My favorite generation of Supra. The owner bought it sitting for 10 years, got it running, and loves it so much he doesn’t really want to stop driving it long enough to fully restore it.

Cleaning out a nasty used-car engine bay and door sills. Spent 45 minutes on this and I have immense respect for the people who do this for a living, though I’m sure they have more than an old microfiber and some water to work with.

RIP cone, you were too young for this world. The Wichita Region SCCA had our third rallyx of the year and our first event at the 81 Speedway dirt oval track. We turned half of the oval and part of the infield into a rallycross course. Due to a race the previous night the oval itself was pretty much asphalt due to…

Super nice condition Oldsmobile Toronado Trofeo!

Ditched the stupid catfish whiskers and softened up the angularity/wideness of the grille slightly. That horizontal hard crease below the headlights still feels SUPER out of place but I’m too tired to make it go away. The headlights also have eyelids but, again, too tired to put in the effort to try to redesign the…

Imagine gliding effortlessly down the road in a Studebaker Commander coupe. Lovely.

Looking down the throat of a CVK (Constant Velocity Keihin) while revving the engine on my 1980 Honda CX500. You can see at idle fuel being drawn around the needle, then as the slide lifts more fuel comes from both main jets (CX500s have two main jets, a pilot jet, and an idle jet. The latter two are nonremovable,…

My LS400, ostensibly a car made for eating up highway miles in comfort, has had a nasty vibration at highway speed that sort of ruins any comfort there might have been. Today I finally ordered the OEM castor arm bushings to remedy that issue. Also ordered: #82 Keihin main jets for the CX500 and new carb boots. Grand…

The neighborhood I live in has been super quiet the whole year-and-a-bit I’ve lived there and nobody really bothers locking their doors or anything and unattended motorcycles are a common sight so I figured it was pretty low-key. Being a block from a police station probably has something to do with it. Then on Friday…

She was smooth! Did good. One of the quicker there I believe.

Runs like dookie. Still puzzling out why. The 90/120 jet combo that is recommended when using pod filters results in the bike results in being so rich it barely runs, won’t rev over 8k, and lots of smoke. Well okay then. 78/115 stock jets result in lean as hell and rev hanging. Well okay then. So I go intermediate and…

These are unreasonably inexpensive. 2 liter turbo AWD manual luxury coupe. These are all words the Jake enjoys.

Bike update: welded up a new exhaust. I love it. Very evocative of the cylinders sticking out the side of the bike. Sounds a bit more sporty than harley, and is dead silent at idle. Downside: more backpressure results in the bike running HILARIOUSLY rich now, so I get to play Musical Jets. Yaaaay.

This is the happiest I’ve been with car meet shots in a while. I went a bit heavy with the edit but... eh.

The incredibly subtle implication here is if you’re rich you can do what you want.

The Nissan Pao is one of few Japanese cars I want to import and own.

Got my Shinkos in! Bike is ridable again. Needs some refinement with the carbs, the right side pops and bangs like a mad bitch and seems lean for some reason. Need to get a seat figured out. There’s a local guy selling a stock one for $25, might get that and modify the hell out of it and see what I can come up with.

Where we’re going we don’t need roads. Frustratingly while it ran perfectly the other day today it’s occasionally pissing gas out the left carb and the right one is running a bit lean. I think some crap in the gas settled.

Love how this thing looks from the rear with the jugs sticking out the sides.