Was your luck with cars better before you got married?? Mine sure as hell was. In the eleven years of driving prior to getting married, I broke a car once. ONCE… and it’s not like I was driving nice cars either. I’m sure that at least ten of them were sub-1000 dollar units. In four years of marriage, we’ve now […]
Tech
2 I gave some of you the impression that I’d found an old HKS turbo kit. That is not the case. I’m building from scratch, but with the hope of creating something similar to what HKS had produced. Anything can be done with money of course… I’m trying to do this with a very limited budget. To this point, I’ve consistently […]
Turbo Sizes
2 Somewhere along the way I committed myself to maintaining 4AG power. Not only that… probably 16V 4AG power. NA as well of course. With this in mind, I’ve been browsing over the last few weeks for real gearing answers for the T50… or even for another similarly sized transmission (as committed as I am to 4AG, I am not nearly […]
Low Power Winning 3 – with Low Funds 2
1 So… my internet car life has all but been reduced to browsing yahoo auctions, and looking at useless car porn on websites like speedhunters, motormavens and omgpancakes. No one is smart anymore. Remember when people actually cared about how their cars performed? Now it’s just about wheel fitment, and slow motion videos. MotoIQ is like Race Tech or Race car […]
Moto IQ
2 Ryan still hasn’t returned from his trip to the states, so I haven’t had time to be de-briefed in detail… but via a short conversation he did present something that may be a problem with his current set up. It is typical for fast auto-x cars to run stupidly large rubber. An auto-xer can get away with it more so […]
Work Boots or Sneakers
4 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 […]
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