Bought the 1:24 Silvia, “Tore the M**** F****** Roof Off.”
During more down time while working on the project car and waiting for parts to come in, I was inspired by one of Jay Z’s songs. Since I couldn’t find an S13 convertible scale model, I decided to mod my own. It was time to bust out the cordless Dremel (ballin!) and the plastic bit […]
1:24 Scale Nissan S13 Silvia – 1/24 the Size, 100% the Fun!
Sometimes it gets tiring working on Kandi 2.0; that’s probably why I still haven’t finished it after 3 years. I picked up this 1:24 scale Nissan S13 Silvia during my trip to Japan. It would have been awesome to find an S13 convertible, but this one will do. It’s been many years since I’ve touched […]
Replacing the Starter on My Own 180SX Type X Project
Working on your vehicle comes about primarily for two reasons. One, you want to upgrade or improve something in your vehicle and two there is something you have to fix in order for it to keep working. For me it was the latter reason that forced me to replace my busted OEM starter before 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 […]