Mother Father Instant Gentleman

With the drivetrain in and the suspension installed, I noticed I had a bunch of body kit parts lying against the wall. They shouldn’t be on the wall, they should be on my car! I had originally picked up this body kit to install on Kandi 1.0 after my off-course excursion during one the of […]

You Drive Me Crazy, I Just Can’t Sleep… Until Kandi 2.0 is Complete

With the footwork on Kandi 2.0 mostly settled, I decided to work on the drivetrain. Most of this work was done at the end of 2011 through 2012 (yup, we’re still catching up on my build, but we’re getting closer to present day!). My road racing friend Jimi had an LS1 setup on his S14 […]

Kandi 2.0: The Suspens(-ion) is Killing Me!

One of the first things I worked on for Kandi 2.0 when I received her was the footwork. There were a lot of parts to transfer over. However, I quickly realized many parts were worn out; looks like spherical bearings on a semi-daily driven car doesn’t last forever. Over the past couple of years, I […]

QV’s S13 240sx Convertible Build Intro

I’ve been through a few revisions of various S13’s (coupes and convertibles) for daily driving, street tuning fun, hpde’s, and autocrossing. At some point, it seemed personally inefficient to try to build a street-driven seriously competitive autocross car. While searching online for 5-speed swaps (yes, I was racing an automatic turbo s13 convertible, haha) and […]

OS Giken SoPac Super Regional June 2013 @ El Toro: The five-dollar heartbreak

To start, here’s a description of the OS Giken Super Regional (from the event flyer): “The Southern Pacific Super Regional Autocross Championship is a two day national style solo autocross event consisting of three runs per day, per competitor. Finishing order will be determined by combining a competitor’s fastest score from Saturday’s course with their […]

2013 June SCCA Super Regional Event Coverage

This past weekend saw two of our good friends/drivers (QV & Jonathan) competing in some epic autocross regionals in irvine. Jonathan Hartendorp, our sponsored driver, even got a 3rd place podium in the event, which considering the competition was a tremendous feat. The field was packed with odd but ridicoulously fast cars and most of […]