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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Tick Tick… BOOM! Actually it was more like tick tick… CRUNCHGRINDSTOP.  Injector 0-ring fail, and side feed injectors are hostile to the Mobil 1.  That’s two motors in two weeks.  Is the AE86 next?  For the first time since driving an AE86, I actually hope NOT!  The AE86 can stay.  The BC can become monstrous.  がんばります。

So That’s What That Sounds Like


Because I never use my AE86 for anything but club events, I can insure it through Legends Insurance for a very reasonable premium.  Furthermore, with an appraisal I can be assured that I will be rewarded more than pennies for my “old tin can” should anything ever happen to it.  Norm at Vintage Vehicle Appraisals came by and looked at […]

Appraised



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I had posted a wanted ad for stock injectors, resistor and harness… but I found all those things hiding in the garage today.  Those and a complete small port harness, 3 large port heads, large port intake manifolds and TVIS bits, plus some weird purple injectors which fit the rail and harness, but are unknown to me. The car is […]

Inventory


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Seriously. I’m embarrassed about my recent performances. The car needs to be more business. The JDM bumpers look good. So good. No one has ever looked at an AE86 and said… “but that’d be so rad with USDM bumpers.” No one in Japan has ever said that even. It’s just crazy. But… I think I’m going there anways. I love […]

Big Bumper – Big Wheels



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Worst day at auto-x in a long time.  It started out great, with Andrew and I being about as quick as I could hope.  I believe after the morning, I had a scratch time that would have put me second overall (1st place being one STX prepared WRX) and Andrew was about 1 sec back with a clean run, and […]

Hot… Mess…


In more ways than one of course.  What a decent car weekend, despite missing auto-x on Saturday.  Sunday morning was spent moving my exhaust.  It’s almost perfect now… the flaw being that it still isn’t quite centered on the bumper opening.  Making exhaust sucks.  I spent a lot of time trimming and grinding pieces of pipe so they fit together […]

I love Q-sha



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