It is an older Tommykaira of some sort. I forget the name.

The Scoot headlights are a one off Koseki made for his car alone, and are not intended for sale. He painted the housings silver to black for contrast.

 

did you bring me a souveneir? =]

 

awesome pics, making me want to spend more money...

 

that's a Mitsuoka Orochi

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Dude? Whats up with that catloaf??..lol

 

Your one funny ****...hahaha
"your foot has touched the heavens!!! and your *** the throne!!!"

 

amazing pics and trip bro.. like everyone else i'm dying from envy.. a real dream come true..

I have a couple Q's for u about the Scoot if u don't mind..

What was the redline?
what does it feel like around town? it appears the car doesn't like partial throttle very much.. bucking and jerking...seems to like WOT only..

what is the power band like? peaky and revs up.. or does it have low end grunt?

what's the car like from 1st gear? does it zip thru all the gears fast? cuz it seems like the gear ratio is very long.. doesn't finish the gears very quickly...

does the car stall cuz the flywheel is too light and the revs drop too fast? or tuning quirks?

 

Ottoman- Your last question is answered in the post.

Joe

 

AWESOME thread!!!


I want to see a Rotor shaped sushi roll!!!!!








=Ben

 

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Redline is about 8000 rpms right now. It can do 10,000, but the engine in the car right now is a development engine for something much much better.

The car does not mind partial throttle and loves input.

It right now using the original FD 5 speed transmission right now, so the gearing is not set for the engine. It used to occasionally run a sequential transmission which felt much better as far as revving it up goes.

Car feels very linear, a lot of good low end pull and good top end too. Not as fast or peaky as say a 900 hp supra though. Top speed is not yet that high.

The main thing that makes this car very hard to drive is the way its setup. While it would be easy for koseki to hook up the engine and tune it on a motec and call it a day, as said, it is an R and D engine. That is why he still left it hooked up to the twin power FC Setup (ease of tuning, and changing settings). It idles on 2 rotors mainly for the reason of ease of drivability and lower fuel consumption around town, past 4000 rpms all 4 rotors engage. When the rpms drop when driving around town or after racing/revving, there is a fuel cut. That is why if just a wee little bit of gas is not given at the right timing, the engine likes to stall, even with koseki driving it. It is just the way it is right now.

 

this is the BEST vacation EVER!!!

 

nice pics mate

 

you lucky son of *%#$!!
Can you speak Japanese or did you have a hard time communicating with people.
And yes! definitely go to Tsukuba.

 

The language barrier was there, my japanese is not fluent, but i know a little bit. My job in so cal helps me ( i work for a japanese company )

Hopefully this summer, i can go again for 7s day, Super GT and visit more sightseeing, and not as much car stuff.

 

thank you sooo much. please tell me what i have to do to live the way you do lol

 

Would those headlights work with the stock hood and their bumper?

 

Yes, they would.

 

I don't get it, why does the speedo only go up to 180 KMH?

 

in japan the cars are speed limited to 180 by law but you can purchase 0-300km/h from aftermarket companies

 

wow, thanks! you learn something new every day. I just saw the feed tach and figured that the whole cluster was feed. so you are saying that that is the factory speedo?

 

yeah looks like they just swapped the tach.

 

Thats not OEM speedo, but does not make sense to me, unless they want to update the look of the speedo but still keep it original.

 

Sweet pics, so did you pick up any jdm goodies?

 

There was that R magic staff jacket that i got as a gift, a ton of catalogues/magazines. I shipped out 1 - 2 parts for friends, and a Radar/Laser detector device for me. I got 3 car models too. No crazy car parts yet. lol