On Sunday I had the 3 out in it’s first real ‘storm’ since it’s been on air and it honestly took it like a champ.
No frozen lines, ride pressure and height stayed consistent, and she was as sure footed as a mountain goat.
I still plan to do a mid winter air ride review but so far so good exactly as I expected.
My lip didn’t much like being used as a plow though and has since been taken off after a chunk of ice gave it a bit of a knocking.
Nothing I can’t fix however, I mean I’ve done it before.
Continuing the one two punch of drift related Theme Tuesday posts is this week’s edition on the wall tap.
Wall taps are always exciting to watch because when they go well it’s graceful and elegant, and when they go wrong it’s levels of chaos ranging from beautiful to horrendous.
As much as I love to see a good wall tap in person I can’t help but feel a little bad for whoever has to pound out the damage later on when they go sour.
You may have noticed a Santa like individual hanging out in some of these photos. If you want to know more about Bil watch the video below.
The Donk community is an interesting subset of the automotive culture because they never really seem to interact with ‘the rest of us’ too often.
They do what they do –often with little regard to what anyone else thinks– while the rest of us stare in utter disbelief, or try to ignore the fact they exist.
Any time that I’ve delved into Donk territory I’m always a bit surprised at just how much work goes into some of these cars.
Sure many are just hum drum older domestic vehicles rammed with bondo, a lift kit, twenty fo’s, and an eye popping paint job, but others actually have a decent amount of work done to them. On occasion some of them even pack relatively potent power plants under the hood.
Case in point: this Box Chevy Caprice with a Toyota 1JZ under the hood.
Judging by the comments in the youtube video below this swap is sending both Chey and Toyota fans into a sacrilege screaming tizzy.
I find myself oddly OK with the car however because as far as I know 1JZ motors are not in any short supply and if this opens the doors for more Toyota powered Chevy’s (and vice versa) I’m all for it.
How about you?
If you are interested in more ‘JZ’ swaps take a look at the 2JZ in everything Theme Tuesday post from a few months ago.
Photo Credit: Rides Mazgaine
Found myself over on Street Source the other day where I came across this pretty cool Chevy Luv build.
After a long period of ignoring his Luv, builder Daniel Maxwell decided that when the truck was fit for the streets it needed to be body dropped. The problem was he decided this after already putting a decent amount of work into it.
Rather than cut up the first frame he built he sold it to a friend and started from scratch.
Returning to the drawing board after significant progress is something that isn’t all together uncommon in the minitruck community, but what did strike me as uncommon was Daniel’s method of constructing the new frame.
I’ve popped my head in a few custom frame threads and normally they start off with constructing a frame table –or at the very least some sort of jig based on the previous frame– but Daniel deemed all that unnecessary and drew on his garage floor instead.
Using squares, clamps, and the measure twice, cut once, method Daniel plugged away until he had a new frame under the truck that allowed it to lay out hard as proven below:
I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty impressed by his resourcefulness and fabrication skills.
The entire build can be found here and I really should post more Chevy Luvs…
The dark days of winter have descended on Ontario marking the beginning of what will undoubtedly be a damn cold off season. A slight silver lining to a season of slush, and vehicle killing salt is that Winter Wednesdays have returned once more.
Leading off this season of snowy posts is Work VS-XX equipped Lexus sitting on some fresh powder.
Presumably this was just rolled out of storage for a few photos because those wheels are far too nice to get thrashed by the elements.
Curiously there’s actually never been a Theme Tuesday dedicated to drifting on Stance Is Everything until today.
Not exactly sure how that happened, but it did, so to make up for lost time I’ve decided break the drift drought with a post dedicated to the graceful art of the dirt drop.
Wall taps sound like a good idea for next week?
The fact that I like Audi wagons isn’t exactly news, I’ve been a fan of the A3 for some time now and I’ve also dedicated a Theme Tuesday to various forms of Avants.
This may be the first Allroad I’ve posted and, surprise surprise, at the right height I like them as well.
Spotted this one over on the S|W forums.
I feel fairly certain that I’ve narrowed down my next daily driver choice to either an Audi or Subaru, wagon of course.
Photo Credit: Kyle Bussenger
A few days ago Ollie sent over a photo of a radial aircraft motor sitting innocently under the hood of a C10 knowing that I would set off trying to find more info about the truck.
After Google-ing every conceivable configuration of “radial engined powered c10” Â I realized that there just doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of information on the truck.
At the very least it was shown at one event, the Spokane Good Guy Nationals in 2012, where it was trailered in due to a complete lack of transmission.
The person or persons who built it remain a mystery as does it’s current state of repair.
Since it was for sale at the time these photos were taken I don’t think it is a stretch to assume that whomever bought it put a more common power plant under the hood instead of figuring out how to get the vertical shaft to transfer power horizontally.
Hopefully I’m wrong though because it would be really cool to see this working.
If you were to ask my late nineties self whether or not I liked the LS400 I my answer would have been no, partially because I was a dumb kid and partially because I wasn’t much into luxury sedans, especially ones that were often two tone.
Over time my tastes have matured and like a fine wine the LS400 has got better with age to the point where if I were in the market for big luxury sedan one of these would float to the top of my list.
Of course I would want to drop it right down on it’s nuts similar to this car which follows a simple recipe bags, metal trimming, 18 Locksmice Duke wheels.
Done.
Photo Credit: Derek Butler
After posting a flared yellow Pantera, and Brian Hobaugh’s Optima Street Car Challenge winning Corvette nearly back-to-back on the fan page it dawned on me that it’s been a long time since the I last dedicated a Theme Tuesday to flared/wide bodied  American Cars.
In fact it’s been about two years and thats too damn long, sorry for keeping you waiting, here’s part two.
