Monthly Archives: June 2009

You got yours? If you haven’t seen this video… you might be a diy newb. If you have seen this video… you might be a hack. If you already have your hashirya pipe… you might be my hero. Those guys waiting in the tunnel at Irohazaka still put a little fear in me though. … and maybe you think that’s […]

Hashirya Pipe

The excitement of my post has been ruined by the horrendous picture quality of our new SONY Camcorder, recently purchased to replace our stolen JVC. The JVC kicked ass. The Sony goes back to the store. I was pretty stoked though. Thunder and lightning actually pulled me out of bed at 6am and lured me to the barn where I […]

ハチロク戻って来ました！

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You’ve Always Been Lovable

Sick thunderstorm today… and I can’t help but feel that certain things are destined to be… no matter how much pain results. Better to be enslaved to something you love right? ハチロクの人生。。。できるかな？

偶然ーCoincidence?

The current plan might actually be to ressurect my partially parted and very much rust infected AE86. Cost effective? Wise? Not entirely... The result will more than likely be a vehicle that resembles AE86 only in appearance. Engine and tranny are already gone. Fenders and headlights already gone... rear floor pan already gone. Even steering rack and column are already gone. Why replace these things with stock or even stock ish items when weird oddball stuff is just as desirable and maybe even cheaper. The real challenge is time and money. For the first time ever, I will be working within a very limited budget, and there is actually a hard fast deadline to finish things up (at least evolution 1). I've said before that I operate a real car life on an RC car budget... and that's not an exaggeration. Total budget of like $1500 from this point forward?? That might be a stretch of many things. The purpose of said project will remain private. We might just be up to no good... and we might be on our way to riches. Call it our plans for the ultimate street AE86... except of course that there will be nothing ultimate about it because let's face it... $1500 buys shit. The welder is going to get well used. Many visits will be made to Metal Supply House, and PNP and... probably YOUR garage under cover of night [...]

already dead — The current plan might actually be to ressurect my partially parted and very much rust infected AE86. Cost effective? Wise? Not entirely... The result will more than likely be a vehicle that resembles AE86 only in appearance. Engine and tranny are already gone. Fenders and headlights already gone... rear floor pan already gone. Even steering rack and column are already gone. Why replace these things with stock or even stock ish items when weird oddball stuff is just as desirable and maybe even cheaper. The real challenge is time and money. For the first time ever, I will be working within a very limited budget, and there is actually a hard fast deadline to finish things up (at least evolution 1). I've said before that I operate a real car life on an RC car budget... and that's not an exaggeration. Total budget of like $1500 from this point forward?? That might be a stretch of many things. The purpose of said project will remain private. We might just be up to no good... and we might be on our way to riches. Call it our plans for the ultimate street AE86... except of course that there will be nothing ultimate about it because let's face it... $1500 buys shit. The welder is going to get well used. Many visits will be made to Metal Supply House, and PNP and... probably YOUR garage under cover of night [...]

My Frankenstein

AHHHHHHHHHH. I can’t do it. I’ve been parting my rusty dead AE86 with the intention of destroying it but… it’s really hard. There is so much I love about AE86… even rusty cancerous AE86. I cleaned it up and pieced it together so that it was all in one place and ready to haul away and now it actually looks […]

まだまだハチロクが大好き