SPEED HERO Blog — te72

Temporary Success.

So, story goes: I move across the continent with nearly no money and a car full of tools. Dorikaze's Gordo (ed) provides me with a shell of a wagon for $50. With my hands and my wits. It has come together and driven from the spot it was parked. I hope it continues to do so. It's alive, it moves under it's own power and I somehow installed my clutch backwards, but it works sort of. lol Read the article


Webbed feet, swim for progress.

The wagon is god damn near done, and although I'm jealous of Colby's '83 AE poo wagon for $150, my TE pee wagon is pretty nice for a conversion to AE spec at a total cost so far of $100. Adam, above, came over to help me wire it and has volenteered some future services as well. Mike came by today, grabbed my...


Down in the Ghetto....

So you buy a wagon for $50 with a blown 3TC. You live with NO money and you want to drop a motor in it? You grab the SR5 subframe sitting around back, jam it in and figure some shit out. Yes I re-used a photo. Anyways, story goes, bought a wagon for $50 bones, it sat at Ed's place for 6 weeks until he threatened to crush it. Fair enough. Called up the CAA (like AAA but Canadian Baconish) and had them tow it home. Turns...


Camera Dump

So somtimes there are left overs floating around my camera. Sometimes those left overs are interesting. This is one of those times? sort of. Read the article


It's Toilet Time for Toyota Town

After a game of car meet roulette, the first Dorikaze meet of 2010 fell into place. It was good to see Capital D Mike back in his FD. After backing it into the wall at Western it looked like it's drift days were numbered. There's still some work to be done but it should be track ready for the January 17th practice. Jmin's pimp Cressy made a showing but Warren Foster's 86 was noticeably missing, it was in the middle of it's Million Dollar Man impression...