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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The ST185 RC was, at one point, Toyota’s race car for the street.  But it’s a big fat pig compared to my AE86.  I’ve been spoiled.  The AE86 is HAAARRRD.  Sure it doesn’t have 250whp, but it’s a sinewy taunt, athletic machine.  I’m talking Bruce Lee V Andre the Giant.  Bruce will dance around Andre all night, and feel like […]

Kung Fu and WWE

I am not a truck guy, but I’ve been to the trails a couple times and observed a couple of serious rigs.  This is not a serious rig.  It is stock with 33″ tires and some armour… BUT… with 6000lbs of downwards thrust, and 3 locking differentials it rolls over a lot of stuff without even a blink or spin […]

Stock

Surprises me how small a T50 is.  The appearance of it is normally dominated by the easily removable bell housing and shifter section, and without it looks very small and easy.  I’m totally ready to rip this thing open and at least brainstorm some ghetto/hack close ratios for it.  I’ve been browsing/asking in Japanese recently… mostly about the 12354 patterns […]

Barrel of Speed

It’s fall. I missed the last weekend of driving by blowing a hard coolant line on a night run. I guess my soldering skills weren’t up to task, but I’m pretty confident that my ability to gob on JB-Weld is. I am now completely leak free and driving dry for the first time all year. I guess it was a […]

Now What?

Having a booster masks how much the bulkhead actually flexes when you put real pressure on the brake pedal. Without a booster every stop takes as much leg work as any stop would with a booster equipped, and given that, you really notice how much the bulkhead flexes and the master cylinder twists. It can be gross. So I built […]

Boosterless Brakes Continued

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Grainy.  Distributor relocation or DLI kits are typically the most expensive or hack part of 20V swaps… and from the engine’s standpoint this is neither.  It sure is hack from the chassis point of view… but I’ve already cut and welded and braced my chassis so much that this seemed entirely trivial.  Total cost was like $7 worth of sheet […]

20V Auxillaries PT@ – Ignition

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2 thoughts on “20V Auxillaries PT@ – Ignition”

  • Edgar H

    this is twice i’ve seen a boosterless brake setup on AE86 today. how does it perform anyway?
    as always, job well done. i envy your welding skills.

  • Q

    Maybe my ability to weld is enviable, but my skills (at least for this project) certainly were not. Boosterless brakes are awesome though. Took sometime to get set up right… But now they rule. I’ll probably make it my next post.