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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320hp… at four wheels. And listen to that beautiful racket. Reminds me of Mosport. Reminds me of Bombay and Tonics… I must do this.

NA is Better

You might look at the picture and say that winter is already here… but this is just a run of the mill day in October. Pretty soon the white stuff will be hub deep, and the barn so cold that the heater will be meaningless. There will be an inch of ice covering all the roads around my house, and […]

Winter Is Coming

I’m kind of in love with my car. It’s significant enough, that I’m reverting to old ways. I.E. lots of barn time. Lots of cuts on my knuckles and permanent grease stains on my fingers. This car is becoming MINE… and the AE86 philosophy is still very much MINE…

俺のインプレッサ

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I’m pretty much the only guy who has this fantasy… and it may not be a fantasy for much longer, as I am looking at the size of my wallet thinking about how to make it a reality. I bought a WRX because I could… and because at the time, I thought I wanted 300hp and turbo tunability. I’m not […]

Dokodemo Fundeiru

After almost a year in pieces, Andrew’s second BC6 is back on the road. I haven’t really been involved with it at all… but from what little hands on experience I’ve had, it’s been a good reminder, that the things that make cars cool are not HP and bling parts. This boroi old thing has my car beat on a […]

On The Road Again

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These arrived. If you need a refresh, they are Speedline Acropoli sized 15 6.5J +35 that I found on yahoo auction for a measely 8000円. Lots of Subaru guys make claim that some 16’s won’t even clear 4 pot calipers, and when looking at my Watanabe’s, that might seem true. The Wat’s fit tight, with only a couple of mm […]

Tight Fit

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4 thoughts on “Tight Fit”

  • randedge

    Very cool!

    How big are your rotors?

    (or failing that, I could find out if you let me know what year of WRX they came from).
    Thanks!

    Randy

  • GrantC

    Those are gorgeous! It’s impressive the clearances that wheel designers can manage when they’re working around a _known_ set of brake calipers, eh?

    The weight isn’t that surprising, rally wheels have the “strength vs. weight” tradeoff far in the direction of “to finish first you must first finish”… Also, ditch/gutter hooking shouldn’t be a problem for them. 😉

    -G

  • Q

    Rotors are 294x24mm. Not so big. Just stock size… I believe they’re even shared with the base model Impreza.

    I should put the wheels on a scale… but I’m sort of afraid. They might be like 9.0kg. :X I’ll have to do some banzai driving if I’m going to feel great about it.