Hey everyone welcome to the much needed updated pages.

Please sign the guestbook. I enjoy reading peoples comments concerns and usually reply to questions and requests fairly promply.

I am Ian Kotowich and I design the look for aftermarket cars for fun. I used to anyway, the site's been changed slightly, to allow me to make public domail the knowledge i have accumulated in my backyard experimentation in the field of automobile transportation. if anyone wants to see them come back, or copies not compressed by cardomain, just let me know.
New stuff will appear here from now on:

March 27th 2005

motorcycle engine in the back.

March 26th 2005:
Shittiest day for the mustang, the door handle broke, allowing no other way to get inside, not too big of a deal(once the window had a forearm sized hole in it), The rx7 had the same problem, except the rx7 wasn't a tight little bitch when it came to manually popping the door, the jamb mechanism on the mustang is unnessacaril stiff, requiring extra force to pry the handle up. it's no suprise that this hasn't happened sooner. To complicate the matter, the clutch cable snapped shortly thereafter when I was on a delivery run(order from Homers, thier pizza's great) i managed to get back to the store by speed shifting it through the gears and not stopping for any lights(very foolish, do not attempt). i ended up delivering the rest of the day with the oldsmoblie, which has been doing surprisngly well.

This easter will give me some much needed wrench time on the bike, once the mustang is all fixed up(which will idealistically be by saturday night if not sooner). The weather has finally taken a turn for the weather, it may be possible to start up the bike, assuming the rear suspension is funtional, it'll be a good opportunity to knock all the bugs out. Once it gets milder still, I'll start fiberglassing. There's a bike show near the end of april, in town here, that I wouldn't mind seeing it in.

Fuel vaporization may be possible much more easily with ethanol fuel. one would only need some manner of heated container that kept itself at 75 degrees or so(the boiling point of etanol) and the pressure inside at a steady 30-50 psi, the vapor alcohol would be an ideal fuel for the combustion engine. More posted later

March 12th 2005:
Lately i've been experimenting with alternative fuels as a way to say "fuck you" to the oil pigs that keep rising the gas prices, i urge everyone else to do the same, if you want some great ideas for this among other things. You should check out the pages of George Wiseman and his company Eagle research If you buy anythign form him, be sure to tell him I referred you from my website, that would be awesome. So far I've constructed my own hydrogen cell using some pvc piping and scrap metal, no gas saving was noticed in the mustang, but definitely a noticable power increase. My theory is the ECU is confused and doesnt realize that the hydrogen coming in is extra fuel(because hydrogen doesn't produce CO2 when burned, it produces water, ergo the oxygen sensor doesnt know) SO i have to figure out how to get the ecu to inject less fuel, perhaps by altering the signal from either the MAF, or oxygen sensor. I'll be posting some diagrams of my Cell so if anyone wants to build one they can as soon as i get arund to doing them. In the meantime here's someone who had a similar idea, which i used as a template and tried to improve upon. Hydro boost system the only thing is, this system is designed for a carburated vehicle(a 1983 eagle 4x4 station wagon) my system was designed with modern fuel injection systems in mind.

Last valentines day i purchased a 1988 ford mustang LX,
Currently has a SOHC 2.3L engine with a hydrogen injection system mated to a 5 speed manual transmission. In this vehicle it's all about getting the most miles per gallon(or for us Canucks litres per 100km), which stands now at about 30mpg(a large improvement over the cutlass's 16-18mpg). once the hydrogen cell starts working with the engine, estimated mpg will be 45-60
here's some pics.

okay just one for now, been too busy working to take any better ones.

MY idea for a hydrogen/ethanol car that would not ony perform but get great gas mileage.

A sportbike chopper, the best of both worlds. The picture is based loosely on a Yamaha 750 genesis

Alo work on my bike has continued, however it's outward appearance hasn't changed so no point in taking photos. the rear suspension is taking a little more time than it should be, as the springs are really hard to compress to the right heigh to mount them in thier new spot, and the shaft drive that's plagued and limited the aftermarket potential of this bike is once again getting in the way of making this process easy. Don't get me wrong though, when the bike is working the shaft is great, no maintnence, not chain or belt ajusting or tightening. it just becomes problematic of one wanted to switch to a larger rear tire or fool around with the suspension. I'll try and do some picture worthy progress pretty soon. The big plan is to get it ready in time for Sturgis bike week in august and drive it from saskatoon. If anyone is going to be there let me know, it be nice to put names to faces.

Most of my efforts have focused on my new(purchased april 2004) car, this 1981 cutlass supreme. It's got a 305 cu inch with an edelbrock carb, performance cams, new exhaust system and a whole lot of other goodies. Whadya think of the homemade custom front end? should it make the trip from photoshop to reality?

this would be the ultimate form.

here's some photochops i've done recently for some people

just what everyone wants in the summer time, jetski and a full stereo system. fishermen may get pissed off

Experimenting with creating 3d models yields this sport truck, that really has little to do with a truck, closer to an two seat suv.

more 3d model exerimentation.
check out the cool rims

ANother 3d car anyone else think it looks like a fiero?

This is the proposed motorcycle project, tell me what you think in the guestbook.

This is what we got to start with...

Progress: dec 17 2004

Progress Dec 27th 2004

and this is the finished product?

IN 3D!