We came in too hot on our first ever rally stage (outside sprints) and tagged a telephone pole with the ass of the car. But we were able to fix it that night and finished the entire New England Forest Rally! All the long nights and headaches were 110% worth it. A+ would hit pole again.

It’s a zoo here. Hide your children.

The latest noreaster has claimed an oppo victim :(

Woo! We made it!

Let me set the stage a bit first. A few months back I took my girlfriend to ride along at a rallycross event (New England region SCCA A-Number 1) at which she very much enjoyed, and fell in love with the VW rabbits and golfs that were running in the FWD classes. On the way home from the event she was already looking…

Oppo, meet Ralph. Despite his criminal record, Ralph is a good boy.

I’m taking a month off to drive from New Hampshire to Colorado, with the goal of spending a few weeks exploring the rockies. My general plan is to wander around camping & driving trails. I’ve never been there before, and with the exception of a few days for a wedding I have no set in stone plans, so I come to the oppo…

Finally getting around to writing up a little post about a small trip I took a few weeks ago with the Northeast Mitsubishi 4x4 Club. We spent 3 days in Vermont traveling & exploring the large network of Class 4 roads there. Many of which were routes from last years Vermont Overland Rally that some of us attended.

Picked up some new tires for the adventure rig since we’ve got a New England to Colorado round trip soon and the original factory Hankook Dynapro’s didn’t have enough meat to make it. Grabbed a set of 5 Falken Wildpeaks and upsized them to some 33 inchers. First time running a Falken tire, but the reviews seemed…

This weekend whilst I sat in grid waiting for my turn to play, I was informed that my gravel tires are mounted inside-out. I’m glad they told me, as i’d never even have considered it otherwise. But it does certainly explain why there is SO SO SO much mud blasted into every crack of the front subframe & control arms.

At least mine does.

My first time as a driver in this TSD rally, probably the most fun I’ve had driving ever though. 3pm Saturday till ~2 am Sunday through snowy back roads of VT with directed ‘average’ speeds that were probably too fast (the event is designed by John Buffum, so that explains it a bit.)

This summer I am planning a month long road trip to Colorado from my home in New Hampshire. I’m hoping to do lots of overland exploring throughout colorado, with a friend’s wedding plopped in there at some point.

Doing lots of prep for the 2017 rallycross season here in New England, which begins in a month or so. Replacing all the leaky gaskets & boots, rewiring some gauges, and surely some more stuff will pop up as I tinker...

Starting to think this thing is cursed as we’ve been dealing with an oil leak on my STI ever since we replaced the old turbo. It’s been great for at least a month, one autocross shakedown, once a week commutes to work, quick jaunts around town. But this morning the leak is back after sitting for maybe 2 weeks, and I’m…

Spent this past weekend at the Vermont Overland Rally, and being back to work this week has sucked. I just want to go back and keep exploring as we didn’t get to hit even half of the class IV roads (unmaintained roads/trails) that were mapped out for attendees. My Nissan is stock, aside from the necessary armoring for…

We were supposed to shakedown the rallycross STI Saturday. However it had other ideas (that involved leaking oil on the up-pipe) so it didn’t pan out.

Finally got the rallycross car running! No more power steering leak, no more oil leak, no more Brembos. Drove around the block with only minor high temp drama (because I’m a dummy and didn’t put enough coolant in.)