Care and Feeding

  • Honda Civic Project

       This was an interesting car to tackle as it had a good deal of miles on the clock (144,000) and was used primarily as a commuter car and airport car.  What I mean by airport car is that the… Continue reading

  • Road Trip – B-Mac’s

      This week I took a short road trip to visit a restoration shop in the Raleigh area.  You hear a lot about places like Chip Foose and Boyd Codington, but there are some very talented shops that don’t get… Continue reading

  • Filling Tires with Snake Oil

    The original set of tires that came on my Evolution MR lasted to just under 13,000 miles (12,812).  I had heard the stories about how little mileage to expect from the Yokohama Advan A046 tires.  Many Evolution owners quickly looked… Continue reading

  • Project Legacy GT SpecB – part 2

    This week we had a visit from a car that we had worked on some before.  It is Ted’s 2006 Subaru Legacy GT SpecB.  This is quite an interesting car from Subaru.  It comes with a lot of luxury items… Continue reading

  • Volvo P1800 – 2.6 million miles – photos

    Thanks to Noel for these photos he took at a local Swedish Car Show. Continue reading

  • Evolution MR Suspension Swap

    A good friend of mine bought a 2006 Evolution after owning one of the sweetest 1998 Eclipse GSX cars ever.  He bought it new at the local Mitsubishi dealership just a few months ago.  Since Mitsubishi did not make a… Continue reading

  • Volvo P1800 – What do you do after 2.6 million miles?

      I’ll be frank and let you know right from the start that I have little or no love for Volvos.  With perhaps a single exception (a sedan from the 60’s that Noel owned) I have found them to be… Continue reading

  • Great Garages – Times are Changing

    Service garages today fall into two basic classes: the dealership and the independent.  The dealerships keep the sales floor full of new vehicles for sale and a service writer between you and the tech that does the actual work on… Continue reading

  • Drive Friendly

      “Drive Friendly” was on signs posted on the highways of Oklahoma.  I liked the sentiment as well as the way it was delivered.  It was a suggestion and not a demand.  It wasn’t like it was legislated behavior where… Continue reading

  • Nitrogen – its a gas

    As part of my preparation for this road trip I tried out something new.  I went to a local car dealership and had the air in my tires cleaned out and exchanged for nitrogen gas.  I had known that NASCAR… Continue reading