BME Radio: 06/29/12

Time to get the party going ... enjoy your weekend!

Name-calling, complaints about the song choice, internet wars, and spontaneous freestyle battles are highly encouraged.

"Meat" - KGB

BME Radio: 06/28/12

Looks like we have missed a few says so I will post a couple here. It has been a busy week I am backed up with a couple updates on the STI and I have been dealing with trying to get parts here as soon as possible to get the car finished. Back orders and lack of communication is getting frustrating but people are busy this time of year in this industry. I will get to the actual car updates as soon as I can.

Name-calling, complaints about the song choice, internet wars, and spontaneous freestyle battles are highly encouraged.

"Killin It" - Krewella

"Silhouettes" - Avicii

"Daydreamer" - Flux Pavilion

BME Radio: 06/25/12

Song of the Day

Happy Monday! Err... Not so happy Monday, depending on what you're doing with your life. For many of us, Monday is one of those things that no matter how you try to look at it, it still sucks. When that alarm goes off in the morning, resisting the urge to just turn that f*cker off completely is really difficult. But, in order for many of us to support this expensive habit, we need to suck up the Mondays...

Name-calling, complaints about the song choice, internet wars, and spontaneous freestyle battles are highly encouraged.

"Changes" - Deftones

BME Radio: 06/22/12

Song of the Day

I've been listening to a lot of 90's rock this week, so I felt compelled to share some of the love. I hope that everyone has some good plans for the weekend! It's gonna be a scorcher here in South Carolina, as I'm sure it is in much of the U.S. this weekend. I should be test fitting our "street" version catch can kit tomorrow, as well. So keep an eye out for updates!

Name-calling, complaints about the song choice, internet wars, and spontaneous freestyle battles are highly encouraged.

"Cold Contagious" - Bush

BME Radio: 06/21/12

Song of the Day

Yesterday I came very close to buying the Battle Puppy; a little yellow labrador/retriever. Buuuut I didn't let myself cave in, I felt he was a little bit too young to be leaving his mother and that I might regret it in the long-run. So the search continues, and I will eventually have one... Anyway, here is a good song (and a really cool video) from Parkway Drive. I'm sure the message sums up many of our day jobs pretty well. Enjoy!

Name-calling, complaints about the song choice, internet wars, and spontaneous freestyle battles are highly encouraged.

"Sleepwalker" - Parkway Drive

BME Radio: 06/20/12

Song of the Day

Johnny Cash was and always will be a bad*ss. 'Nuff said.

Name-calling, complaints about the song choice, internet wars, and spontaneous freestyle battles will not be tolerated today.

"Hurt" - Johnny Cash (cover)

BME Radio: 06/19/12

Song of the Day

Pat sent this one to me later last week and I thought it was pretty cool, so here it is!

Name-calling, complaints about the song choice, internet wars, and spontaneous freestyle battles are highly encouraged.

"Rampage" - Fall of Icarus

BME Radio: 06/18/12

Song of the Day

This one is pretty classic, and you all should know it. A great song from one of the GREATEST MOVIES OF ALL TIME! Well, at least to the viewers of our blog... So close your eyes and picture yourself as Paul Walker racing his new 10 second car in a sandy desert. NAWZ!!!!!!!!!!

Name-calling, complaints about the song choice, internet wars, and spontaneous freestyle battles are highly encouraged.

Race Wars (Night Rave) - BT

BME Radio: 06/15/12

Song of the Day

Late post today. I have been working on the STI for a for most of the day and it looks like we will be done with all the wiring and fuel system by the end of the weekend. Hopefully next week we can get the engine assembled as well. Then we will only be waiting on a couple more things before being able to fire it up.

Mark is out of town this weekend but he just took delivery of a new BME prototype so once he is back he will be testing that for a while so that we can get it to market as soon as possible.

I think today we will go with a little Dubstep to get the weekend started right. I doubt many people have heard this one. Enjoy!

Name-calling, complaints about the song choice, internet wars, and spontaneous freestyle battles are highly encouraged.

"Shadows" by Mr Wonk

D*mn girl, got some junk in the trunk! Pt. 2

BME STI Build Update

Attention to detail has been a key to the success of our STI. If you haven't noticed yet, Pat is a bit anal-compulsive when it comes to making sure that everything is done perfectly the first time around. This week, he decided that he wanted to re-route the way that the fuel system was originally laid out. This meant making a new trunk floor by hand, because he just couldn't have a few extra holes in the floor. It has to be perfect, no screwing around. Simplicity was #1 in the reorganization, and I must admit that this was the right decision. The setup is much cleaner and the lines flow a lot better now.

All of the Aeromotive goodies are finally bolted in, and the Fragola lines and fittings have been a joy to work with. Everything is coming together nicely now, moving from the rear to the front. The new Mishimoto radiator was received and test fitted, as well!

For more detailed information and pictures visit these updates on IWSTI! 1 2 3

BME Radio: 06/14/12

Song of the Day

Alrighty, I'm going to get this out nice and early so that you all can jam for the rest of the day. I promise that I had every intention of posting last night, but then I grabbed some Carolina BBQ for dinner and got sleepy... Anyway, this song popped up on my Pandora and brought back some old memories. It was on my baseball pregame playlist my senior year of high school. Ahh the high school me was such a boss... I'm not sure what happened...

Like Pat said, we will have some really good updates on our STI today, so stay posted for that.

**I also just realized that there's a Subaru in the video :P

Name-calling, complaints about the song choice, internet wars, and spontaneous freestyle battles are highly encouraged.

"All These Things I Hate" by Bullet For My Valentine

BME Radio: 06/13/12

Song of the Day

It appears to me that the internet department is slacking again so this one is for the 13th which I guess is now technically yesterday. Tomorrow we will have some updates on the STI build to post when I find some time. In the meantime enjoy the song of the day and check back again tomorrow ... or later today I guess, however you want to look at it. If you have some work to do on your car throw some of this stuff on and shit will get done!

Name-calling, complaints about the song choice, internet wars, and spontaneous freestyle battles are highly encouraged.

"Face the Pain" by Stemm

BME Radio: 06/12/12

Song of the Day

Hello Everyone! We're glad to finally be back into the swing of things after a long drunken week in New York. I think I've finally caught up from my severe sleep deprivation, and finally remember what it's like to wake up without a hangover... Yesterday we were both busy with catching back up with everything and getting back into the swing of things, and it slipped our minds to post the song. We did have one picked though.

Name-calling, complaints about the song choice, internet wars, and spontaneous freestyle battles are highly encouraged.

Yesterday's
"Make It Bun Dem" by Damian Marley and Skrillex

Today's
"Lose It" by Atreyu

BME Radio: 06/05/2012

Song of the Day

As we mentioned we are both in New York for the day jobs. Unfortunately this leaves little time to update things especially daily. I did find tome time to get some BME work in tonight so here is a double SOTD for missing yesterday.

Both songs are just some random shit that has been on the I-Pod during the traveling, it will probably the same theme next time I get a chance to update. There is no continuity here just some random shit so here it is.


Name-calling, complaints about the song choice, internet wars, and spontaneous freestyle battles are highly encouraged.

"Testarossa" by PANTyRAiD

 "Never Enough" by Five Finger Death Punch

Hangover Diaries: Mark's Redneck Day

Yesterday was jam packed with fun-filled redneck activities for me. I started my day off by touring the upstate in the BME WRX. I got a chance to see the outskirts of Greenville,SC. It definitely is a way of life far different than what I am used to, having grown up near Chicago. There are a lot of small towns and your local "Bill's Muffler Shop" places. I definitely should start bringin my Subaru there for routine maintenance... HA! After cruising for about 2 hours in sunny 80 degree weather, I felt it was time to get out and stretch my legs a bit. I found myself at a flea market in Anderson, SC. Everyone is missing at least three teeth, as if everyone plays hockey for a living. Even when you see someone who looks to perhaps be normal you realize that they're walking their child on a leash with a tattoo that says "Ron's Girl" on her boob and a black eye... *Shrug. I was hoping to find some gem items that could be used in our future shop; anything from jacks to an old electric oven (for powdercoating) would have been great. I have been watching a lot of Storage Wars lately so I was pumped. But the sad reality of the situation is that I'm in trailerville, not Beverly Hills. So no such luck this time around. I did come pretty d*mn close to buying a puppy, though. There were some hillbilly women selling labrador/catahoula mix pups. They had 3 females left, one of which was a black/dark brown brindle... And all this for the low low price of $10! What a steal! But i held back... I have my heart set on a yellow blockhead male labrador retriever, and I'd rather wait and find one after I have a house to bring it back to. Later in the day, my buddy and I went to the circle track races at Greenville-Pickens Speedway. I wore my yellow JEGS hat in a desperate attempt to blend in, but I'm sure they could see through my clever disguise. The people watching was excellent. I saw a Father-Son mullet combo, which was pretty epic. We were able to bring in our own beer, which was a good deal. It doesn't help my cause that I can easily put back 10 beers in a 2-hour period, especially at $4 each. There were some pretty exciting races and a couple of small crashes. Its pretty funny seeing the cars that the amateurs bring to the stock 4-cyl class. A couple gutted Saturns, a celica, and even a 5th gen prelude (w/ a mustang 5.0 front lol). I had a blast at my first circle track experience, and ended my night at Wild Wing Cafe for some more beer, live music, and possibly the best chicken fingers I've ever had. Overall a great night and I definitely need to do it again. Maybe bring some of the local Subaru peeps. Today I write this from Charlotte Airport nursing a hangover with a frappucino and a cold plain bagel. I should have gotten something greasy, but I'm worried for other passengers safety in case the wings, beer, and late night Taco Bell decide to fight back mid-flight. I'm hoping that I can fall asleep for the whole flight and pray I don't wind up sitting next to someone really chatty or fat. I need my sleep and my space. Anyway I'm going to wrap up my first mobile post ever... Not too bad if you ignore the fact it took me 1000 times longer than normal to write. Pat and I will both be in NY this week for our day jobs. Although we'll pretty much be on opposite ends of the state... There won't be any racecar updates this week, but maybe a couple more hangover rambles...

BME Radio: 06/01/2012

Song of the Day

So I randomly passed across this one, and immediately thought "hell yea!". I remember back when Kid Rock was a hard ass and released his first album with a big middle finger on the cd. So awesome... Moral of the story is that whatever drugs he was on back then seemed to do great things for him. Haha! Jam out to this one, reminisce about the old Kid Rock, and start your weekend with a punch!

Name-calling, complaints about the song choice, internet wars, and spontaneous freestyle battles are highly encouraged.

"Bawitdaba" by Kid Rock

Product Update: 08+ WRX and STi Rear Bulkhead

Some progress has been made on our Bulkhead for the 08+ WRX and STi Sedans. We got our prototype back from water jet last week and it is ready to go in the car for fitment testing.

As you can see, some changes have been made from the original model posted a few weeks back on our products page. After a couple iterations we dialed in the fitment of the panel to where we liked it using some soft prototypes. This first hard prototype does have some extra material on it so that we can accurately remove material where necessary for things like fuel lines and wiring and then incorporate those changes into the final version.

Due to the need to get our STI up and running, progress on this will slow a bit but we are indeed working on it and will release it as soon as possible via a group buy on the forums. Keep checking back for updates!