We reset the clocks on a cluster for the AE86, and add some parts to the 4A-GE
I can still taste the rich fumes on the back of my throat from this weekend. I’m sure this was a moment Flip would never forget. During the lockdown period of 2020, Flip and Reuben were quietly working away on resolving all the gremlins in the FC and sorting it out for its first start. They gave me a call when they knew they were close to the first proper start.
Reuben was jobless and looking for something to occupy his time during what seemed like a never-ending lockdown, and what better way to pass the time than jumping headfirst into the unknown land of rotary power. When I called out, the lads were talking about things I had never heard of, and it was great to see just how far down the rabbit hole both of them had fallen on a mission to get the 13b Fired up.
Flips RX7 fires up for the first time, and it sounds glorious, and we fit wheels to my AE86.
Here are a few shots of Evan’s lovely GX71 work in progress. We pulled it out of the shed about a month ago to shoot the B roll for the episode as I had realised we filmed nothing extra from the original video.
Evan is excellent on camera once he warms up to it, and it was nice to immortalise his build in the videos. Much like all our builds, progress has been slow due to other life circumstances. He has a clear vision of what he wants to achieve with this build over the next year, and I’m looking forward to this taking shape.
For now, enjoy these pictures of Evans time capsule. This GX71 was the same base he was searching for, and he somehow came across it on the auctions, a low mileage, un-modified example, a perfect slice of eighties bubble economy goodness.
This is an insane adventure across Southeast Asia, finishing in Japan. Enjoy Reubens six-month bike trip, narrowly avoiding death on his sketchy motorbike. Something different to start the new year.
WEighties Toyota goodness! Evan gives us a look around his freshly imported Toyota GX71 Cresta, with just over 50k km on the clock. This thing is a proper time capsule.
We test fit the 4A-GE to the Trueno and see what kind of clearance we have with the 100mm trumpets. We also try on the Goodline Hood to see if it works with the engine installed.
We had some good times with this little Civic. We were always one of the first out at each event and usually the last to pack up. The car loved every second of the punishment we gave it on track with its trusty little B16A. Continue Reading
A sad day for Juicebox! I sold the EK4 Civic and explained, with updates on Merch and what’s coming up on the channel.
Sometimes I am my own worst enemy when it comes to organising photos. I forgot about this shoot we did with Roberts Volvo as I had these photos tucked away on an older hard drive and only found them again recently.
Robert was in the middle of finishing this car when we first visited their workshop back in 2018 and when we returned in 2019, they had just put the final touches on this completely custom build. I’ll be the first to admit I was entirely out of my comfort zone looking at this incredible build. Robert himself didn’t want to be on camera, so in our video where we chatted about the car, I did a lot of waffling to fill in the blanks of our interview. For the lack of talking Robert did in our original video, he makes up for it with this absolutely mental build! Robert is a reserved guy and prefers to let his craftsmanship do the talking.
Here is another batch of photos that never made it off of the to-do list. I should have posted these right after the Sweden episode where Reuben decided to drift on a melted lake. Nonetheless, here are a few shots from the day before and after the ice adventure. This couple of days will always go down as one of the most mental weekends we ever had as a group of friends, pushing that car out onto a melting lake and extracting joy from frozen water, knowing it could all end very quickly. It’s an ill adventure take to the grave. Either way, here are some photos from that wild weekend. Hopefully, we can do something similar next year!
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A Glitch in the simulation! Seeing this car on the other side of the world in Ireland, what are the odds?. What’s incredible is we made a friend in the process! Danny Gave it socks in last nights video before he went home. His Corolla was the first AE86 we spotted in Japan back in 2016, and it was surreal to see it once in our recent video.
I got a message out of the blue one night, and it was a guy called Danny from Wexford. He had watched our first Japan video, and he couldn’t believe his eyes. His very own 86, which he had recently imported, had just driven past us on the motorway in our feature-length “Japan without a plan.”
A Panda Levin AE86, the first Corolla we spotted on our first trip to Japan, is imported into Ireland and calls down to the shed.
A few shots from a random weekend messing about at the shed, sometimes I have to remind myself to take some photos as there is always something interesting going down.