AE86


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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Pretty hard to find anything about the BP Kraft Trueno. This is a nice look at one of many cars that make GT300 much more interesting than GT500.

Gran Turismo 2 Was Best



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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…


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As I mentioned last week, with RCA’s banned in most SCCA Solo classes, some creativity is required to modify the roll axis on cars like the AE86 after serious lowering. Luckily, in these same SCCA classes, methods of lateral rear axle placement is almost entirely open. That means that relocation and modification of the existing panhard rod is allowed, or […]

Mumford Linkage For Lateral Axle Placement