In 2023 fashion, I’m dumping a lot of my activity into one thread, as things have been turbulent and hectic. I sent off the car in late 2023 (transmission jammed/rebuild), got it back in March, sent it back in April (second gear still popping out), got it back in May, and am sending it back…

Haven’t made a post just for my helmet, but I really love this one. It’s an Arai GP5W, which is actually on its way out of production. I have a connection in Japan snag me an SA2020 + pink/gold visor for about half of what it costs in the States. I had been shopping around…

Thought I’d never do it again, but here I am. Turbo upgrade incoming for the Evo. On my old Evo, I went from the stock turbo to the HKS7460R, an incredible turbo that spooled quicker and made much more power up top than stock. That turbo blew its oil seals, dumping loads of oil into…

I have not done one of these for quite some time, wow. I had to look back at some previous posts on how I usually formatted these. Some background: This is the 3rd time I’m attending this event, but in a way just my 2nd. After doing this event for the first time last year,…

These next few posts aren’t going to come out in order, but I’ve been bad about updating the journal so I’m just going by what’s off the top of my head. Yes – this is diffs again. 2nd diff (technically 3rd if you include the factory helical) for the front and 4th (? stock, Cusco…