700hp 2.7l Big Bore Subaru GC8 Time Attack Car Machine

700hp 2.7l Big Bore Subaru GC8 Time Attack Car Machine

  This right here is a picture perfect sample of a home brew time attack build that’s also savagely fast. Sure, pro race shops may have the fit/finish and eye candy. But when your sole focus is s...
The Forgotten Vintage JDM Lux Cruiser: Crispy Clean ’88 Toyota Soarer

The Forgotten Vintage JDM Lux Cruiser: Crispy Clean ’88 Toyota Soarer

  There are so many hyped up old cars that come into the US under the 25 year rule, that a lot of the lesser fawned over ones tend to fall under the radar. This is one of those cars: the first ge...
Full Tube Chassis CRX Racecar With a 30 Year Old Engine (And it Still Rips!)

Full Tube Chassis CRX Racecar With a 30 Year Old Engine (And it Still Rips!)

  Gridlife’s time attack and road racing series has seriously brought out some of the very best and most interesting builds across America. Much like this full tube chassis old school CRX, built ...
Most Underrated 90s JDM Legend? Immaculate Widebody 300ZX Build at Gridlife

Most Underrated 90s JDM Legend? Immaculate Widebody 300ZX Build at Gridlife

  Nissan’s 300zx might be one of the most unloved, and arguably underrated 90s era JDM halo cars. Sure, they were hard to work on. And maybe didn’t make the same power as a 2jz could. But as with...
BMW V8 Powered, RWD Swapped, Rear-Radiator’d Volkswagen Mk3 Golf GTI

BMW V8 Powered, RWD Swapped, Rear-Radiator’d Volkswagen Mk3 Golf GTI

  When you’re ill with fabrication and engineering, this is what you end up with when you decide to do something with all the spare parts you’ve got laying around the garage: a BMW M62 powered mk...
Touge Factory’s K24 Swapped BMW E30 is the Perfect JDM/Euro Combo

Touge Factory’s K24 Swapped BMW E30 is the Perfect JDM/Euro Combo

  We imagine there was a time where 1JZs or LSs were super cheap and plentiful, which is exactly why they became so popular to swap in the first place. So what’s the cheap, hot swap right now? Ho...
The Loudest Subaru at Gridlife: 600hp+ STI Swapped GC8 Time Attack Car

The Loudest Subaru at Gridlife: 600hp+ STI Swapped GC8 Time Attack Car

  The Subaru GC8 is our favorite Subaru chassis ever. Crazy light for an AWD car, with all those Group A rally feels. You don’t see them terribly often in time attack circles, but when you do, th...
1100whp Camaro… And it Handles, Too! ’67 Pro Touring Pikes Peak Racer

1100whp Camaro… And it Handles, Too! ’67 Pro Touring Pikes Peak Racer

  Back in 1967, the word “handling” meant some real different stuff in the engineering rooms at Chevy. These days, we have way easier access to big power, sticky tires, and big ‘ol brakes. The re...
Big Turbo, Big Aero, Big Tires + 2JZ Power: Dai Yoshihara’s Toyota GT86 Pikes Peak Racer!

Big Turbo, Big Aero, Big Tires + 2JZ Power: Dai Yoshihara’s Toyota GT86 Pikes Peak Racer!

  This here Toyota GT86 has a colored history: SEMA car, drift car, time attack car, and now – Pikes Peak racer. But it’s not as easy as just bolting on some big aero and calling it a day. Evasiv...
NASCAR + Turbo + Hand Controls = Rob Parsons’ Pikes Peak Ready NASCAR (Spoiler: it’s a HANDFUL)

NASCAR + Turbo + Hand Controls = Rob Parsons’ Pikes Peak Ready NASCAR (Spoiler: it’s a HANDFUL)

  You may know our boy Rob Parsons as a shredder in his all-hand controls v8 S14, but he’s been getting into grippy boi stuff lately. So the obvious step for a guy like Rob, is to go all in… like...
Vaughn Gittin Jr’s All-Metal ’69 Ford Mustang RTR-X is an Insane Build You May Have Never Heard of

Vaughn Gittin Jr’s All-Metal ’69 Ford Mustang RTR-X is an Insane Build You May Have Never Heard of

  Is anyone sleeping on Vaughn Gittin Jr.? Probably not. But just in case you are, or you haven’t been following him for almost a decade, you may have missed his wild 1969 Ford Mustang RTR-X buil...
One of the Rarest Production Subarus in the World: Impreza 22b

One of the Rarest Production Subarus in the World: Impreza 22b

  This is peak rally nerd-ism when it comes to production cars: the Subaru 22b. Sure, there was the Tommi Makinen edition Evo, but this here car is special – extremely so. With just over 400 of t...