Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To's posts

The Lake Garnett Grand Prix is an absolutely amazing track/autocross/car show event with an immense variety of some…

Carburation. It’s a thing. It works, sometimes. My 1997 Ducati 900SS is one year shy of the “third generation” of…

Miata broke, BMW broke, it also looks like my Yamaha two stroke is a lost cause. And my washing machine decided to…

For the first time I have finally driven a RHD vehicle, and what a vehicle it is. A Honda Acty, a JDM RHD…

After 5 years of owning Miatas I finally took one to the track! The track in question is the Lake Garnett circuit…

The Mazda’s OEM oil cooler burst a gasket and the BMW is running lean and making serpentine belt noises.

The BMW threw a misfire code and was idling poorly so I pulled the plugs and... jesus. Now the question is... why is…

The unforgivable sin of letting my 2008 Mazda Miata sit for a couple weeks resulted in this. Oil GUSHING from the…

I do photography things sometimes. Occasionally I don’t suck at it.

Quick video of reassembling a majority of the DT175 and unsuccessfully trying to get it running... at this point I…

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I recently experienced something unheard of in E46-dom: a failed window regulator. Shocking, I know. You may now…

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Spent the last two days going over the E46 with some M105 and a wool pad. The results aren’t awful. Followed it up…

It’s that time again! Short video today.

Youtube thought I’d like to see this. Youtube was right.

Da ba de da ba die. Love this car.

RIP little Briggs. Hello big Briggs. Hello sketchy mounting methodology. Hello mr broken tap.

It is now the designated time to point and laugh at the BMW on jackstands.

Honestly, could have been worse. Hopefully by next week I’ll have this thing fixed up enough to really drive it.