Since my last post on the topic, I’ve been working on drafting up quite an epic list of car part words, names, and brands in Japanese. While I’m sure they will be some more tweaks made, I wanted to post up the “beta” version of the list to get some feedback for additions. Leave a [...]
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How To: Say Car Part Names in Japanese – Beta V.2
Posted in How to:, Steve, tagged car, japanese, japanese english translations, names, parts, upgarage, yahoo, yaj on January 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
How To: Say Car Part Names in Japanese
Posted in How to:, Steve, tagged brand, car, japanese, katakana, name, part, romaji, upgarage, yaj on July 11, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The list below is a breakdown of car part terms and names in Japanese. First, a note about the language barrier…or lack there of…well kind of. Lucky for native English speakers, the Japanese names for most car parts are adapted “English” names. You’ll notice katakana is used – katakana is used when writing a foreign [...]
How To: DIY Alignment in Theory (Part 1)
Posted in How to:, Magilla Gorilla, Steve on March 22, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Nobody needs an explanation of why having a proper alignment is important, so I’ll try to keep the focus on my plans for doing my own alignment.
How to: Throttle Body Rebuild / Assembly / Disassembly
Posted in How to:, Steve on February 21, 2010 | 4 Comments »
For anyone at a loss on how to disassemble their throttle body, I put together a “how to” when took mine apart. This was for a stock S14 DOHC KA throttle body, but the steps should more or less apply to any throttle body of similar design – Q45, Z32, SR, SOHC KA, RB, etc. [...]
How to: Strippin’s easy…
Posted in How to: on September 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Thought I would do a real quick “How to” today. I am guessing some of you have wheels you would like to polish the lip on or maybe the whole wheel. I am also guessing you have noticed it has a clear coating over the polished area. How do you get that off without sanding [...]
