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

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This is pretty crazy. I tried putting the tires contact with the ground in the same place. I don’t think my car was particularly high before, but it’s much lower now. The rear spring is only half an inch shorter, and the front coilover got wound down about the same (8 turns). Still… most of it came from the new […]

Was 4×4?

I wanted to do a lot, but I’m really not finding time/energy to get out to the garage. I have at least, ordered new tires. The Azenis are still good, I just wanted something shorter… obviously really really badly. I’ll save the Azenis for a new Showa Toyota daily. All the AE86 guys in Japan run 185/55 14 Federals or […]

Doing Some Work… ahh… err… ahh

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She’s going to be deep into cars I think.  At least she teases me by looking at pictures of cars with me on Noriyaro or Speedhunters, and she loves to call out “tanoshii” while riding along.  Being a responsible dad, and living the car life of my past is a pretty serious contradiction though… Today was a simple drive out […]

娘

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I had to make up for my heavy weight shift knob somehow. It needs a bit of clean up still, but the scale says I’m down more than 1700grams. That’s more than 3 shift knobs! I’ve got a pile of stuff to sandblast; this will go in that pile too and we’ll see how many more grams I can knock […]

Cheesed Lid

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I’ve said before, I hate the dinky plastic shift knobs that come on most cars.  Many of you agree with me, and replace your shift knobs with big fat plastic shift knobs…  I don’t really get it.  A gear lever should have a nice weight to it.  A shift knob should fall into gear with the slightest nudge, and have […]

Anti-Weight Savings PT2

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Play the odds. I advise you to buy my car next time I list it for sale. I’m an emo guy with an often grim look at the future. Three months ago I might have sold you my AE86 for like $6500. If that had been the case, I would have gladly bought it back from you today for nine […]

Don’t Be A Nice Guy

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  • Vickers

    Knowing there’s a Q in the world with a clean 86 makes me feel happier than a few G’s profit.

  • Doug

    Haha, To think I told the wife it would be a good investment and she disagreed! Glad to see you keep it though.