Yearly Archives: 2015


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Last year, I had a brief love affair with aluminum. I bought a spool gun for my old Lincoln 180, a canister of argon, and went about learning how to weld and work with aluminum. It went so well in the beginning, that I imagined making everything out of aluminum. Nevermind intercooler piping and catch tanks, I was thinking struts, […]

Worth Even A Stack of Dimes?


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Drivetrain mods are for max winning IMO. Nothing you can do to your car is more under rated in it’s impact on performance and drivability… particularly differential set up. AE86 was a very simple lesson in this. A stock [Canadian] AE86 with an open diff is basically no fun at all. Tall and soft, it teases you often by playing […]

No Humping. Straight Porking.



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Not to disappoint Randedge, but I want to make stuff as clean as this.

Dual Sport


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There are a lot of neat places to explore by driving around Alberta. And although most people think to go touring in the summer, technically there are more surfaces that will hold vehicles during the winter. All that is required is a vehicle that you don’t mind going off the road with. This was on a lake not West of […]

Turn Down for What.



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The 5×100 wheel market is not destined for development. I expect that the ZN6/ZC6 will be dead by 2017, and if something replaces it, then like the new WRX it will likely be 5×114. I find the current 5×100 offerings quite boring, so I sketched up a modified version of my favourite wheel of all time. I’m doubtful producing such […]

Introducing?


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If you are local you already know Orrin because he’s super fast and in attendance at basically every event. He is however, also a gigantic swindler. Somehow he convinces me to sell him some of my favourite wheels. Besides these Watanabe’s, he also has my old Tom’s Racing Dish in 5×100 (which he refuses to sell back to me no […]

The Fox