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Hooniverse Asks: What do you always modify?
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We just can’t leave well enough alone. We’re car enthusiasts, so we must adjust, modify, improve and accessorize our cars. Most cars ship from the factory with a broad market in mind, so to stand out, we must make it our own somehow. Ever since I figured out how to drill and tap a billiard…
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Project Car SOTU: (Hopefully) Brief Ownership of an AW11
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Chris, a co-worker at my day job, teased me for two years with the possibility that he’d sell his MR2. It had been in his family since new, first bought in 1986 by his uncle and handed down to his brother and himself later on. It was a car they enjoyed during their college years,…
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Project Car SOTU: Justy Little Compression Test
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It’s been about 2.5 years since I first tested compression on my Justy project car’s three cylinders. That was when I found out it was running on only two of them. Adjusting the valves made it a little better, but it still needed not only a valve job, but a full rebuild. Now that the…
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Hooniverse Asks: What was your biggest automotive false alarm?
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I was replacing oil cooler hoses on my AW11 Toyota MR2 this weekend. They were original, and after 31 years near hot exhaust and in a hot engine bay, they had started to leak. The job’s a bit fussy and requires that you’re flexible enough to shove your head in your own ass, but it’s…
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Justy Little Project Car: Long-Wearing Tires and Steering Fixes
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Now that the Subaru Justy is taking on weekend recreational duties, I can continue sorting out the various small problems it had before I embarked on this engine rebuild.
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Rotten Rental Car Review: Dodge Journey
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The small people-hauler didn’t die with the Mazda5. It got restyled into an SUV, and as a result, lost a substantial amount of its utility in the conversion. This is what’s left of the affordable minivan market, and it’s a dismal place to be.
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Gadget Review: Recon Rings Silicone Wedding Band
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The welding world is full of horror stories about accidents involving wedding rings. The one I heard from the instructor in a community college welding class ended in the words, “peeled off his skin like a glove.” I’ll spare you the details; you can find as many stories as you can stomach all over the Internet. Though I don’t…
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Justy Little Project Car: Firing it Up, and Justy Few Videos
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I tried so many times to get a video of the first time I started my Justy after the engine rebuild. “Alright, here we go!” Not quite. Turns out the wiper blades are on. Remember how you put the oil pressure gauge on the windshield?
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Gaming Autonomous Traffic: How You Can Beat Robot Rush Hour
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In a world of autonomous cars, the autonomous driver will be king. We’re all familiar with the image of that one person walking steadfast against the throng of automatons. It’s a delicious visual, especially for the palate of rugged-individualist America. When autonomous cars become affordable for the average person, it’s only a matter of time…
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Justy Little Project Car: Approaching Completion (?)
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My wife fully gestated and expelled a baby in less time than it’s taken me to finish my engine rebuild. It was September 2015 when I removed the engine from my ’91 Subaru Justy project car. I had it apart shortly after that, pricing out exhaust valves, bearings and machine work to see if a rebuild was…
