240SX Engine Mount

I guess a picture is worth a thousand words. They are solid aluminum engine mounts for a 240SX.

Not so JDM

Most people seem to think that we only deal in Japanese cars. This is not necessarily the case. We’ll work on pretty much anything. Here are a couple of examples:

We can't take credit for that much on this Jeep. The "doors" were damaged in shipping, so we fixed that. The main issue, though, was the tow hitch

We can't take credit for that much on this Jeep. The "doors" were damaged in shipping, so we fixed that. The main issue, though, was the tow hitch. It can be difficult piecing together aftermarket parts from different manufacturers. The tow hitch and rear bumper were trying to occupy the same space.

The Green & Purple S13

I’m sorry I haven’t been updating regularly. My laptop & I were not on speaking terms for a while. It decided go on strike. But it works now, so business as usual.

Today, we have a green and purple S13 (for those of you who missed the title). It came in for a base map and dyno tuning, so we can’t take credit for the fabrication work, but there are a lot little things on it that we thought were cool. Like the placement of the intercooler. To this day, I can’t figure out why people put their intercooler and oil cooler in harms way. Hit one cone and you’re out. The initial expense is definitely more, and you can’t beat the efficiency and the look of a front mount intercooler, but even cheap intercoolers get can get expensive when you keep having to replace it every time you hit a cone or a curb.

Here’s the set-up from a different view. Notice the extremely short charge piping. That can’t be bad for spool-up.

Another clever custom piece. For those not up to date on the roll cage rules for formula D, the cage can’t go through the firewall to connect to the front shock towers. I believe there are other events that don’t allow that type of cage, so here’s the way around it:

I don’t know how effective it is compared to a ‘cage that fully ties everything together, but it’s definitely got to be better than nothing. It doesn’t seem like it’d be too hard to install, either. Painting after being welded in is the only hindrance I can think of. (it doesn’t look like it’d be fun to replace the windshield wiper motor either)

If it looks like a GTR...

If it looks like a GTR and says it's a GTR… then it must be a GTR. The owner of this car has gone way beyond what most people do to make a GTR look-a-like. I've seen many GTSs with GTR front ends, wings, and other miscellaneous parts to make their pseudo GTR, but this guy went ALL out with the body.


Obviously, the front end is from a GTR. That’s easy bolt-on stuff. With this car, even the rear quarters are from the GTR. The only thing that’s untouched on the body is the pillars, doors, and the roof. We even installed the V-spec CF diffuser to complete the look.


Engine wise, you’d think there was a RB26 in there, but there isn’t. The owner of this car has owned several GTRs, and he wanted to try out the RB25 for a change to see what it could do.

I’ve seen GTR badges on various Hondas, Scions, Fords, and even a Town & Country a while back. As much as I hate people sticking GTR badges on everything in sight, I really like this car.

Way too much time on our hands

The other day, we really needed to use the pressure washer. We have/had 3 of them; two electric ones that only work intermittently and a gas powered one that we hardly use (it’s not everyday you need a 6HP pressure washer). Long story short, both of the electric ones decided to quit on us at the same time, and we really needed to use one of them, so we broke out the gas powered one.

But it’s never that easy, is it? We soon found out that the years were not too kind to the weathered pressure washer—mainly the gas tank. It was bursting at the seams, and gas was leaking everywhere.

I can’t explain why we wasted a good part of the afternoon making a gas tank for a pressure washer. “We were slow that day” just doesn’t quite seem to cut it. I’m not sure you can see the details in this picture, but the corners were rolled to give it that it’s-not-just-an-aluminum-box look, and the filler cap up top is from a KA24E that graciously donated its valve cover to science and/or madness, whichever you want to look at it. Yes, this gas filler hole used to be an oil fill hole on a valve cover that we chopped up and welded onto our new creation.

We're branching out from an automotive performance shop to a general performance shop. I guess we could start doing motor swaps on riding lawnmowers…

Oil Catch Can 2

It's been a while since I've updated the blog. My laptop at home got a virus and went on strike. I think it's all fixed, so here goes some updates.

Here's another Oil Catch Can we made for a R34 a little while ago.

The car is one of our customer's ER34, but more on this car later...