Sooner than I thought

It was just a matter of time before someone stuffs a V8 into the FRS chassis.  Though it didn't come from the good 'ol boys.  And it ain't a Chevy LS motor.  I was surprised that it came from the land of the rising sun.  I guess they realize ain't no replacement for displacement.

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Camping in style

This summer, I think I'll go camping up in the mountains.  I'll need to find the proper vehicle to get up those mountain roads.  I think this guy has the right idea.

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Sunday Hat trick

Hat Trick (arcade game) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Sunday was very productive.  Watched Formula 1Malalysia, NASCAR California Speedway, and Indy cars St. Petersburg Florida.  Quite a motorsports hat trick, since it was raining couldn't really do much else.  But who's complaining.

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A simple medical fix

Feeling a little blue, this doctor has the fix.


But if your symptoms still persist, you may need to seek a second opinion.

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Crashing an FT86

When it comes to new cars it's only a matter of time when someone who thinks he/she knows, but really he/she doesn't really know.  With the up coming arrival of the Scion's FT86, I wonder who will be the first idiot to crash one of these cars.  Go to 1:00 to skip all the other non sense.

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Wonder(ful)

Braved the monsoon weather to visit ComicCon's little brother, WonderCon at the Anaheim Convention Center.  Never been to a comic convention before so this would be something new.  I looks similar to  Anime Expo, except with comic book characters.

AE86 Tech #86-26: The way of GZE

Installing a 4AGZE is a fairly straight forward, unlike a turbo setup, this requires little creativity and fab work.  But some cars like trueno azul here, like to make things complicated, but i'm here to fix all that craziness.  When it arrived some months back, it was running horribly.  Running like terribly tuned carbed engine. 

drift trike

Looks easy to build and  loads of fun.

Driving aids

Many sports cars manufacturers install these electronic gadgets and driving knick knacks to make the average arm chair racer into a (insert racing series) champion. Behold the Stig auto pilot mode switch.  

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If Porsche went to Simi Valley

This is what you would get.  Raw, loud and sexy, listening to it just gets me all warm inside.

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Bigger is Better by NST

Received a package by super coupe's owner.  Since he is running a 4AGZE under the hood and wanting just a little bit more power.  The best route to create that power is to get a bigger pulley.  But what pulley should he run?  The biggest one you can get your hands.  Enter the NST pulley set for 4AGZE.

Red Pandas

Sometimes I need to take a quick break from breathing all those gas fumes.  Let's watch some red pandas.  If I ever get a drift team together I'll name it red pandas, and it will have AE86 corolla hatchbacks in the red panda paint scheme.

OEM cap

It's been a few months since I lost the center cap off the factory wheels on ol' silver.  Never knew it would be so difficult to find OEM center caps months later, I'm still looking.

Somewhere in asia

A bunch of people got into an accident.

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AE86 Tech #86-25: GZE Resistor

 I've notice quite a few 4AGZE powered cars that never use the fuel pump resistor, then again many setups imported from Japan never come with them.  Even an online harness builder opts to leave out the often ignored option.  It doesn't affect start up nor getting from point a to b.  Though some sensitive drivers will notice that driveability is a bit annoying at times. While others who may be a bit numb when it comes to driving have no clue of what's going on or maybe they just don't care.

Mario Kart in France

In france, they really love their mario kart.

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The speed a AE86 will never achieve, even if you push it off a cliff.

Refills

Even though it doesn't rain very often in Southern California, the wipers do need to get replaced.  When they're disintegrating and falling off the wiper is usually when I go get them replaced. So I swing by the local parts store to get some wiper refills, and nothing was stocked.  After going through a few stores I come up empty handed.  It seems the auto parts stores have decided to drop the wiper blade refills and now only sell he whole wiper.  Sure I could just update the wipers to newer wipers. But like the JDM fanatics who like their JDM parts.  I like my OEM parts and strive to keep the car's originality intact.

So end I end up going shopping online.  Ended up making an order to rockauto.com. Bought a bunch of wiper refills to cover all the cars.  Might as well replace all the cars in one shot.

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FWD rotary

Even though it's got the heart of a wanker Wankel.  He still drives it like a Honda.

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New generation of hydrualics

Giving a new definition of face down, ass up.  Is it really necessary?

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