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Buying guides, build advice and opinion from TUNERS: Japanese icons, modern BMW M, drift, Porsche, trucks, bikes and the people who build them.

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Drift

Spend your first three grand in this exact order

Diff, seat, tires, suspension, angle, hydro. Build it in that sequence and you will be quicker than the guy who bought the angle kit first.

Aug 31, 2026

BMW

An E30 buyer's guide for everyone priced out of the M3

The homologation car became an asset class. The 325i sitting next to it in the classifieds is still a car, and it does most of the same magic for a tenth of it.

Aug 31, 2026

Porsche

Nobody wants the front-engine Porsches. Their loss.

The 924, 944 and 928 get treated as the Porsches that do not count. That reading is wrong, and it is the last genuinely cheap corner of the brand.

Aug 30, 2026

Motorcycles

Riding gear, from bare minimum to the stuff that lasts

A $90 jacket and a $250 jacket look identical on the hanger. They stop looking identical at 40mph, about one second into a slide.

Aug 30, 2026

Trucks

Buying an OBS Chevy before the clean ones are gone

The single-cab shortbed premium is already brutal and still climbing. Where these trucks rot, which drivetrain to ignore, and why the boring one is the smart buy.

Aug 30, 2026

Off-Road

How much used 4x4 does $12,000 actually buy?

Enough for a solid axle and a locker, or enough for somebody's abandoned project with fresh paint over a rotten frame. Ten minutes decides which.

Aug 29, 2026

Electric

An EV swap costs more than the donor car. Plan for it.

The motor is the cheap part. Everything else on the shopping list is what turns a clever weekend idea into a two-year build with a five-figure invoice.

Aug 29, 2026

Builds

Which tools to buy first, and which can wait

Buy the wrong tools in the wrong order and you get a drawer full of regret and no safe way to lift the car. Here is the sequence that matches the work.

Aug 29, 2026

Motorsport

Your first five grand of seat time, spent with a purpose

An illustrative $5,000 budget that puts preparation, coaching and usable track time ahead of trophy parts.

Aug 29, 2026

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