Monthly Archives: September 2009


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Yeah my MKII’s are really here!  I even passed on selling them for a couple hundred bucks profit.  Mine. I’m kind of shocked though, at how 14″ tire sizes have almost entirely disappeared in the past three years.  My hope was to run the most aggressive streetable tire that I could.  What I had in mind was some A032R’s or […]

Round Things


… on me I’ll understand. Things are SLOOOW in the garage.  It’s easy to find motivation for basic wrenching… but fab and welding… I can hardly get anything done in an hour time-slot, and that’s about all that I’ve been able to afford. But what I am working on is primarily getting the new Recaro’s in the car.  That has […]

If You Give Up…



Head up. ‘Go Kart’ is lame. ‘Kart’ is rockstar. Just like some people say ‘PING PONG’ is embarassing, and ‘Table Tennis’ is something that impresses your new girlfriend (they’ve actually got it backwards). But anyways… I spend a lot more time on kart and tractor forums recently than I do on real car forums. Some guys do really cool and […]

Ballin Karts


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It was a good one, and that it was totally un-provoked and unexpected makes it even better. My MKII’s are not red.  Masaharu played me well by sending pictures of a red set and saying they were mine.  Mild relief.  Mine showed up… raw finish and all. Raw finish?  It’s true that they don’t really look like much.  And I wasn’t […]

Prankster



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I live on an acreage. I live on an acreage with about a 1/4 acre sized pond on it. In the winter we play hockey. It’s sweet.  In 2004 after Calgary was nearly washed away by the BOW… we had a legitmate regulation sized rink.  This winter it doesn’t look like the ice surface will be that big.  Hockey will […]

Trailer Park Paradise


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SWPull---20psiI told you a few weeks ago that Ryan hit Speedtech's show n' shine and threw his car up on the Dyno there. I also told you what numbers he made: here is the proof. The above pull was the last one... made with 20 pounds of boost. [...] And this was 18pounds if I remember correctly. At the time boost made was crystal clear... but now it's all hazy. [...]

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