Cars Barn Find - 1969 Ammco Brake Lathe They don't make them like they used to. Seriously... I stumbled across this particular machine in an older gentleman's barn. It had belonged to his father who ran an automotive shop some 40 years prior. Despite being covered in decades of spiders, rust, and dust, you
Cars Un-Exploding an NC Miata Sometimes, the smallest mistakes lead to the biggest headaches. That was exactly the case with my brother's miata. A few months back, he called me from the side of the road... "I think it's dead". The previous owner bragged about installing an aluminum expansion
Cars Reverse Engineering a Car’s Factory Display for Custom Gauges Racing an RX-8 has its challenges - and keeping track of engine status should be the top priority for any owner. The factory 'dummy gauges' are close to useless, cell phones and BT dongles are cumbersome, and well made gauges are expensive. This is my attempt to solve
Cars Future Proofing a Classic 80mpg Hybrid 5 Speed manual, aluminum chassis hatchback that gets 80mpg?! Honda quietly made that happen from 2000-2006 with this beloved dork-mobile. Earlier this year I accepted a job offer with a 30 mile highway commute. Since my only street legal vehicle was a 1/2 ton pickup, I had a great
Cars 1991 Honda CRX Rallycross Build In 2021 I decided to build a race car. The goal was a simple car that would give me safe, reliable seat time for rallycross events. I got my hands on a 1991 Honda CRX HF - the fuel efficient trim boasting over 50mpg and the lightest chassis at just
Cars V8 Swapped Mini Truck Or something like that... This is the story of how someone spent close to $15,000 giving a 20 year old truck legs. The candidate? A 2004 Chevy Colorado with 340,000 miles on its 5 cylinder (yes, 5-cylinder) motor. I swapped a 5.3L aluminum block LS into the
Cars 2022 Baja SAE Car How did I end up there? The Society of Automotive Engineers hosts a collegiate competition for schools to design and construct cars from scratch - culminating in a machine punishing endurance race. Design started on this car in 2021. This was my first real engineering undertaking, and as part of
