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
Snowy Day
D-sport
Star Sharks and Pylons
Anglefactory
Mochi
swampbuggy
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
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This picture is a few days old.  The garage is a gigantic mess now, but I can’t photograph it.  My wife took both of our camera’s to Japan for a month.  As I said before… the SW11 was in for a few simple things prior to season.  The AE86 however; I’m beginning to wonder if it will be ready to […]

Still A Ways To Go

I said I wasn’t going to play the fitment game… but I think I did decent enough by ****.  Longer control arms go a long ways.  These are my 14 6J +6 A3E’s.  Rear will use spacers.  Front could probably use 1″… but at my practical ride height there is no point.  I have since bead blasted the A3E’s and […]

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You might have read about my trashed Hayashi Bombers: straight wheels that sat in a yard outside of Shizuoka for the past 15 years.  Corroded to hell and very ugly.  I’m currently also sitting on a set of Advan A3A’s.  The A3A’s were in pretty good condition.  The pierce bolts and inner shells were a bit corroded, but for the […]

Oops.

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Yeah.  Like this…  And I feel good about it.  The sleeve was made from a 2L Co-op brand water bottle.  It was a damn tight fit… but I pressed it over the top of the original sleeve and plastic welded them together before hitting it with a coat of wrinkle black.  Extended the wire for the horn button and… BAM!  On […]

At the Grocery Store…

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Is this a good idea?  At one point I thought so.  My double DIN stereo unit had a CASSETTE deck on the bottom DIN.  A cassette deck!?!  At one point I wanted to be nostalgic… but I’m not there anymore.  At least not in entirety.  I have a couple of single DIN CD stereo units that in some ways would […]

If I Could Play 8-tracks…

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I was hoping that the “Long Boss” might be me… and not only my creation.  Not if I can’t weld any better than that though.  I can barely lay a straight bead on a nice flat steel joint.  I cannot lay a straight bead around a 2.5″ pipe. I like a close “handoru.”  Steering wheel quick releases are cool, but […]

Long Boss

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3 thoughts on “Long Boss”

  • JP

    Couldn’t you get some kind of semi-flexible plastic and bend it around the outside of the top and bottom and figure out a way to fasten it? so it would just look like a solid cylinder? maybe that’s not the look you’re going for?

    and its better welding than i could do!

  • Q

    Yah… I worry about anything that’s not already round… just because over time it might come apart or end up… not round. Which maybe isn’t that important. BUT… I have this wicked 1.5L アサヒ Beer can that is coincidentally the perfect diameter. Not the look I want… at least… I don’t think it is… but would probably be bad ass. Second… a 500ml Yogurt container is also the perfect diameter… just a couple cm short. I wonder about going to the grocery store at looking for something that comes in a container the exact right size. That might be easy… and a helluva lot more delicious than spending $20 on a chunk of 3.5″ PVC. After I eat my snack I could just whip out some textured paint and voila.