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Sunday’s Refined: Curated Sunday Special

I have no problem admitting that I’ve become a bit more guarded with my time. A lot of my recent event coverage reflects that. These...

Autostrada Magazine Sets The Bar At The Porsche Experience Center

Autostrada Magazine and The Porsche Experience Centre TO kicked off the 2026 season with a banger of a Cars & Coffee Style Event.

Event Coverage: Sleds North 2025

Held at the Plunkett Estate in London Ontario Sleds North 2025 was one if, if not the, best Kustom Car shows to ever take place in Canada.

Event Coverage: Motorama 2025 Latepass Gallery

From the not so lost files, this gallery of photos from Motorama 2025 should get everyone stoked for the 2026 event starting March 13th 2026 at the International Center.

Style Is Everything at Sleds North 2024

As Canada's only curated Kustom car event Sleds North puts the culture and community first at this one of a kind gathering of everything 'Kool'.

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WTF Friday: So you like burnouts?

The first video I in today's post I saw Monday and thought to myself damn that was pretty awesome wonder why it took someone so long to do it. Then, a few days later my friend Marc sent me the second video which was more surprisingly more ridiculous than the first. I am a big fan of vehicle on vehicle burnouts, environmentalists and the local authorities might not be but I think I have made enemies out of them long ago.

Body Dump

I've been watching a lot of Dexter lately (just started season 4) and it most certainly had an influence on the title of this post. The owner of this early body s10 certainly doesn't murder people but he has killed any sign of gap between those up-sized Iroc reps and his Hot Rod Flatz painted fenders with a healthy body drop and air ride setup. The built 350 under the hood is also sure to take a few miles of the life of the tires on those 20s.

Unique Accord

Stumbled upon this Honda Accord wagon a few days ago and while the ride height is quite low its the wheels that made me 'right click save as'. They are most certainly not the type of rims you would expect see on an import but they actually don't look too out of place on this wagon. A little different but not bad at all in my opinion. I wish I knew the specs, but I am going to say fairly tall 18s or higher judging by the amount of camber needed to get them to fit.

Winter Wednesdays: On the plus side

Today's Winter Wednesday is a bit different than all of the ones I have posted previous. It contains two cars and both get covered in snow and slush, but only one has it's tires set on the ground, the other is just along for the messy ride. The owner of these cars, Zakinen (from SubaruForester.org), is a pretty lucky guy he drives a dropped Subaru Forrester as a daily and on days he's not working he uses it as a tow rig for his ae86 track car.

Theme Tuesdays: Lexus LS400s

About this time two weeks ago I posted up a clean LS400 and put forth the question about whether or not I should do a full LS400 Theme Tuesday. The response I got was basically a resounding 'yes' so I hit up Aidan, who I normally ask about Lexus/VIP matters, and he helped provide some links and photos to pull this together.

He’s at it again

sumTHAIguy on the Mazda3forums has been pushing Mazda fitment, more specifically Mazda speed 3 fitment, for awhile now going a little lower and a little wider each time. After looking great on 350Z rims for a quick second he bolted up his new set of kicks, SSR Longchamps XR4Z kai's, and knocked the doors of possibility down for the speed3 in regards to ride height, stretch, and poke. This current setup isn't for the faint of heart, at 18x9.5 +13 this car is a stark contrast from the speed3 I posted last week.

I can see it now…

I really can, this car is going to end up all over the internet. It's going to appear on blog after blog, and forum after forum, for a couple of reasons. I would actually be surprised if some of you had not seen it already. The first reason people are going to talk about this car is pretty obvious. A lot of people don't think Subaru's should be lowered, never mind slammed or on air ride, because of their out of the box off road capability and cherished rally heritage so multiple page debates about the suspension on this car are basically a given.

WTF Friday: Fun for the whole family

For those of you who are, or already have, started a family and are looking for a fun way to get the tribe involved in something automotive based then you might want to take some cues from this wrench holding handy man as he's obviously has it all figured out. First you need two Dodge Caravan's, one running and one for parts, then you need a truck frame to put everything onto and once that's done gather the kids for the camouflage paint job. When it dries stand back and admire what you've created.

What would you do?

I mentioned yesterday on facebook that the test fit of my new wheels went pretty poorly, but before I get into that I should back track and let you guys know what my goal for these new wheels is. What I hope to have purchased is a set of Work Equip 5 spokes in 17x8 (et38) and 17x9 (et44) fitment. The plan, through lots of research, was to run these with 215/45/17s all around and be happy with not a lot of poke and no excessive amounts of camber.

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Project Why Wait: Cleaning Up LS Induction With FiTech EFI

FiTech EFI joints project Why Wait with their Loaded Ultimate LS Intake manifold. The perfect performance minded visual upgrade for any LS based motor.

Project Why Wait: Look Cool, Stay Cool With Proform Parts

Project Why Wait comes back from paint looking cleaner than a whistle and Proform Parts also adds some function underhood with their 1-2-3 radiator setup.

Project Why Wait: So Fresh And So Clean

I've been holding out on you guys, the chassis for 'Project Why Wait?' actually returned from Stripping Technologies about a month ago and I've...

Project Why Wait: Get In Where You Fit In

When we last left Project Why Wait I had just manged to recover from an *ahem* slight miscalculation of rear shock placement. That little snafu...

Project Why Wait: Cabin Fever

Cabin fever took on a new meaning in 2020. Thankfully it also allowed for a significant amount of accomplishment for Project Why Wait.