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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Old throttle body, and new compact throttle body.  They are actually the same thing, I’ve just removed the IACV and replaced it with a small aluminum plate.  Coincidently, I got the idea to do this a long time ago,  from Charmant4AGE, someone who just recently commented on [QR]GaraGe. For whatever reason, I was actually having problems with the idle after […]

My Razor?

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bwah bwah bwah.  What does this mean?  I’m too bad ass and my car was too fast?  Or I just got boost obsessed? My fickleness is ruining me, or at least my impression.  Mind change like a million times.  In the end… I’m going to go with something I know I can do… rather than dive deep into another project […]

OIC

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Everything actually looks well and good… which is actually NOT what I wanted to see.  I’m exploring a few options… the simplest of which is putting this on the shelf and running a 5valve motor.  The most complex is putting this on the shelf and abandoning 4AGE.  Refreshing this thing is somewhere in the middle… but certainly will offer me […]

Bad News

So I toyed with deluding you.  Telling you it’s all perfect… running out there with 200hp.  Tweaked and going strong…  BUT IT’S NOT.  Here is a cut and paste of an email I sent to a curious friend this morning. Maybe not dead, but definitely damaged.  Hard to tell why though… and part of me wonders if it wasn’t related […]

Tick Tock

Shake Down.  Got the car out on the road this afternoon.  I should have recorded the drive… because I was so elated it would have been a noteworthy video.  The car actually sounds turbo-charged.  Somehow I didn’t think it would be so pronounced given my low boost level.  Wrong.  AFR’s seem safely rich 9-10:1  WOT although I never let the […]

I’ll Get Tired Of This?

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When I disassembled the car last fall, I hucked the OEM plastic undertrays.  They are pretty important pieces for cooling and aero, and function relatively well (so some say), but mine were almost torn in half and missing large pieces.  That’s why I’m making a splitter now, when I probably should be tuning turbo bits.  I used white carbon fiber… […]

White Carbon Fiber

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2 thoughts on “White Carbon Fiber”

  • Vickers

    This is called driftwood.

    I made some of my own this weekend, but only because I scrape everything and want my Run Free to last.