3 With Japan in the state that it’s in, my wife traded her summer trip home for a family trip to Seattle. So I’ve been out of town for the last week and haven’t actually gotten anything done on the car. I did get in a few minutes before leaving however, to finish off the turbine outlet flange. As I said […]
2 It used to be the case that all the Japanese hachiroku drivers I knew, scoffed at anyone who needed forced induction or more displacement. It seems that now more displacement is acceptable. This is Masaharu’s response to hearing that I’m turbocharging my car. Somewhere along the way I decided that I don’t like the Beams motor… I did consider a […]
Actually… this only took me about 20minutes to put together. Anyone else would give you the obligatory close up shot of nice bead… but no way I’m embarrassing myself by doing that. My fear of pinhole leaks necessitates multiple passes on occasion. Meh. It looks well enough from a distance, and will be fine once painted. Not like I’m building […]
5 I’ve been waiting a long time to view the Japanese documentary “Senna” produced more than a year ago and it looks like there are finally quality versions of it online. There are currently no plans to release it in North America, so gobble gobble gobble!! Find a torrent HERE. I’m hosting corresponding English SUBTITLES HERE. Drag the unzipped .srt subtitle […]
2 Yah. Stuff’s here. Now we’ll see if I can actually make anything out of it. From the compressor outlet to the throttle body will be 2 inch, while the AFM into the compressor and the downpipe will be 2.5 inch. I bought a tubing cutter this time, and am looking forward to not using a messy grinder! I think about […]
6 I’m a monkey again and that means I have to drive to work everyday. My wife’s uncles are all higher up’s at Toyota in Japan… meaning my wife is a big fan and I have a good excuse, but more than that… since the persecution of Toyota by the American government, I have decided to do all that I can […]
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