RUST BUCKETS APPRECIATION CLUB / EST. 2020 / PORTO, PT
RUST BUCKETS APPRECIATION CLUB / EST. 2020 / PORTO, PT
The factory manuals that built these cars are rotting in low-resolution PDFs, behind forum logins, on dead Geocities mirrors. We rebuild them as fast, searchable, cross-referenced web pages.
01 / SALVAGE
We start with the OEM workshop manual. Four-hundred-plus pages of factory diagrams, torque specs, and wiring schematics. The kind you find on a forum thread from 2007.
02 / DIGITISE
Each page is scanned, OCR'd, then manually annotated for figures, callouts, and section structure.
03 / PUBLISH
The result is a clean, searchable manual you can pull up under the car, on your phone, with one hand. No login, no ads, no paywall. Just the manual.
Web tools for people who actually wrench. The kind of thing we kept wishing existed in the garage, so we built it. Free, runs in your browser, nothing to sign up for.
NEW WHEEL & TIRE FITMENT
Punch in your current wheel and tire setup, sketch a new one, and the math tells you if it pokes, tucks, rubs, or just looks dumb.
Open Fitment Bay
NEW SPRING RATES & CORNER WEIGHTS
Weigh the corners, pick how it should ride, and the math hands you spring rates worth ordering. Decodes mystery springs too.
Open Spring Bay
Build logs, manual releases, and progress on the Micra race car, straight from the Sucatisse garage. No newsletter, no fluff, just what we're actually doing.
The second-gen CRX: small, light, revs to the moon. The first Honda on the grid, because a friend who owns one asked. It went up complete in a day.
The boring work nobody claps for: thousands of dead links gone, lost pages recovered, and a search index half the size that stopped guessing wrong.
Everything here is free and it stays that way. But servers and source manuals cost money, and we have a documented tool-buying problem. So there is now a way to chip in.
Every drift scene has a starter car. In Portugal it is the E36. Rear drive, cheap, and beloved by everyone with a welder and a dream. The first BMW.
Suggest a manual, flag a bug, send a photo of your project car. Replies might be slow. We're often under a car.
