, Kiwi2racing, Stickybelts, and MildLA will be on display with a limited amount of “swag bags” to give away as well as a few of our new TEAM items up for sale. Come on down to support and enjoy a day of riding as we’ll be making a few guest stops at Corporate Honda to check out some goodies before making our way over to ALPINESTARS where you’ll be able to enter in for your chance to win a FREE Honda Ruckus.

Check it.

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(Quoted from the AlpineStars website)

It’s official. Ruck Out II is going down on March 23. Last year’s ride was perfect and this year will be better. We will again be departing from the Illest store in Downtown LA. We’ll take in some iconic Downtown and South Central scenery en route to Torrance. This year, we will be making a very special mid-ride stop. Honda is opening the doors of their secret museum to us. We’ve been. It’s dope. Trust. We’ll then carry on to Alpinestars for the meet, show, chill, raffle, music, etc..

Of course we’ll be giving away another brand new, 2013 Honda Ruckus among dozens of other prizes. If you didn’t join us last year… or if you don’t remember… get familiar here.

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We’ll see you guys tomorrow morning

-SF crew

AutoFashion v2.0 Grand opening 3/10/13

Sundays… Let me get to this before I lose my mind with all the madness happening here at the shop for Super Sunday 2013. Everything from special orders and custom parts that need attending to, I had to put some time aside for my fam over at AUTOFASHION and their Grand Re-opening. I’m not 100% on the reason of moving, but I’m assuming its for a change and a GOOD change at that because well, change is always good.

I spent a good part of Saturday to my damn self and just went to town on my project car to get it some what presentable for the event. I linked up with our good friends Big Steve (blue lexus LS) and Brian Banh (s2k) and arranged for an early AM meet up at the local town center for a nice 2 hour drive down to San Diego for the event. Everyone outside of California… we have this thing called day lights savings that so happened to kick in the night prior causing us to LOSE an hour of sleep, but that couldn’t stop us from going out to support the friends. A cup of coffee in the AM with a pack a smokes, and we’re on the way.

About an hour or so in, the sun finally set and I was asked to lead the way AKA you’re the test car for EVERY fucking bump on the 5 Freeway. I decided to finally try out that intelligent Cruise Control on the car which allowed me to take the mandatory “rolling in the back capture using the rear view mirror” shot… Everyone does it

We finally arrive to AF and found parking before the lot was filled and cars were forced to take over the neighboring lots. Let’s just say, as a business owner, you wouldn’t be happy having customers leave because they couldn’t find parking during peak hours. Talk about a grand opening and welcoming of a new neighbor huh? haha

Brian’s new look for the 2013 season. Be on the look out for more of this thing real soon as we will be participating and displaying with our Ruckus’ this show season.

Ran into our friend SAM IP taking photos like he usually does. His J’s inspired FD2 Civic is always a crowd favorite, Just look at this thing..

Another look at Big Steve’s freshened up LS400 for the 2013 year. Fucking love the new wheel combo and pinstripe work. It’s funny, because when we displayed our Original z125 swapped Honda Ruckus with his car a few years back at the Lexus “pursuit of speed” show, we were comparing the colors and wheels saying how dope it would be if he color matched the wheels and bam.. awesome.

Dedication..

Really clean JP inspired first Gen Lexus GS

SquadONE Lexus repping AF all the way from Las Vegas

My SD homie and mutual Car buddy Miggz parked right in front of AF with Skyline Mike right next to him. Bad ass fucking pairs of cars right here. I mean, the M is rare enough.. but how often do you get to see a Hakosuka roaming around?

I’m a sucker for Volks so lucky for me, Mackin IND. was on display to answer all my questions about a potential new set of rollers before the year ends.

Nice Honda Accord slammed to the ground on the side of the building before the opening speech.

Walked around some more before the Ribbon cutting which I missed due to the massive crowd. Depending on how you see it, that’s not a bad thing either because it goes to show you how many people want to be there to witness AF officially open its doors to its new 2013 location.

Turned around real quick and ran into a local celebrity and fellow Ruckus Fam, Noel of Canibeat

Freddie and Elroy making their rounds on the mic to welcome everyone to the opening, shortly after the speech, the doors opened up and I witnessed what could be a Youtube “black friday shopping/stomping” video. Gnar.

I waited a bit before heading inside so I could use the restroom and present the boys with a little gift and well wishes for continued success, knowing the AF guys, they would kill this for Breakfast… and technically, being the time of day it was, we would have… if we wanted to enjoy the rest of that Sunday like Bill Murrays “Groundhogs Day”

Inside the beautiful show room, lays a beautiful display Car.

Every time we make it down to SD for an event, It’s a must that I eat at the world Famous “PHILS BBQ” or else my trip wouldn’t be complete. So I called up some friends that lives in the SD area to scoop us up and prepare out stomachs for the 2 hours wait. Surprisingly, as soon as we got there, We got our table and food within 5 minutes of arrival, which is fucking mind blowing. IF you don’t know, do yourself the favor and Google this place. Make sure to visit when you can, TRUST me when I say because you won’t be disappointed. Get yourself an order of the Beefy rib.

After the meal, the lack of sleep was kicking in and to top it off, the Heavenly ribs we just had for lunch wasn’t helping at all. It was time to either sit around and suffer from Food coma, or use that time and drive our asses back home to get ready for the work week. Easy decision… I know. We made our way back to pick up our cars and say our bye’s BUT not before I made sure to grab myself one of their limited RIKKI ROSS tee’s. Make sure you run over to WWW.AUTOFASHIONUSA.COM to grab one for yourselves.

And we’re off. “Goodnight San Diego… Ron Burgandy signing out.” or whatever fucking line he says in that movie.

Thanks for the Autofashion USA fam for having us. Big Steve of Falken and Brian for the morning Caravan down to SD. NOEL of CANIBEAT and www.StyleoverComfort.com crew for taking care of us while we were down there + everyone else we may have missed during our stay. We’ll catch you soon with some updates on some Ruckus Projects as well as our Annual Super Sunday countdown. Until then! Don’t forget to follow us on our Social Media outlets for additional updates on all things SF.

IG : @standardfunctions
Twitter : @STDFNCTNS

Mahalo brehh

-Minkus

StandardFunctions : Project 4 wheels

“Two wheels are cool, but…”

Long story short, (I say this in everything post) I purchased a vehicle as a personal project of mine a few years back. I’ve always been a fan of the whole “VIP” movement over there in Japan and here states side. Getting to know Fred and crew over at AutofashionUSA only fueled the fire to do more. These guys have been on that luxury sedan game before many here even knew it was possible. Coming from the automotive background, before falling in love with the Honda Ruckus’ of course, Kevin and I have always been some what of a gear head. Whether it be playing Grand Turismo on PlayStation or pre drivers licensed RC car racing, the need to modify something was always there. Flash forward a couple years once StandardFunctions was finally setup and running itself, I decided to purchase another “toy” if you will and add my own taste to it. #daretobedifferent was not only a slogan of ours but we’ve always tried to apply it to everything we do in life. Thus, this car was chosen, the rare infiniti M45.

It was a corny love-at-first-sight kinda story. Not only is this one of the rarest Infiniti chassis here in the states (only sold for 17 months here in the US), its unique body design struck me Benjamin Franklin looking for electricity. Months later, I find one that finally suited me with whatever money I had and *bam* I brought home this DUB magazine worthy ~~trophy~~ piece. Its was not appealing to me at all but it was clean enough since it would eventually go through its changes to where you see it now. Why I never posted it on this blog? It really has nothing to do with Standardfunctions, but for those looking for read, I’m willing to tell it.

Since purchase date, I’ve documented every little thing I’ve done to this car in hopes of making a “build” thread… but where the fuck am I going to post it besides the local (my favorite I might add) VIPSTYLECARS.com forum. But here’s the kicker, I never nor will I ever call it a “vip” car or build. Just like the Ruckus, I thought I’d mash some of the styles I’ve always loved and combine it into one.

So I drove this car around for a few weeks until the bug bit, and this sucker bit hard. Not knowing what I was doing but spend countless hours browsing the net for parts. I come up short and found little to NO after market support whatsoever here in the states so I was forced to do a bit of international Japan shopping (sounds just like the good ol’ Ruckus days doesn’t it)

Countless wheels and different Coil over and Spring setup’s later… It was off to AF to get get my car where I needed once I got all the “numbers” dialed down. I had the guys set me up with the best in the business, and Freddie and crew got my car on the floor with an Air Runner airbag system.

The AWFILMS served as a friendly reminder that I WANTED more from the car, so Freddy got me my Mode Parfume Aero kit to complete the setup. Off to paint it goes and I attended a few shows in conjunction with the Ruckus to display for us and the Autofashion family. I’ve been a fan of Mode Parfume and I love that fact that ALL of their car’s were on SSR wheels, so I just had to continue with that theme in this build

Yogi of Fatlace did me the honor of doing a photo shoot for me as a feature.

as well as the guys from FelgenOutlet all the way from Europe to snap a few with my hometown’s skyline as a backdrop.

2013 came around and I felt the need to change it once again. (Ruckus Talk) I recently bought a BBK because the stock brakes weren’t cutting it for car. The over sized replacement’s coming for the car required new wheels due to disk sizing, the old SSR’s had to go and a call to my friends over at PlatteFormeAG took care of that for me… Now to get them mounted up.

It sounds easy and some would assume that money is nothing over here but in reality it is. I’ve worked hard and spent countless hours saving getting it to where its at and I want to say its finished, but like any other project of ours, its never done until its done. Until the pink slip is signed over and the new owner drives it off, its far from over and I will continue to enjoy this car because it serves as a reminder as an accomplishment to me and the work we’ve done here at StandardFunctions. I hope you guys enjoy the read as much as I liked telling it.

Updates soon

-Ming
StandardFunctions

A day in the life : R.O.A.R TQ RC race // Chaps Garage grand opening 1/27/13

hi·a·tus (h-ts)n. pl. hi·a·tus·es or hiatus 1. A gap or interruption in space, time, or continuity; a break
Now that we got that out of the way, lets get straight into something that I’ve personally been waiting for.
Kevin (I know right) and Matt and have been long time friends with us here at SF. When the idea of a shop opening for the Orange County Ruckus guys came up, I was happy it was no other than Chaps and crew.

Honest Mike MOTOIQ Internet radio interview

Our boy and resident SF blogger was asked by the fellas over at MOTOIQ.com to participate on their online radio talk show to discuss what we all love, the Honda Ruckus. From his humble beginnings to where hes at now and where he’s headed. Our 66cc GET engine getting a bit of love. Click the link and enjoy.

Awesomeness begins at the 17:00 mark.

MOTOIQ interview

Features : GDLK 2.0 Honda Ruckus : Chicago : LOS Garage

Let me tell you something about our friend Sonny, don’t ever bother trying to play a round of Street Fighter with this guy unless you know what you’re doing. Trust me. After a long day at work, and you just so happen to get a challenge from said ChronicRebellion on PSN, you think “hey, why not?” Don’t accept, I’m just saying. Dudes a monster… and that reflects on his bike build. A fucking monster. Godlike, if you will

BLOX OPEN HOUSE 2012 : Event Coverage part 1

What better way to spend a Friday at the office in 90 degree weather preparing this years 2012 BLOX coverage? It’s a hot one this time of year in Cali. Your best bet is to find shade somewhere, under a tree perhaps, and enjoy your time there while reading this since most of your guys are on your phone anyway.