Hello everyone, my name is mark manansala, im 18 and im new to the forum

long story short, i started drifted last season and have about 3 months worth of driving under my belt. With some of my potential showing it was time to undergo a new build to perform even better next season. My brother and his parnter recently opened a shop called pride performance based in freehold nj. With the new shop opened and new partners supporting us, we can't wait to see how this season will be!

feel free to visit www.pride-performance.com

now on to some of our projects:

starting with a timeline of myself...

heres my very first 240 when i was 16


the motor it had


unfortunately i left it at red**** and all my parts got stolen...

so then i had to come back with sumthin to drive and here i am with this car at 18. stock sr and suspension pieces just to get me going.


did some of this for the first time




then i brought it back home and did some more



soon the car was hurting for attention, so i got a new kit and got the car wrapped in vinyl.

fresh out the booth



come closer




more of this again




and when things couldnt get worse my old teammate crashed the car into the wall and effed everything up. Luckily i had a shell in my backyard and just cut it up and replaced the old panel.

so then i drove 10 hours to VIR

first time there and i qualified 12th out of 16 but couldnt compete cuz i didnt have an x bar






my car at the end of the season

 

sorry for massive pic thread but i have a lot to show

so now that seasons over it was time to rebuild my first car and heres a build up of it along with my teammates s13

my car use to be like this.


to this




i finally had time to start workin on it. And im getting it prepped for a roll cage.



this took countless hours of scrubbing with a brillo pad and simple green...




the only thing that keeps me wanting to finish this car!
My ka!!

Rebuilt with BC internals







i gotta a lot of work to do, but its just a matter of putting it back together when i get it back from the shop.

Now onto my buddy steves story haha.

We went to vir last year, stayed there for the weekend, drifted for a full day and a half, qualifying comes around, bang he somehow managed to crash pretty bad sending his car into a wall.





luckily we managed to get a shell for 300 bux from a good friend of ours. And we started work immediately. His build is farther then mine being he started a few months ago and his car is near completion















and the facility we work in haha


after the cars were prepped we sent our cars to get cages. Steves was done at pro fab, mine was done by LM24.

steves






heres steves cage painted east coast gray












his car is almost done, just need to wire it in, get some parts, get it wrapped, and hell be sliding shortly.

 

back to my car

supy star at work














those towers were made cuz my floor is madd rusted and we couldnt put plates like most cages....

supy star at work




LM24 biatch



its gettin there...
































just keep adding more and more bars






chromoly so i can drift on my roof


thro the firewall


more random pics i took








custom low *** seat mounts! i might need to sit on a phonebook....




props to my boy andres for the sick shots. visit www.andresb.com for his amazing work











i picked up a z32 trans tonite and the car should be done with fabrication and back into my hand in bout a week or so. I gotta take off the subframe and clean it up, paint it, put suspension pieces on, paint the cage, interior, bay. From there its putting the motor together and wiring.

 

heres some of our other pride vehicles

our r32



had a blown motor


so we took the motor out of our r33 and put it in the r32


its on twin disco's pushing 500hp on a stock motor. This car will be used in the street class for time attack, planning on more mods on this car in the future.

our r33




as it sits now


this car will be used to compete against top tuners in redline time attack. it will have a 900+hp tomei motor....

our sc300



the motor that was in the car


its in the far back


can u say 1 of 2 authentic vertex kits?

oh and our lil hamster haha



hope u guys like my huge pic thread

feel free to check out www.pride-performance.com

 

someone move this topic to the show and shine section plox

 

bit excessive with the cage mate

 

moved to show and shine.

and holy ****!

what do you guys do to make such money?

 

Are you doing any sanctioned racing? That cage doesn't look like it'd be legal.. anywhere.

 

ahahah i knew i seen the blue sc300 bumper in the pics...nice builds..

 

i put all my money towards my car, but i wouldnt be anywhere if i didnt have sponsors. Luckily my brother works in the industry and got us where we are today.

this car will be used for non licensed events as of now, once i get to that point ill just have to pull some strings

 

Sigh, it must be nice to be Ernie and Mark. The Big Dawggg Brothers
You make us small-timers quite jealous, especially in NJ area

 

lol i dont try to make neone jealous, just trying to help the scene around our area...

im here to help