Zenkei 2 Door

Oops. The car that twice I said I would never get rid of is gone. The final explanation of that is that sometimes ones appetite is bigger than one’s stomach. This car simply got too hard for me, and it was all my own doing. If I had more money it would have stayed in storage forever, probably tuned even harder and driven any less.

And I say driven even less, but that’s probably impossible. In the last few years of it’s time with me I only found a couple opportunities to take this car on a closed course and really enjoy it. It was amazing there, but an embarrassment and pain in the ass on the street. I loved it dearly, but don’t miss it at all now that it’s gone… especially when I see it rolling hard around town all glassed and vinyled up.



Specifications of the Machine

attributes-ae86-2011-1 FOOTWORK

POWER UP

DRIVETRAIN

  • KAAZ 2 way LSD
  • Illegal Garage DS
  • TPS Flywheel + Illegal Clutch
  • Innovate LM-1

INTERIOR

EXTERIOR

OTHERS

SHOES

  • 14 6J +6 Advan A3A/A3C/A3E
  • 13 7J 0 SSR MKII
  • 14 8J 0 SSR MKII
  • 15 7J +12 SSR MK2-R
  • 14 7.5J -12 SSR Star Shark
  • 14 6.5J +9 SSR Star Mesh
  • 14 7J +5 Watanabe Type R
  • 14 6.5J +5 SSR Star Mesh
  • 15 6.5J +12 Volk Racing 370
  • 13 7J -2 Mario
  • 15 6.5J +14 Hart Racing Hart 7G7
  • 13 7J -2 Enkei AP-Racing
  • 14 6.5J +9 Hayashi Bomber
  • 14 7.5J +10 Weds Strato Upsilon
  • 14 7J -9 Konig Rewind 😐
  • 15 7J +22 Prime Hammer

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Barrel of Speed



It’s fall. I missed the last weekend of driving by blowing a hard coolant line on a night run. I guess my soldering skills weren’t up to task, but I’m pretty confident that my ability to gob on JB-Weld is. I am now completely leak free and driving dry for the first time all year. I guess it was a […]

Now What?


Having a booster masks how much the bulkhead actually flexes when you put real pressure on the brake pedal. Without a booster every stop takes as much leg work as any stop would with a booster equipped, and given that, you really notice how much the bulkhead flexes and the master cylinder twists. It can be gross. So I built […]

Boosterless Brakes Continued



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Grainy.  Distributor relocation or DLI kits are typically the most expensive or hack part of 20V swaps… and from the engine’s standpoint this is neither.  It sure is hack from the chassis point of view… but I’ve already cut and welded and braced my chassis so much that this seemed entirely trivial.  Total cost was like $7 worth of sheet […]

20V Auxillaries PT@ – Ignition


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Ha. I doubt it. Pretty hard to walk away from this.

Farwell?




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  • randedge

    As well, I should point out that we’re just about 12-15 years from our midlife crisis. When that hits, you’ll at least already have the cool car you can relive your youth with.

    But, that’s a long ways away. For now, I hope to see you tomorrow for a Deerfoot event.

    R.