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These photos are from the Japan leg of my Honeymoon back in January 2011, when it was freezing! Part #1 1. Early Morning in Shinjuku. You can tell it's early morning - it's the only time Shinjuku is this quiet! 2. A couple of rooftop pictures 3. Dropped in to Super Autobacs Tokyo Bay. Nice JZX100 in for service 4. Recaro Prams. Gee, you could buy the whole set! Recaro buckets, Recaro baby seat, Recaro Pram. 5. You can mix & match any colour you please for your new Pentax 6. Akibahara (akiba) 7. Nice NSX in the middle of Akibahara 8.
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More pics Grape Fanta + Koala Biscuits = win Found this random rooftop playland at a department store.. ride the pikachu maaan At a pet store I noticed JDM mice are a little different Popeye got his own drink range now Recaro baby seat Lots of people stop to watch the big screens in the street Yo, they dissin' Gold! Concrete City CLS Pimpin MOS Burger was So-so Akihabara has mad figurine stores Resin Gangstas, lol These ads were EVERYWHERE, I want a version up phone dammit! Took the Shinkansen to Osaka Found this awesome store right under the hotel at the train station. It smelled wonderful. So this is what you do - grab a box of them waffles, then go to AM/PM to grab a couple of cans of Asahi and some tubs of Haagen-Daas ice cream. Win. Went to the Aquarium It's pretty cool you go up like 8 levels or so and start off in a Rainforest type arrangement where you can see all sorts of things like otters and crabs, then you decend downwards into deeper waters. These things were huge, I want one for my fish tank The glass was dirty as, but I took a pic anyway - King Penguins! They are massive, and kick ass. Superfunhappy Dolphin Rides? Whale Shark Hungry... nom nom nom Spider Craaab, Spider Craaaaab Slanty Shanty Osaka Castle. Nice outside, good parks, bad ass motes, but inside is a bit lame since it's just like a museum and not built to replicate its original state of awesome. Next hotel I stayed at in Tokyo was more luxurious. Don't f**k with Robo-Toilet. This panel flipped down to even more buttons. Spa Bath and separate shower! WIN Random Tokyo Tower doesn't look very impressive, it's small as Evo Pajero
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Fuelled up... hit the road again.. landed at Daikoku Futo Was a quiet night, not much there but lots of nice cars came and went that I didn't get pics of. I heard this car coming long before I saw it... external gate roaring! It had a massive turbo. T88 I think. (excuse the shit blurry pic) Headed home and parked up for the night Few spots down there was another one Next day when I returned to Premium Rent they had this waiting.. bit out of my budget
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Part 3 Ok so next day I dropped back that nugget Mazda Alexa and decided to keep it real with the trusty JR Yamanote line First hit up Shibuya then walked through to Harajuku Hit up Burberry Black And Burberry Blue lol @ this store.. apart from my curious mates the store was filled with school girls for some reason Kiddy Land - Home of the Pedo Bear These things were leet, they link together to dance together. At about $25 each though, bit hefty LV had pretty lights... heaps of levels of stuff too Harajuku weirdos aren't there 24/7 unfortunately.. boo Anyways, next day I took a Taxi ride. This guy was a legend. I gave him the address in Japanese and I knew it was near by but it took him some time to find where it was (the Japanese street system is farked, most aren't named, it works off a grid system) Eventually he turned off the meter which had me worried but he ended up charging us only the basic fare!! Great guy! Arrived at destination.. Well well well what do we have here While waiting for the keys I browsed the magazines in the waiting room, check this out Hit the road Need supplies... Apple Fanta is mad. Grape Fanta still rules though. Pedo Bear's cousin got his face on a lollipop made of chocolate Jumped back in and set the GPS for Mt Fujis co-ordinates. Tunnels are cool.. Roads getting a little more interesting Had a refresher stop then jumped back in... In case you can't see the sat nav above here's a crop Didn't take any pics for a while.......... ........ Time for some KFC Rocked up to some random park Nice view Park was really nice and peaceful. Heaps of Koi in the water Sun setting.. time to hit the road again Smelled this place from a mile away, just had to stop Yah Lots of confusion later and it was on like donkey kong
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One of my favourite touring cars of all time - the Calsonic R32 JGTC cars make our V8 Supercars look like a joke. They are so awesome in every way. Seeing them out on track was a true delight. I was too fat for many of these seats. True story. Rays reppin fluro pink rims on their stand INGS 370Z was very tidy. Subtle appearance ftw This R33 had me salivating.... ...as did this R32 March (Micra) cup cars look like fun. For the Honda fans, a proper Civic Type R. Nice brakes. There were a few Z Tune R34 GT-Rs on display as you'd expect - including this one, the original Nismo Omori Factory Z-Tune Concept car. Hearing these four cars roaring around was great I think most of the 350Z S-Tune population came to visit There were quite a lot of 400Rs present, here's a couple Even Nismo 270R's made an appearance More carpark hotness... Mad vans This is what's left of a 270R Saw a few Evo wagons. I like them, something different. Queen St branching out to Japan? Even a Smart ForFour can't escape modification in Japan Hardtop ftw Didn't get to take pics in all the car parks, I left it a bit late and a lot of cars had left by the time I got there. Heading home we cruised alongside a real tasty FC3S
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Part 2 Sunday, Nismo Festival Day. We headed out nice and early for Fuji Speedway. Here are a few of my favourite pics, there are many more (especially of car park cars) I will post into their own gallery on my webspace later when I have more time. Maybe if I press some buttons.......... hmm nope... JDM Nav FTL. Luckily we had our own Navman with us which saved our asses many a time This was a hint that we were heading in the right direction The amount of nice cars that came flying by was crazy. Even a white NSX-R! I think my friend managed to grab a few more pics - I was on the wrong side of the car and it was too cold to hang out the window. Mt Fuji was a good indicator we were going the right way. This Lancia HF Integrale was awesome! A girl driving it too, and she wasn't shy about giving it stick. Very quick little car. Ding ding ding! We have a winner Nice M35 Stagea There were many car parks and all full of gold. I took a few quick snaps on the way in of the cars near ours. These two GTRs were very tastefully done Old school love A white Toyota Century. Only saw maybe 2 of these while in Japan, compared to hundreds of black ones. This was probably my favourite 350Z of the day. Was truly beautiful in the flesh. R31House had so many great examples on display - both on their stand and out the back in the parking lot behind. This wagon was tits - although it was hard to get a good pic of it. The sticker on the front guard says it all I spied another hot wagon behind the R31House stand. This pipe near the rear wheel is interesting....... Bad ass transporter HKS had this beast on their stand. It was immaculate and had some really tasteful mods I could only dream of being able to afford. Gran Turismo fans might recognize this DR30 This thing was so loud when they started it up I thought I was going deaf. The Godfather. Hako!
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I just realised that I haven't posted up my Japan photo diaries here. With another trip coming up soon I thought I best start from the beginning. Firstly, the photos from my December 2009 trip: I've kept the pics to the bare minimum for the story but those on slower connections might want to go grab a cup of coffee. Part 1 Finally arrived in Shinjuku at about 10pm and it was pouring rain. This was to be the theme of the Holiday really - I think I experienced all of Japan's December Rainfall during the days I visited. Was quite buggered so after checking in, went down to trusty McDonalds for an Ebi Burger (Prawn Burger). I figured if I was going to eat McDonalds in Japan I may as well get something that I can't get locally, and can I just say GREAT SUCCESS! Ebi Burger is awesome! I wish we had these in Aus. Retired back to the Hotel to watch some TV. Super Beaver, WTF? I sat and watched this in amusement for quite some time. Emo kids and some whack puppet with a funny voice. Woke up the next morning nice and early ready to go collect our first hire car. The weather was thankfully much clearer. We found a 24hr Cafe near to the hotel that was pretty good for fast cheap food. I opted for a Chicken Katsu Curry for breakfast. It was REALLY tasty! Ventured on to pick up hire car #1, which was a Mazda Alexa (3) 4WD. Gutless and horrid but easy enough to drive around town. First stop, Chiba Super Autobacs The car park was full of some pretty cool rides. I'm not sure exactly what this thing is, but I know it's a Daihatsu. I really liked this R32. It was absolutely immaculate inside out. Inside Autobacs was like Autobarn on steroids, and maybe acid too. There was lots of crazy stuff to buy! Unfortunately I was very limited on storage space for goodies so couldn't go ballistic in the air fresheners section like I wanted. Grabbed a few though, a couple of Hello Kitty ones too. They had heaps of bling accessories for your VIP car. Some were cool but most pretty gaudy. Next we headed for Crystal, took the wrong driveway though but found this beast hiding Crystal, ZING! There was a tasty white JZX90 in the garage being worked on at the time. I wasn't a fan of the new Work wheel design until I saw this stand. They look so hot in the satin black finish with the right size/offset to give dish and concave. Very similar to CE28N I think. These ones really stole my heart though, lol. This somehow found its way upstairs Yes please! Crystal had so many great things. Unfortunately a lot of what I wanted wasn't in stock so I came away with only a few parts. Amongst all the crazy JDM vans you see the odd American one. This one had Watanabes I think - pimp I spotted this Crown (I think?) driving past. I'm probably alone on this one but I dig 2 tone. Next stop for the day was Up Garage. These guys have so much in the way of second hand parts. A few bargains amongst the lot but not much to suit my car that I don't already have. Plenty of wheels (this was about 1/3 of their collection on display) Coil overs galore, cheap seats in the background Exhausts This turned up as we were leaving, lots of vans like this in Japan. I'm a fan. Before I left, had to grab a drink for the road. Dr Pepper hell yes! The Up Garage vending machine plays music and makes broom broom noises, I like it. Battled the traffic and headed back to park the car up at the hotel overnight. Went for a quiet beer near the hotel with my mate. So many great beers on tap in Japan! This HUB "english" pub had the soccer on so we dropped by. Weirdly they remove the head from the beer though. Gimme my foam back dammit! Next morning I headed out to Yashio Factory to grab my pink bits for the Silvia. The workshop was pretty dead that day, a young girl and dude sat in the tiny office and that was it. They spoke no English so I relied on the very few Japanese words I know to grab the couple of parts I wanted. They had a nice 180 in pieces in the garage. Afterwards, I headed to Disney Land. Was kind of boring due to lack of awesome rides but there were a few cool ones. It rained half way through the day so everyone rushed for the shops. Couldn't buy much merchandise due to the human crush happening inside. Pepper Lunch was conveniently located near my hotel. I love Pepper Lunch!
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English GPS is available as an option for most cars from Nissan Rent-a-car. I usually book through http://www2.tocoo.jp and pick up from Shinjuku Eki Nishiguchi outlet. Hakone is a nice area to visit. I'm going to visit the five lakes area as well on my next trip. As mentioned above, the phone number method can be a bit hit-and-miss. What I do now is work out where I want to go beforehand, look up the co-ordinates on Google Maps and then convert the co-ordinates to various formats (the GPS uses a different format to Google Maps, I can't remember which exact type at this moment in time) which so far has proven to be 100% accurate for me. I just make up a "to-do list" of destinations at home before my trip and then decide where I'm going to go on the day. If you can't get the English GPS option, the Japanese GPS isn't too difficult to figure out (just look at the icons) but for the sake of 1000 Yen I'll take the English option where possible! Oh, this may sound silly but it caught me out once - you can't input anything into the GPS unless you've got the handbrake on. If you're driving around and your passenger is attempting to change the route, wondering why the icons are greyed out and unselectable, the handbrake is the reason why.
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Not long to go now... I've got everything booked Will be attending on Sunday the 16th 100%
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Anyone Put 20's On A R34?
d0p3y replied to antonio69er's topic in Suspension, braking, tyres and drivetrain
These ones I have for sale came off R34 GT-T.. it did require rolled guards and as you can see the tyres are a little stretched. Car has Tein coil overs. Was no big issues with scrubbing but some wiring in the drivers front guard needed to be tucked up a little bit out of the way to be on the safe side. -
[syd] Fs: Vertini Hennessey Wheels
d0p3y replied to d0p3y's topic in For Sale (Private Car Parts and Accessories)
Let me know your mobile number and your postcode and I'll get back to you with a quote to courier them to your place. If they don't sell locally within the next couple of days then sending them down is definitely a possiblity. -
Hi All, Have these for sale and would like to get rid of them before my Christmas holiday. They were fitted to a R34 GT-T previously. The wheels are in excellent condition with no gutter marks or other damage to report. Vertini Hennessey Front Wheels: 20x8.5, 5x114.3, +35 Offset Front Tyres: Toyo Proxes 4 (near new - approx 90% tread remaining) Front Tyres Size: 225/35/R20 Rear Wheels: 20x10, 5x114.3, +42 Offset Rear Tyres: Lexani LX9100 (approx 50% tread remaining) Rear Tyres Size: 255/35/R20 Manufacturer's URL: http://www.vertiniwheels.com/images/wheels...y/hennessey.htm Price: $1500ono (These cost $3200 new) Location: Western Sydney Contact: Please send me a PM if interested and we'll take it from there Photos: Sorry about the crappy phone quality pictures!
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Conveniently, I will be there on my Honeymoon during this time. I've convinced the boss that we should do Tokyo Autosalon on the Sunday Is it possible to prepurchase tickets or will I have to just brave the long lines with everyone else?
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R32 Gtst Rims Wont Fit My Bolt On Spacers?
d0p3y replied to greensa14's topic in Suspension, braking, tyres and drivetrain
I've got some sort of bolt-on spacers that came with my S14 from Japan and they fit with R32 GTS-t stockers no problem. That said, I've never bothered to run them because the GTS-t rims fit just fine without them. -
Hey All, I've got some Rays Duralumin lock nuts here and a set of R32 GT-R factory wheels which I intend to use for the occasional track day. Will these nuts be ok with these rims? I have heard reports that the nuts are sometimes not compatible with certain rims so I would like to investigate before taking it out to Wakie. Last thing I want is a wheel coming off Cheers, Ryan
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I'm a bit divided on the R35 actually. I haven't driven it at the track but on the freeway and through the twisties in Japan I felt like you would need to push this car really hard to get good feedback out of it. It's a weapon no doubt, but I almost felt like the car was doing all the work for me when it came to the corners. The drive wasn't as involving as I'd hoped - maybe it would have been more involving if I had pushed the car even harder than I did but without a race track to test this theory it shall remain a mystery to me.
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Nismo Festival was great, car park was worth the admission! So many nice cars. I've got lots of pics but I will upload them once I'm back home in another week. BTW nice to meet you Jeff, I was the guy who also jumped on the wrong end of the train and saw you again at Nismo fest. Realised it was you after the fact I've spent lots of money on stuff too but perhaps thankfully it has been hard to find stock of a few bits I wanted so I'm not over budget yet. Made the trip out to Yashio Factory for some pink bits for my Sil too Anyhow mega-update in a week with R35 hire car adventure pics too.
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Speak to Daniel @ Platinum PPI http://www.platinumcarsecurity.com/ http://www.platinumcarsecurity.com/Contact.htm He's got a lot of good options and he's very good at making tricky unique installs.
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Great colour choice, what a fabulous car. Congrats on the awesome new addition to the family!
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My tickets arrived this morning - a MASSIVE thank you to Marcus!! Can't wait - not long to go now!
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If there's no reasonable alternative suggested by those in the know here... I am going to look at getting them sent to someone in Japan then posted back over here. If it comes to this I'll let you know, I have no issues with including yours with my lot if need be. Tickets are available on the day apparently but I don't wanna risk that. I'm not flying over there then driving all that way only to find it's sold out at the door.
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Anyone going to point me in the right direction for tickets or what? I can't read or write Jp so how do I go about it???
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Pls let us n00bs know the best place to purchase our tickets from, too
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That's never going to drive the same again it would have bent lots of shit... part it out and start again
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I fail to see how your shit posts are helping to pay the bills either. If the moderators have an issue with him giving us a heads-up on the new DVD then let them deal with it. It's not like he's trying to shift dodgy iPhones or cheap shit china import parts. At least this production gives something back to the community and if we fail to support it, then it won't be around long hence we're back to square one - bored. I'm sure you don't work for free so if the Motive DVD team happen to make any cash off what they're doing good luck to them. Anyway on a lighter note, I've watched all 3 DVD's so far and enjoyed. Great coverage of everything with minimum bullcrap. Can't wait to see what else is coming up. The sponsor plugs are a bit obvious but without sponsors nobody gets paid I guess