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


Andrew and I went to the CSCC auto-x again on Wednesday. I still struggled with the 615’s, and Andrew agrees that they’re really slippery. The car is definitely slower. Cars that I was tight with at the first events now leave me way behind. Pressures were finalized by the pyrometer at 46/39psi on a hot day where track temperatures read […]

RT615 Struggles


I’ve written but I haven’t updated. The main page says something about major mods being in the works for my car. That’s not the case. It sits idle. I tried getting the MSNS running on the weekend, but I need to do some more reading first. Something many people claim as being easy, turns out to be a little more […]

Privately on the Road Course



Thanks ShawnAuto-x last night on the road course. This was my first time driving on Azenis 615 and I was not impressed. In 8 years I've run a good variety of tires, and I have some solid favorites that I would gladly buy again. In the case of the Azenis, I was looking for a fast tire that I could drive rain or shine, on the track and on the street. Past experience in mind, I would have picked the Advan A032R. Not a really fast tire, compared with other R designated tires, but a solid rain tire, and one with forgiving characteristics (which is prime for going really fast). The Yokohama name though... is not cheap. So when I came across Azenis at STRD for significantly less dollars than the Advan I thought they would be worth a try. The Azenis is afterall... the tire of choice for most FD drivers and dominates SCCA solo 2 street tire classes. [...]

First Auto-x on Azenis


Things happen that make me want to sell my car and give up this life. A difficult drift practice on June 01, whose consequences I have been dealing with this week, a saturday wedding and a beautiful girl, a shattered clutch disc, a smoking engine. Work becomes overwhelming, and I’ve made some promises that I can’t keep. That said… I […]

Back Running



Mid season, I half expected to see Ryan back in this. After doing it for 8+ years, it should be hard to just step away… right? More and more, I feel like this is just my website and Ryan is never coming back. It’s true that he was only half here in the first place. 75% of the content has […]

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