Zenkei 2 Door

Oops. The car that twice I said I would never get rid of is gone. The final explanation of that is that sometimes ones appetite is bigger than one’s stomach. This car simply got too hard for me, and it was all my own doing. If I had more money it would have stayed in storage forever, probably tuned even harder and driven any less.

And I say driven even less, but that’s probably impossible. In the last few years of it’s time with me I only found a couple opportunities to take this car on a closed course and really enjoy it. It was amazing there, but an embarrassment and pain in the ass on the street. I loved it dearly, but don’t miss it at all now that it’s gone… especially when I see it rolling hard around town all glassed and vinyled up.

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Crab Migration - Thanks Wei
Snowy Day
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Star Sharks and Pylons
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Running Fast at Auto-x
Cruising
On the way home

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Specifications of the Machine

attributes-ae86-2011-1 FOOTWORK

POWER UP

DRIVETRAIN

  • KAAZ 2 way LSD
  • Illegal Garage DS
  • TPS Flywheel + Illegal Clutch
  • Innovate LM-1

INTERIOR

EXTERIOR

OTHERS

SHOES

  • 14 6J +6 Advan A3A/A3C/A3E
  • 13 7J 0 SSR MKII
  • 14 8J 0 SSR MKII
  • 15 7J +12 SSR MK2-R
  • 14 7.5J -12 SSR Star Shark
  • 14 6.5J +9 SSR Star Mesh
  • 14 7J +5 Watanabe Type R
  • 14 6.5J +5 SSR Star Mesh
  • 15 6.5J +12 Volk Racing 370
  • 13 7J -2 Mario
  • 15 6.5J +14 Hart Racing Hart 7G7
  • 13 7J -2 Enkei AP-Racing
  • 14 6.5J +9 Hayashi Bomber
  • 14 7.5J +10 Weds Strato Upsilon
  • 14 7J -9 Konig Rewind 😐
  • 15 7J +22 Prime Hammer
5

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

4

At the same time that Ryan was at Namao, Andrew and I were in Red Deer co-driving the AE86 on a tattered parking lot with the CSCC. Confusion about what was happening and when caused us to miss registration for Namao, but it was a good day.   An awkward, low speed course really had me struggling with the car […]

A Parking Lot

4

Five and a half degrees negative camber.  Did I do it on purpose?  No, that’s actually as positive as my adjustments allow me, with the parts I chose.  Is it fast?  Maybe not.  My braking sure suffers, but surprisingly, it does seem to make good use of the tires in corners.  Soft, narrow, bubbly tires sure help that happen though.  […]

Tire Works

1

As much as I hate driving my car around on the streets, it is inconceivable how much I love it through pylons. I was not fast, but the car is pretty damned close to perfect.  I could really spend a lot of time dissecting it, and I will…  later.  (ha)  This is just a tease and exclamation of relief.  The […]

It Was Worth It

2

Only one more week with stupid camera.  The car is finally on the road once again… that’s a good thing, but I’ve become an old man and it’s not the fun that it once was.  Bang and scrape got tired.  4000rpm+ cruising on the highway?  And why does everything smell like oil and gasoline now?  I could wine and bitch […]

Back To The Future

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2 thoughts on “Back To The Future”

  • paulcorolla

    Yes!
    Dont worry all the other resonsible adults are all jelous, real jelous.
    I’ll race you too when the mango Is out. We can both dodge pothole together