I spent the last 3 and a half days of my spring break in Houston. While being there for a school event, that doesn’t mean I put my car life on hold. This car was at the event and was later seen at the Saturday night meet. It also happened to be my favorite and for good reason.
Simply Beautiful
-BChaisorn
Stopped by David’s house to see Thaison and pick up a few things for the Si (more on this to come). After getting the car into the garage by pushing it over the concrete (car was soo low) David and Thaison got to work raising the car up for this Saturday’s Harris Hill Autocross event along with replacing his clutch.
Natsukashi Nights
CHARGE
cut cut scrape scrape
We don't need hangers
"Do work" fitment
Spacers and a new clutch!
Thaison never cleans his interior
-BChaisorn
needless to say, i have an oil leak somewhere...
Took my car over to my buddy David Liu’s place to swap my clutch. So I wouldn’t have to do it in my gravel driveway in the dark….
Clutch was SHOT to hell. hahah, no wonder it was slipping so much.
Should be finishing it tonight!
So recently, I’ve been wanting a wagon more and more. I figured it’d be a nice daily — i can throw a tooooon of stuff in the back and lug around whatever I need to. I’ve always wanted a wagon — corolla, corona, cressida, datsun 620, whatever. Any old japanese wagon from the 80’s and earlier.
One of the most popular wagons in the corolla scene is Ueo’s corolla wagon. A rare TWO DOOR wagon:
The te72/ae72 wagons are my favorite out of all the corollas. The rigid lines and everything make them look sooooo sick. So one of my buddies, Mudathir, was telling me a couple months ago about a corolla wagon he was looking it/considering buying. However, things fell through and he never went through with it.
So today….I went and checked out the wagon. Damn, I really wish I would’ve taken some pictures of it. But it looks similar to this (minus the wheels and minus the slam and minus the front lip and minus the rear wing and minus the clean).
So the car is 100% stock with a rusted rear quarter panel and busted tail lights. I talked to the guys there and unfortunately they said they wouldn’t sell it to me today — but maybe in a coupe weeks. It’s currently one of the shop mechanic’s daily’s until he gets a new vehicle. Once he gets a new car, he said he’d sell it to me.
If I end up getting it, I want to throw the car on bags and just slam as a daily. Keep the body as messed up as it is and just drive the ish out of it. It’s a wagon — family car!
The SI got a major overhaul this weekend. My main mechanic, whom I always tackle intricate car projects with, helped me with pretty much rebuilding my motor. We replaced almost every needed part/gasket that is needed of a car that has over 100k+ miles on it. The cool thing was, was that the parts that came off it were all OEM as well. I always get excited when I see nothing but the best on cars. Here are some pics!
Jose (Jalapeno) Showing his excitement for all the parts he sees
Get down with power tools
Well, you gotta have wiper fluid!
GO UP!
Battle Weapons
All the new part glory
Pop'n topz
Blue and yellow! Someone tell Spoon to sponsor me~!
Surgery
Loose battery stays are never good. Still can't believe I've been driving around like that
Suspension goodies are my favorite, 13mm SI sway bar to 22mm integra type R sway bar. (have to wait for brackets 😦
Now the SI runs like it just came off the showroom floor. Time to hit the touge
Here at Natsukashi Garage we love good builds. We appreciate anything and everything, but quality and a love for racing is always key. In addition, we are obsessed with ITB’s as seen on Thaison’s Corolla. This next car in fact has ITB’s and then steps it up another level with a k20 and all around Type R finesse. I always heard of the term Hype R, but I’m all about the Hype on these cars. Check it!
Good Lord
My homeboy Angelo’s been pushing boundaries on almost all of his builds. At least the builds that I know of.
First build I knew of was his blacktop ae86:
Which then became an sr20det86 and then sold to a kid in kansas:
Second build was an S13 that he built in like 3 months (or was it 3 weeks?):
And thirdly, he just traded that S13 for this teg:
ONI CAMBER. His builds have always been ridiculous, which is very fitting with his character. Great guy, great personality.
So, those of you who’ve seen my car recently, know that I’ve recently switched to an aftermarket ECU. DIYPNP Megasquirt to be exact. I was scared as heck putting it together (because it was my first time soldering anything for reals) but it all worked out. I took my time and double/triple checked everything I was doing. The DIYAutotune guys have a LOT of written information out there to get me through it.
Anyways, this whole time, I’ve been running off my buddy’s maps — since he’s got a different engine and stuff, I’ve been running PIG rich. Like AFR of 10-12 rich. So this is what I’m starting to get into right now:
megalogviewer
I’ve been reading online and watching youtube videos on how to tune and adjust your VE (volumetric efficiency) tables. It looks like a giant jumble of numbers to me right now… but I’m still learning!
So as I’m heading down the route of making my car nice and clean again, I had to source some new parts from club4ag. I thought I was ordering some eyelids and corner lights for the 86 but this is what I got:
Wrapped in Korean newspaper, from Cali.
I got TWO SETS of untracked eyelids! Ones pair seems to have some overspray, but that shouldn’t be hard to clean up.
From that time I hit a tree, both of my eyelids have been destroyed. Passenger side has a huge crack and the driver side disintegrated. Hahah. Now I have a clean set and a spare set!
Here’s some throwback pictures of my first hour owning the peanut:
I seriously need to get to working on this car again…
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