Low Standards Garage – STREET COVER

Dropping into South Australia for the motorsport festival, we couldn’t help but stop by Low Standards Garage. We met up with Jay, owner of Low standards and Josh from Castle Car Media.

Jay wanted a Japanese style workshop, as it sits, no moving things for the photos, no cleaning up for anything. With the theme of the workshop, Jay has created and accumulated some projects, from running the 2J Honda Odyssey, 12A VN Commodore, to the Coffee van International COE and Skyline Monster truck currently under progress. Jay has projects on the go, projects waiting to be started and visions happening for upcoming ideas.

One thing for sure, he isn’t short of ideas. We had all look at a few of them whilst we visited. Quite possibly the wildest odyssey in Australia, if not hemisphere is the RWD, 4 seat, 2JZ, RB1 Honda Odyssey. Built to take 4 people out in style, skid and drift all day long. 4x brides, harnesses and roll cage, custom cage, fuel tank, dash display, modified engine bay chassis, modified firewall to make room for the 2J and manual box to fit. Sporting Work VSKF’s all around, this odyssey is an insane build. All 350z driveline along with custom transmission tunnel to complete the conversion, its not as simple as you think making the conversion. Emtron dash and electronics powered by a Motec PDM. 400kw to get the RB1 going, Jay has assured us to stay tuned for what he has lined up for this build. And trust me, you should!

Quite a few rotaries floating about and we aren’t sad about that, in fact we love that! RX2, RX3, RX4 and RX7. Various stages of running and in progress on each of the cars, Summernats crowd would have seen the Odyssey and also the 20B triple rotor RX3. Having saved the RX3 from its unfaithful end in the bush, Jay decided to give it some new life and throw a 20B PP into the bay, fab and mount the AE86 subframe with BC BR Gold coilovers from his 4AGE KE70 drift car and drive the RX3 around to events. A lot of work has gone into the RX3, along with his Odyssey and every other insane project Jay has. The RX4 is a wealth of history in itself. Built in 1974, the RX4 was pitched against the Torana Xu1 and BMW 2002. Aiming for a more luxurious market, the larger production body over the RX3 made a great candidate for racing. Having rescued this RX4 from Queensland, Jay aims to get it running and on the road for Rotary revival in South Australia scheduled for July 2023.

Wheels, wheels and more wheels. Hayashi, Volk, SSR, Work, Advan, Watanabi, what’s your pick? There is no shortage of wheels in refurb and in use, no matter where you look there is a wheel that suits all of his builds. Longchamps on a Kenmeri, VSKF on the Odyssey. How about some sprint car wheels and tyres? I’m not sure you would want to put them on your street cover but they do make a cool seat! It does not matter what the wheels are, they are all used and swapped around from time to time. Drifting with VSKF will be enough to make some hot under the collar, Not Jay. If you have them, use them! To make some more hot under the colllar, Jay is running some immaculate Work Equip 01`s on his KE70 drift car.

Having Low Standards garage styled like your typical Japanese off the beaten path workshop, makes an absolute goldfield for what you may or may not find, Jay has done an amazing job bringing the culture over to Adelaide. I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves with the gallery below.