Projects

Mochi's JCE10 Q's New Era Hachiroku Ryan's SW11 projects-gda3

Past Projects

In the fall of 2001 Ryan and I started assembling and modifying cars together.  All started in different forms, some from scratch, others from near full build requiring only tweaking and tuning.  Nevertheless, all of these cars have been ours… we have a tendency to go through a lot:  lots that never even made mention here, and some that I spent hours writing and thinking about.  It is some form of A.D.D…. really.  In the first few years after we teamed up, neither of us managed to make it through a single season with one car.  They came and went. Mostly it was because we liked to dream, but it was also partly because there was always someone willing to buy.  Cash just looks so good.

Note: These charts are for fun.  Don’t confuse them for us being hard core and bad ass.  Check it out.

Q'S Power Wagon projects-bc62 projects-fjz80 Andrew's Trackick Qs Daily Still Qs AE86 Ryan's VZN170 Mochi's ZJ Mochi's UCF10 Arews BC6 projects-sabi project-aw11sc RN66 Boroi AW11 RNN14 Ryan's NA6CE GZ20 AH Civic projects-a1 Original AE86 All My Other AE86


I didn’t realize until recently myself… somewhere along the way I have become a GREAT Toyota loyalist. This is a declaration that I have made after great rationalization and debate. Standing up and saying you love Toyota, is like acknowledging that the frumpy girl down the street might not be the cutest thing around, but at least she makes a […]

トヨタ Banzai!


Finally spring? Can hardly tell in this image, but it did crack 20 degrees yesterday. The snow is disappearing. And while I missed a preliminary solo event last weekend, the car is ready to go. Itching for some reasonable way to modify the car within solo rules, I have jumped on board the new Solo Spec Coupe class. That means equipping […]

2018 Version



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Yup, it’s still winter. Two cars sit idle through this mess… and there are multiple reasons. Low down cars on stiff springs suck everyday. Hacked up, wing wearing 80’s cars are embarrassing, but don’t even run anways. Brand new cars with squeaky clean assholes like to stay that way. These are all excuses for things we sometimes don’t want to […]

New Era of Old


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The holidays have come and past… and while things have been near silent here and on Kyusha Shoes… much is happening. Stacks of wheels and boxes line the wall of [qr]GaraGe… I am indeed making great plans for the SCCA’s new Spec Solo Coupe class. There is excitement… and the potential of putting an honest professional wheel to wheel guy […]

Things Going On



IMO the SCCA’s dealing with the FRS/BRZ twins in street class has been a bit of a cluster fuck. Optional TRD suspension packages that were supposedly port installed (although no one ever saw a case when they weren’t dealer installed) really messed up the perceived balance between the twins and created a lot of controversy. The optional parts almost certainly […]

More Changes…


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One of my quiet and distant auto senpai once told me that modding cars was a game for children. Being a child at the time, I took this as old man talk. His logic was the following… How can the engineering resources of even the greatest tuning company possibly compete with those of a multi-billion dollar company like Porsche? […]

Car Life Flavour Turned Vanilla




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2 thoughts on “Car Life Flavour Turned Vanilla

  • Neil

    I’ve been wanting to do this to my 86 for years, I don’t even drive it anymore because of the unpleasantries, I know, pretty “lame”. I’m resorting to finally parting with it, I’m committed this time, too many competing priorities have essentially shelved it for the past 10 years.

    I sure miss the old stock car, something about hearing a muffled 4ag working hard while the gas pedal is flat to the floor and the body swings too and fro and not really having to worry about hurting it 🙂

    I think my bro did essentially the same thing with his FT a couple years back and I don’t think he has any regrets.