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Winter clean up has begun.

Chris — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 18:00:44 +0000

I have no entensions of doing a typical ‘winter tear down’ but I do plan on doing some clean up on the Corolla. For starters, I yanked the heater core. Since I bought the car, its never worked and was completely useless so in the trash it goes.

Damage!

Chris — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 20:50:49 +0000

More on this later when I have more time.

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DriftWater 10 pics

Chris — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:23:30 +0000

I honestly dont feel like writing up a long post about how the event went so here’s a general synopsis:

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Read the rest of DriftWater 10 pics

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She’s still here.

Chris — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 00:21:29 +0000

Some thought that I sold the Corolla. I didn’t. Its been grounded to its room for the past four months due to bad behavior. Once it straightens up its act, I’ll let it go out and play.

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Shake Of Worker

Chris — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 17:48:33 +0000

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A less-shitty DIY Home Depot lip option

Chris — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:26:29 +0000

Of all the nice front-lip options out there for the AE86 (and other platforms), there is ONE that I hate with an absolute passion; the “Home Depot” lip. Sure its cheap, but no matter what its installed on, it looks terrible.

Last year as I was vinyl wrapping the Corolla I went with the ‘home depot’ lip option and here was the result:

UGH….. horrible. Within 10 minutes of installing it, I ripped it off and began my search for another (cheap) option. Back to Home Depot I went and this is what I found.

Look familiar? Probably not. Its the inner lining for a door frame and it too is at Home Depot for a mere $5. They are on the same isle as the doors (or close by) and usually in a very tall bin. Unlike the Garden-frame (or whatever its called) variation, this liner is flexible yet VERY sturdy. This is actually my second lip of this type. The first one lasted well over a year and went through a lot of abuse; ie course cones and being smashed while loading the car on a trailer.

The process of putting this lip on is very simple as well. All you need is a Dremel (or cutting utensil of some sort), drill/screwdriver, and a few screws.

Using your Dremel, cut the tabs off one side of the lip.

Make sure the tab-less side is facing up and fasten the lip to the bottom or your bumper using a few screws. On my previous lip, I also used Double-Sided 3M tape which helped out a good bit too.

Its obviously not required, but I rounded off the edges at the bottom.

Its not a JDM Kouki lip, but it’ll do for now.

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Few pics from the TO event.

Chris — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:00:25 +0000

J.Weaver snapped some pretty good shots of everyone from the T.O. event that went down a couple of weeks ago. He even got a few of the ‘Rolla.

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Gettin Durty

Chris — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:59:12 +0000

Got around to working on the car this past weekend. Finally started installing the XS Power D680 and replaced the busted lug bolt in the left-rear hub. For now the battery is in a “mock-up” stage. Im going to verify a few more things with the XS Power folks and then finish bolting everything down this weekend.

While working on all this stuff, I came to the realization of how dirty this car really is as you can see from the picture below. Im all for battle-worn abuse but this thing is beyond my tolerance. It will be receiving a thorough cleaning very soon.

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The end of an era.

Chris — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:00:36 +0000

Im sad to say that the DMGGASD hood is no longer For the last 6 months, its been kept outside and subjected to Mother Nature’s wrath. Honest, Im really bummed that it ended like this. When the car returned from Memphis I was hoping to pull the hood and hang it on the wall in the garage. I don’t know, I guess I still could. Never the less, a new one is under way.

To be honest, the whole damn car needs a lot of TLC. The logistics of the TO Event really took its toll. From the front bumper to the wheel lugs and LSD (needs rebuilt), the next couple of weeks/months will be spent bringing the car back up to mediocrity.

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In-Car vid from Traction Optional event.

Chris — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:52:32 +0000

Im sure to your disappointment, neither of these runs include the tire debacle. Never the less, Im happy with how the car was running despite all the body roll. My 6k/4k on GR-2s setup just isn’t cutting it anymore.

On the first run, I kept my line high-and-tight which brought me in real close to the clips but I lost a lot of momentum doing so. For the second run, I took a wider, sweeping line. Although I was able to keep the RPMs up I missed the clipping points by a mile.

Oh and if you look closely, you can see why the car has been gone for 6 months

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