First, I’m not doing things the way you do. Second, the zenkei red interior is about the best thing ever. Third, I’m tall and that sucks. Maybe I just get stoked about taking things apart, or 18th century looking contraptions… but this stripped down seat is wicked hot. It definitely reminds me of some of my gandpa’s old farm machinery […]
I feel pretty good about footwork, but when it comes to drivetrain stuff... I'll admit I'm pretty stupid. I've never really played too much with making power, and what I do know, is just what I've absorbed over the past 12 years on the Internet. I always thought that books would die in the next few years... especially non-fiction books... but I may have been wrong to think that. There's just something about complete information from one source, without the distractions of pornographic advertisements and email alerts.
I found "Four-Stroke Peformance Tuning" by A. Graham Bell in the back seat of Andrew's BC6 and stole it for a read. I recommend. It's basically given me a whole new outlook on making horsepower. It doesn't seem as easy as it used to... but somehow it's all less intimidating and more approachable than before.
I have long term plans for my AE86 now... and they're nothing crazy. But neither am I... nor will be my ハチロク。
I've never been a fan of F1. How could I be really? There is just something about F1 that alienates me as an earnest driving enthusiast. I've driven lots of door slammers in auto-x situations... and as different as many of them have been, the experience that they have all offered has been at least on some level comparable to my every day drive to work. Only two or three times have I been behind the wheel of an open wheel car... and as interesting and novel as the idea of a REAL RACE CAR is... I hated the experience.
I like slow cars.
And that's why... I've never really been a fan of F1. At no point when watching an F1 race, can I picture myself behind the wheel. I can't imagine what that speed feels like... and I do really even care to try [...]
6 As you can tell… wordpress is bonking in IE8 with some unproportional resizing. Meh. Of all the things on this website that bug me, that is not high on the list. My new idealizations will bore most of you… I think this picture was my desktop background for like 2 years from 99 to 01. The perfect AE86 used to […]
2 The deal with where we’re going is… that it’s a pretty rough place. Body damage is almost certain. Flying is almost certain. Snow is highly probable. Sounds like the territory of an All-Weather Monster. We both have lots of love and a long history in AE86… but the further into this we got, the more it started to feel like […]
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It changes a LOT. This was an entirely random act, and went from idea to complete in like 10min. Basically Andrew stopped by after work and we decided right then and there we needed to do something about his WhosAlien front bumper no matter what. We found a chopped up mx73 front lip in my junk bin, forced it on the round bumper and then filled a 4" gap in between the two pieces with... duct tape. Truck bedliner on top (I'm ALWAYS out of rubber) and finished. Doing things cheap and hack is so much more fun than [...]
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