2nd gen touge drivers
Originally Posted by 'Tyler [S5 FC
Are you ready for my criticism, not hatin, just noticing. How come ur in third gear right there? Under 3k rpm, thats like no power. You shoulda been in second floorin it right there!!!
zoom-zoom... not cruise-cruise
zoom-zoom... not cruise-cruise
I don't have any "good shots" of the actual road but next time I'm up there I'll document it with pictures for everyone. Truly one of our bests over here. It is very technical and has claimed a plethora of cars that are drawn to it. It is very narrow almost to the point of taking one lane and dividing it into 2. The road quality is superb and very smooth. Multiple hairpins back after back and tons of S-turns. Hawk pads weep on it. lol.
One of my favorites. Pictures next time I promise!
Thats funny, the better of the roads that I posted (first set of pics) is 152 (in my area), and even better, it has a similar looking section to the one you posted of your 151. cool stuff
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after reading this thread i want to drive my car up to NH to the Kangamangus Highway. my dad used to have me ride up on our bikes and cruise the road, about 100 mile of mountain highway was great. now i wanna drive the 7 up to give er a whirl
these guys have a few pics of it as well
http://forums.nicoclub.com/zerothread?id=253865
these guys have a few pics of it as well
http://forums.nicoclub.com/zerothread?id=253865
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after reading this thread i want to drive my car up to NH to the Kangamangus Highway. my dad used to have me ride up on our bikes and cruise the road, about 100 mile of mountain highway was great. now i wanna drive the 7 up to give er a whirl
these guys have a few pics of it as well
http://forums.nicoclub.com/zerothread?id=253865
these guys have a few pics of it as well
http://forums.nicoclub.com/zerothread?id=253865
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I am soooo mad at myself!!! 
I just had one of the most fun days of my entire life on Sunday. And didn't even notice my battery was dead on my camera until i tried to use it. So no pics, no proof of the awesomeness that me and my good buddy, Kevin, experienced! Well it snowed Saturday night, and just kept sprinkling throughout Sunday. So the roads had a nice inch of snow and ice on the roads. Luckily I just put on my winter studded tires, so my FC drives like a rally car with these bitches! It handles so good, even on ice. My buddy also has winter tires, and is one of the few drivers I know that I can trust.... with my car. So anyways to the story. We started off cruisin from parking lot to parking lot, drifting around, ****** with each other. You know, tandem drifts, drift circles next to each other, no handed drifts around parking barriers, you know, the usual **** you see at drift demos. After each parking lot, we'd stop and get out of the car all giddy, yellin to each other "Dude, did you see that, that was sick! I can't believe you just pulled that off!" It was hilarious, after we got used to the conditions and our cars, we both decided..... Snowy Touge Run!!!!! So we head to Gold Camp Drive, scope the sitch. With our ***** in tact, we start runnin the mountain. My buddy in front, me behind. And we were drifting at a constant rate! Even in the straights we were sideways, but not only that I was about eight inches from him the whole time! When he was sideways, I wasn't behind him, I was ****** next to him! When I knew was gonna transition, I'd back off, let him transition and get right back on him! I mean it was sick! We got groups of 15+ sledders cheering us on, and my adrenaline was flowing full speed. I mean I had zero room for error, and he had barely any. I mean one screw up we would've been off a cliff or in some rocks. I have rarely had as much fun as I did yesterday, and nothing I can say can justify what was actually happening yesterday. Only a camera could've shown, but I only got one pic before it died, and it was a stupid hard parking pic... Damnit!!!! But oh well, I'd like for you guys to see what happened, but I'll live with the memories of the skill and precision it took to accomplish what me and kevin did yesterday! Only us will know... and the random sledders and other on lookers. But its okay, cause this memory will live on with us!
I just had one of the most fun days of my entire life on Sunday. And didn't even notice my battery was dead on my camera until i tried to use it. So no pics, no proof of the awesomeness that me and my good buddy, Kevin, experienced! Well it snowed Saturday night, and just kept sprinkling throughout Sunday. So the roads had a nice inch of snow and ice on the roads. Luckily I just put on my winter studded tires, so my FC drives like a rally car with these bitches! It handles so good, even on ice. My buddy also has winter tires, and is one of the few drivers I know that I can trust.... with my car. So anyways to the story. We started off cruisin from parking lot to parking lot, drifting around, ****** with each other. You know, tandem drifts, drift circles next to each other, no handed drifts around parking barriers, you know, the usual **** you see at drift demos. After each parking lot, we'd stop and get out of the car all giddy, yellin to each other "Dude, did you see that, that was sick! I can't believe you just pulled that off!" It was hilarious, after we got used to the conditions and our cars, we both decided..... Snowy Touge Run!!!!! So we head to Gold Camp Drive, scope the sitch. With our ***** in tact, we start runnin the mountain. My buddy in front, me behind. And we were drifting at a constant rate! Even in the straights we were sideways, but not only that I was about eight inches from him the whole time! When he was sideways, I wasn't behind him, I was ****** next to him! When I knew was gonna transition, I'd back off, let him transition and get right back on him! I mean it was sick! We got groups of 15+ sledders cheering us on, and my adrenaline was flowing full speed. I mean I had zero room for error, and he had barely any. I mean one screw up we would've been off a cliff or in some rocks. I have rarely had as much fun as I did yesterday, and nothing I can say can justify what was actually happening yesterday. Only a camera could've shown, but I only got one pic before it died, and it was a stupid hard parking pic... Damnit!!!! But oh well, I'd like for you guys to see what happened, but I'll live with the memories of the skill and precision it took to accomplish what me and kevin did yesterday! Only us will know... and the random sledders and other on lookers. But its okay, cause this memory will live on with us!
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From: Austin/Round Rock
good thing this thread popped back up becasuse i got a story to tell now....
so me and my friends decided to go on a last touge run for the year before my friend leaves to fiji and new zealand for vacation and a cousins wedding. so we go: me in my fc, vince in his s14, anthony in his rhd civic and alveen in his band new evo VIII. we get there and find it hella foggy and patch with wet and dry spots and none of us can really run except alveen. so we all decide to jump in his evo. yeah thats right all four in an evo and run the touge. it was all fun and games feeling the boost of the turbo and the awd system on snow settings. so alveen decides to run harder and vince tells him be careful cause its his first time running the evo and because he is used to running in his hachi with 80 hp. so he says ill try and the next thing we know we see a civic and a g35 cruising pretty fast trying to get home im guessing so we decide to chace them down. we pass the civic no problem and evan(who rode along with anthony) said something about low beam visibility being better than high beam and i said yeah they teach that **** in drivers ed. and then his smart *** says i bet they teach you not to pass a civic going 65 up hill on a touge in the fog too huh and right as he says that alveen is trying to pass the g35 on a right turn on the outside and then all the sudden the cars oversteers. Alveen being used to rwd, super over corrects the evo and the front wheels pull us to the left and the next thing we know we are flying off a 6ft ledge into the black obyss...at the time i tought it was an actual cliff. the evo stops and we figured out it was only a 6 ft drop and were in a dirt road the was off to the side and the evo was wrecked in the front end...
so whats the lesson children...never push yourself in an car your not used to in drive train and power on the first time. especially on the touge, passing cars in the fog.
poor evo :[
so me and my friends decided to go on a last touge run for the year before my friend leaves to fiji and new zealand for vacation and a cousins wedding. so we go: me in my fc, vince in his s14, anthony in his rhd civic and alveen in his band new evo VIII. we get there and find it hella foggy and patch with wet and dry spots and none of us can really run except alveen. so we all decide to jump in his evo. yeah thats right all four in an evo and run the touge. it was all fun and games feeling the boost of the turbo and the awd system on snow settings. so alveen decides to run harder and vince tells him be careful cause its his first time running the evo and because he is used to running in his hachi with 80 hp. so he says ill try and the next thing we know we see a civic and a g35 cruising pretty fast trying to get home im guessing so we decide to chace them down. we pass the civic no problem and evan(who rode along with anthony) said something about low beam visibility being better than high beam and i said yeah they teach that **** in drivers ed. and then his smart *** says i bet they teach you not to pass a civic going 65 up hill on a touge in the fog too huh and right as he says that alveen is trying to pass the g35 on a right turn on the outside and then all the sudden the cars oversteers. Alveen being used to rwd, super over corrects the evo and the front wheels pull us to the left and the next thing we know we are flying off a 6ft ledge into the black obyss...at the time i tought it was an actual cliff. the evo stops and we figured out it was only a 6 ft drop and were in a dirt road the was off to the side and the evo was wrecked in the front end...
so whats the lesson children...never push yourself in an car your not used to in drive train and power on the first time. especially on the touge, passing cars in the fog.
poor evo :[
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Damn thats sketchy! One of my biggest fears is being killed by someone else while they are racing! Glad everyone was okay though! So is the car totalled or is it fixable? Hopefully he had full coverage on his brand new car!
Sold my buddy my old car, and within two months he totalled it runnin the Touge! And he only had liability! Sucks for him, cause he's still payin me off. He's almost done though, but I almost feel bad every month when I take his money! Oh well, his mistake, not mine!
Sold my buddy my old car, and within two months he totalled it runnin the Touge! And he only had liability! Sucks for him, cause he's still payin me off. He's almost done though, but I almost feel bad every month when I take his money! Oh well, his mistake, not mine!
Dude! rotarybeat imma seriously take a road trip up there to just take some pics with your car & my car (my car is black BTW). your photos are amazing and the white goes so well with it.
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Damn thats sketchy! One of my biggest fears is being killed by someone else while they are racing! Glad everyone was okay though! So is the car totalled or is it fixable? Hopefully he had full coverage on his brand new car!
Sold my buddy my old car, and within two months he totalled it runnin the Touge! And he only had liability! Sucks for him, cause he's still payin me off. He's almost done though, but I almost feel bad every month when I take his money! Oh well, his mistake, not mine!
Sold my buddy my old car, and within two months he totalled it runnin the Touge! And he only had liability! Sucks for him, cause he's still payin me off. He's almost done though, but I almost feel bad every month when I take his money! Oh well, his mistake, not mine!
Hey Spanners,
Do E30's get like respect over there in the US is your scene (drift/touge)? They seem to be outnumbered by Jap cars making them rare in the scene? Over here we don't have Touge since our country is flat, and in drift about 90% of the cars in drift are E30 because it's the cheapest solution. We are building a E30 for next season powered by a S50 engine (E36 M3), but it will be nothing special. If yoiu realy wanna get the attention of the judges it seems a Japanese car works better.
I hope you somewhat got the essence of my question, and might care to awnser it,
Riz.
Do E30's get like respect over there in the US is your scene (drift/touge)? They seem to be outnumbered by Jap cars making them rare in the scene? Over here we don't have Touge since our country is flat, and in drift about 90% of the cars in drift are E30 because it's the cheapest solution. We are building a E30 for next season powered by a S50 engine (E36 M3), but it will be nothing special. If yoiu realy wanna get the attention of the judges it seems a Japanese car works better.
I hope you somewhat got the essence of my question, and might care to awnser it,
Riz.
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Hey Riz,
In the drift scene which I am goin to start competing in next year we have two competitions, d1nz which is national or drift south which is just the south island and is run alot better. In regards to an e30 getting respect we havent tried it just yet but I think it will as does the fc because 95% of drifters here are nissans, Silvias Cerfiros skylines Laurell etc.
The picture of the E30 is not too clear but it is a M325 and he loves it and those popular nissans are no match for the e30 or fc over the hills.
The thing about events is if you are different you get noticed and it doesn't matter how crap you are people will notice your progress because you stand out and not just another nissan (relevant to here anyway) one of the local ones we like to watch is a mitsi vr4 converted to 2wd (mitsi vr2)
In the drift scene which I am goin to start competing in next year we have two competitions, d1nz which is national or drift south which is just the south island and is run alot better. In regards to an e30 getting respect we havent tried it just yet but I think it will as does the fc because 95% of drifters here are nissans, Silvias Cerfiros skylines Laurell etc.
The picture of the E30 is not too clear but it is a M325 and he loves it and those popular nissans are no match for the e30 or fc over the hills.
The thing about events is if you are different you get noticed and it doesn't matter how crap you are people will notice your progress because you stand out and not just another nissan (relevant to here anyway) one of the local ones we like to watch is a mitsi vr4 converted to 2wd (mitsi vr2)
Hey Riz,
In the drift scene which I am goin to start competing in next year we have two competitions, d1nz which is national or drift south which is just the south island and is run alot better. In regards to an e30 getting respect we havent tried it just yet but I think it will as does the fc because 95% of drifters here are nissans, Silvias Cerfiros skylines Laurell etc.
The picture of the E30 is not too clear but it is a M325 and he loves it and those popular nissans are no match for the e30 or fc over the hills.
The thing about events is if you are different you get noticed and it doesn't matter how crap you are people will notice your progress because you stand out and not just another nissan (relevant to here anyway) one of the local ones we like to watch is a mitsi vr4 converted to 2wd (mitsi vr2)
In the drift scene which I am goin to start competing in next year we have two competitions, d1nz which is national or drift south which is just the south island and is run alot better. In regards to an e30 getting respect we havent tried it just yet but I think it will as does the fc because 95% of drifters here are nissans, Silvias Cerfiros skylines Laurell etc.
The picture of the E30 is not too clear but it is a M325 and he loves it and those popular nissans are no match for the e30 or fc over the hills.
The thing about events is if you are different you get noticed and it doesn't matter how crap you are people will notice your progress because you stand out and not just another nissan (relevant to here anyway) one of the local ones we like to watch is a mitsi vr4 converted to 2wd (mitsi vr2)
Riz.