For once, a pleasant surprise.
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For once, a pleasant surprise.
I come to Japan twice a year because my folks live here, and in the town where they live there's a small tuning shop that focuses on drag racing and building up GT-Rs. I always stop by for a few hours whenever I come because there's always a car or two that are worth taking pictures of there, but today was a little different.
For once, I saw an FD parked in their lot. Boy, it sure has a lot of stickers on it...APEX'i stickers...Oh. OH. It's Imamura's championship-winning D1 car. So basically I got an hour to fart around with and inspect this car inside and out, and sit in it etc. etc. Apparently a few days ago there was a little event at the shop around the corner, with Greddy bringing out their V35 Skyline product mule, and also seeing appearances from the HKS Fairlady Z, the shop's 9-second R33 drag car, and the HKS Driving Performer R34 GT-R. If only I had booked my flight a few days earlier...
At any rate I took a bunch of pics of the FD, and I'll post a few of them when I finish editing them. The car seemed pretty nice. Personally I'm not really into drifting, but it was nice to see a professionally built race/drift car in person. It had all the stuff I'd expect in a drift car, from a super-clean engine bay, to basically every APEX'i part you can cram into a car. Not to mention it had all the stuff you'd expect of a quality-built race car. Fully welded chromoly roll-cage, a custom built dry-carbon enclosure for the nitrous tank, plus goodies like fiberglass doors and lexan windows. I was surprised to see electric windows, and it actually still had the stock AST (relocated). The Bride buckets it had were also not very compatible with a 186cm-tall gaijin like me, but sitting in it, the car definitely felt good. Anyways I've got to get back to photoshopping.
For once, I saw an FD parked in their lot. Boy, it sure has a lot of stickers on it...APEX'i stickers...Oh. OH. It's Imamura's championship-winning D1 car. So basically I got an hour to fart around with and inspect this car inside and out, and sit in it etc. etc. Apparently a few days ago there was a little event at the shop around the corner, with Greddy bringing out their V35 Skyline product mule, and also seeing appearances from the HKS Fairlady Z, the shop's 9-second R33 drag car, and the HKS Driving Performer R34 GT-R. If only I had booked my flight a few days earlier...
At any rate I took a bunch of pics of the FD, and I'll post a few of them when I finish editing them. The car seemed pretty nice. Personally I'm not really into drifting, but it was nice to see a professionally built race/drift car in person. It had all the stuff I'd expect in a drift car, from a super-clean engine bay, to basically every APEX'i part you can cram into a car. Not to mention it had all the stuff you'd expect of a quality-built race car. Fully welded chromoly roll-cage, a custom built dry-carbon enclosure for the nitrous tank, plus goodies like fiberglass doors and lexan windows. I was surprised to see electric windows, and it actually still had the stock AST (relocated). The Bride buckets it had were also not very compatible with a 186cm-tall gaijin like me, but sitting in it, the car definitely felt good. Anyways I've got to get back to photoshopping.
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Originally Posted by yuichiror
Where in Japan is this shop?
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AWSOME..... dude.... im just a armenian guy and i got off my *** and trying to learn japanese......... so far i just understood there are 3 differernt writing i guess "versions"... i belive they are "kaji" "katakana" and i frogot the other one stats with a H
haha.... anyone willing to help me out :] lol
sorry for jacking thread.......... awsome pics
haha.... anyone willing to help me out :] lol
sorry for jacking thread.......... awsome pics
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wow, im a full blooded white college kid, english=primary, german=secondary and japanese=learning tertiary, and to finish your though, its hiragana (easiest) katagana (harder but tought later) and kanji (pictographs taken from chinese (to my understanding))
but that car is CLEAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i love the partially chromed door!
but that car is CLEAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i love the partially chromed door!
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Originally Posted by snub disphenoid
Kuroiso, which is in Nasushiobara City, in Tochigi prefecture, ~1 hour north of Tokyo via the bullet train.
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Originally Posted by turBRO [ArTiN]
AWSOME..... dude.... im just a armenian guy and i got off my *** and trying to learn japanese......... so far i just understood there are 3 differernt writing i guess "versions"... i belive they are "kaji" "katakana" and i frogot the other one stats with a H
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Originally Posted by moconnor
Somebody should talk to them about their bumper fitment though.