This is over. A summary, look back over the last 23 years of QuickR car life, is probably owed, and while this post comes spontaneously… everything else here has. This site has detailed my life with Celica, WRX, Pulsar… even the odd pickup… but [qr]garage was founded for 86 life. That is now long gone… Even if I generously include […]
Dear car friends, I used to imagine that AE86 Corolla’s were fast. As I grew and amassed more auto experiences, I discovered that they were slow, crudely engineered, and hopeless for anything more than providing a unique or at the very least, nostalgic, driving experience. I gave up imagining that “fridges” could fly. This is now how I feel about […]
Well it already was… but I’m working extra hard recently to make sure this is not a place where I do nothing except for bitch and scream. The incredible year of driving, racing, and playing that I had lined up went completely to shit in March. Since that time I’ve been scrounging, grinding… and connecting with people who do cars […]
Recent events… including the passing of an old friend and being trapped in the house and out of work, have given me cause to look back and reflect on the past. In 2005, Ryan (the R part) and I decided that we wanted to try new things, so we put together a series of drift practice events. We were never […]
I’ve been managing rear-drive cars in Canadian winters since I learned how to drive. I shredded AE86, TE72, and AW11 everywhere before I bought my first AWD car. RNN14, ST185H, GDA were an easy button for winter driving. I thought I would never go back. There is something so satisfying about managing a rear driver in the winter though. In […]
For my own reference, and yours, here is a complete Toyota Factory Service Manual for the kouki UCK45. View the PDF (45MB) Fix your old rig!