My Michelin Defender LTX MS’s served me faithful 60,000 miles, of which a significant portion of it was spent towing. To be fair, it probably shouldn’t have seen the last 5,000 miles, but given I wasn’t going to see snow for a few months at that time, I decided to wait until Black Friday 2024.…
New alignment for the new tires. The previous setting was pretty bad, with a lot of negative toe in the back. This puts things back in line and should give the tires the best shot of wearing evenly and for a long time.
New build just dropped!
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…
Evo The Evo has had a fairly substantial amount of work done over the last 2 years, and I’m still sorting out all of the upgrades that were made. I don’t like to change a lot between racing the car, but with how scheduling has been, it was fairly inevitable. I’m back on track now,…
We have added front window tinting and windshield tinting to our Venza. The front windows seem to not have any tinting at all, which was surprising to us. It looks like the rears are tinted at about 20%, so we added a 35% tint to our front windows. This will help with both the heat…
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