We head to Scotland to Dorifest at Driftland, an event focused on style and fun driving.
We take the Crusty Accord CH1 Type R to a Hiro Racing Honda Track day and see if it can survive the punishment.
We get carried away trying to create the perfect TRD wing for the back of the AE86 and Barry Gaps the 86.
After helping Sam buy his Dream AE86, I hung out with the Nightride guys in Poland for a week to see their slice of the car world.
Check out this really epic K11 Micra, a HKS-inspired Nismo-kitted nugget.
The AE86 Trueno gets the doors and wings primed, and it’s all one colour. I’ve waited years for this!
Not everything goes to plan. Unfortunately, our exhaust mission didn’t work out, I sort of forced josh to make an exhaust for me, and realistically I should have got one made up elsewhere. It’s one of those situations where you have a friend who can weld, and suddenly everyone asks him to do work.
This was a productive weekend of sorting the dash, realising the exhaust is fucked and requires a whole new system, painting the little metal piece on the car’s frame to match the life, and sorting the headlight brackets.
I hadn’t been to the shed in a few weeks due to covid lockdown nonsense, so seeing Josh balls deep in his s15 resto and Flip doing some bits on his FC was a pleasant surprise. We usually get more stuff done when there isn’t a crowd!
Our video on Paddy’s shed went down a treat a couple of weeks ago, I could have spent an entire day going through the collection, but time was against us, so much so that we had to call back for a second look after work as the evening light quickly vanishing.
This shed is incredible, a man and his friends saving Irish Toyotas from the scrapper. The look and feel of this place are like something from an old Optiojn DVD feature when they call out to someone’s rural shed packed with old gems. I’m sure most of you have seen the video by now, so ill let the photos do the talking.
For anyone who has been here before, the feeling as you nervously wait for the engine to fire up, years and years of putting time and effort into this build with friends because this car is a communal effort hoping it will pay off.
Two rare Datsun Sunny trucks call to the shed for us to take a look and Flip takes his FC for its first drive.
Getting closer to that first start on the AE86, we fit the clutch lines, add gearbox and clutch fluid and mess around with hidden throttle linkage from SQ engineering.
This was another one of those incredibly productive weekends. During covid, things were patchy, and progress ground halted for much of Christmas 2019/2020. With lockdowns and everything in between, the car progress had stopped, and it wasn’t until May/June 2020 that things started to move again.
This build has always been feast or famine, massive chunks of progress in the shed or small dribbles of effort. Over this weekend, our friend Darrel had re-adjusted the clocks to zero, as we felt the car deserved it. It had never come with the original Clocks. If you are a long time viewer of the build, you will know that the clocks were out of an AE92 supercharged FWD Levin, along with the entire loom.
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.
In this episode, we update you on the AE86, enjoy some misery with the March, and have fun with a Rusty Micra.
This was the Nissan March’s last shoot before we raised it. I tried to get it through a test and ultimately had to face the fact this was no longer the machine for the long 220km commute I have to do every day driving up and down to JDM Distro.