Rotary Swapped Kei Truck Hits the Dyno (Loudest Vehicle We’ve EVER Built)

Rotary Swapped Kei Truck Hits the Dyno (Loudest Vehicle We’ve EVER Built)

You know the deal by now: we build, we break, we fix, we break again. It’s the Hoonigan way. After a week or so of final buttoning up, Suppy has the Kei truck ALIVE and running. First thing’s firs...
Kei Truck’s 13b Swap Gets Finishing Touches – Will it Start??

Kei Truck’s 13b Swap Gets Finishing Touches – Will it Start??

The last bits of a build are always the worst bits. If you’ve ever built anything intensive yourself, you know exactly what we mean. Wire this, plug that leak, weld that… ALL the stuff you forgot ...
Our Rotary Powered Kei Truck Goes to New York… Will it Finally Get Finished??

Our Rotary Powered Kei Truck Goes to New York… Will it Finally Get Finished??

No, we haven’t forgotten about ‘ol Brapp Pitt. And we haven’t been hiding it from ya. It’s just been making its way across the country to our man Suppy’s house in Queens, NY so that it can finally...
Suppy Schools us On Electricity and Custom Alternators // 621 Golden EP 021

Suppy Schools us On Electricity and Custom Alternators // 621 Golden EP 021

Professor Suppy has a whole lot to do, and not a lot of time to do it. Because of our placement of this 13b that’s definitely NOT supposed to be in a kei truck, the amount of custom fab work to be...
Hard Line Cooling Setup: Only the Finest for Our Rotary pit Truck // 621 Golden EP 019

Hard Line Cooling Setup: Only the Finest for Our Rotary pit Truck // 621 Golden EP 019

See, before the pirate life of being a Hoonigan shop hand, Suppy used to work on some really high end stuff. Like, stuff that starts with P and ends in "orsche". And the nice thing about having hi...
Rotary Pit Truck Gets Racecar Stuff: Sequential Transmission Custom Bellhousing // 621 Golden Ep 017

Rotary Pit Truck Gets Racecar Stuff: Sequential Transmission Custom Bellhousing // 621 Golden Ep 017

We like making things complicated here sometimes at 621 Golden Ave. We could’ve just chucked an auto trans behind the 13b that’s swapped into Brapp Pitt, but noooooo… we had to go with a full race...
Mounting a Sequential Transmission Up in Our Rotary Powered Pit Truck // 621 Golden Ep 015

Mounting a Sequential Transmission Up in Our Rotary Powered Pit Truck // 621 Golden Ep 015

Measure once. Cut five times. Standard fare on the plasma table these day. Look, mounting up a sequential transmission into a very small Kei Truck ain’t easy - so sometimes a few pieces of metal n...
Keeping a Rotary Cool = Not Easy! 13b Swapped Pit Truck Gets Rear Mount Rad // 621 Golden Ep.014

Keeping a Rotary Cool = Not Easy! 13b Swapped Pit Truck Gets Rear Mount Rad // 621 Golden Ep.014

For those who don’t know, rotary engines tend to run hot. Like, real hot. And if you know us at all, you know that most of us are lacking that “mechanical sympathy” gene. That’s all a long-winded ...
Pit Truck Progress! Suppy Finishes a 13b Intake Manifold - Made From Scratch // 621 Golden Ep.013

Pit Truck Progress! Suppy Finishes a 13b Intake Manifold - Made From Scratch // 621 Golden Ep.013

Now that Sickcar is done, jumped, broken, and re-fixed - back to the priorities. Suppy’s still got a long way to go in making our rotary swapped pit truck a running, driving, shifting vehicle of g...