Projects

Q's New Era Hachiroku Ryan's SW11

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.

Mochi's JCE10 projects-gda3 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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…might help me drive faster if they were hanging off the back of my bumper. The tremendous confidence and sense of superiority they are giving me is not helping at all in that regard. For years, many many people have told me that I am a chronic over-driver.  I push too hard, try too hard, work the car too hard.  […]

My Big Balls…

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I’m helping out with the SASC Winter Driving School again this winter, and today was a bit of an organizational/trial day that allowed me a bit more time behind the wheel than I might otherwise afford.  It was a valuable day in that I got a chance to hoon around a bit and feel like a hero, and then even […]

On Ice

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We had snow for too long without meaningfully cold temperatures. Now I can re-remember what I was thinking when I bought this car. I’ll have to steal someone’s GoPro to show you what I mean.

Not Dead

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Of all the turbo AWD cars I have spent time with, this one is actually the most poorly behaved in the snow.  That doesn’t prevent it from being fun, but I have been forced to realize and learn new things.  The most obvious problem is that the stock engine really is quite laggy and unresponsive below 4000rpm… probably not a […]

Too Much White. Where Is The Road?

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I bought my WRX a wife. She wants a dual outlet exhaust, 16″ wheels and one of his ribs. Our Sienna has gotten tired, and with the WRX as fun as it is around town, the van wasn’t doing enough of the grunt work. In addition, the van got stuck twice in stupid places this week, and is actually pretty […]

Proof That I Won’t Be Stock Forever

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This shouldn’t have been a big deal.  I guess in the end it wasn’t really, but with work and other stuff going on the car was off the road for almost six weeks.  My WRX which was supposed to be stock and reliable and wrench free.  That’s why I bought this car right??  To be a get in and drive […]

My MisFiring Subaru

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2 thoughts on “My MisFiring Subaru”

  • Q

    ha. Discovered to be a bad injector… which was somehow intermittently bad until the very end, and I wasn’t able to catch it until I tested them all with an ohm meter and re-arranged them on different cylinders.