From the garage floor.
Build logs, manual releases, and progress on the Micra race car, straight from the Sucatisse garage.
New Manual: VTEC Just Kicked In, Yo!
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.
A big cleanup, and search that got faster and smarter
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.
Support our work: Ko-fi is live
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.
New Manual: The Europoor Drift Missile
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.
Flowcharts and wiring that actually read well
Diagnostic flowcharts now read well on a phone. Wiring diagrams are the harder nut, and we will be honest: they are still a work in progress.
Spring Bay: work out your spring rates
Our free suspension tool, in full. Balance the car on scales, turn a target ride frequency into a real spring rate, and decode a spring that lost its sticker.
Will they fit? A free wheel and tyre calculator
Our free fitment tool, explained. Sketch your current and dream wheel setups, read the poke, rub, speedo error and scrub the math predicts, then measure before you spend.
New Manual: Bug-Eyed Rally Champion
The GD bugeye. Round lights, an EJ boxer that sounds like nothing else, all four wheels driven. A club member's car, and the hardest manual so far.
New Manual: The Smallest V6 Ever Made
The MX-3 runs the K8-ZE, a 1.8 V6 that once held the title of smallest mass-produced six in the world. Of course a club member owns one.
A new homepage, manuals first
The homepage used to bury the point. Now the free rebuilt manuals are the headline, with a shelf of free tools next to them.
New Manual: The Answer Is Always Miata
Ask the internet what car to buy and eventually someone says Miata. They are usually right. A family MX-5 I drive most weeks, and the first Mazda.
New Manual: Nissan's Undervalued Toad
Nobody remembers the 100NX. Pop-up lights, a T-bar roof, and a shape that looked like the future in 1990. A club member's car, and the third manual.
Every torque spec, in the units you actually use
The feature that started the whole project, done properly: a torque page on every manual that flips each spec between Nm, kg-m and ft-lb.
From the procedure straight to the part number
Reading how to do a job is only half of it. The manuals now carry an OEM parts catalog, so a procedure links straight to the exact part numbers.
New Manual: Snoopy, our budget track car
The second manual is the club's K11 Micra, a track toad called Snoopy. We were going to live in this book anyway, so we rebuilt it properly.
Why I rebuilt a whole service manual for one bolt
It began under my own S13, phone balanced on the strut tower, fighting a scanned PDF for a single torque spec. So I rebuilt the manual as a web page.