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Welcom to SAU's Japan Scrapbook. Here you'll find photos and comments from SAU members who either reside or visit Japan. The scrapbook is open to anyone with any photos they have of Japan, no matter how old or miscellaneous. Feel free to add any comments that may help the understanding of the associated picture, or any story/anectdote which you feel would compliment and add interest to the Scrapbook. This is by no means Nissan Skyline or even car related, but if the members choose to focus on those things it's up to them. Just a couple of things: - Please only use photos taken in Japan - Please keep questions related to the photos/posts themselves - If you have an unrelated question or comment, don't use this thread - Spam and unrelated posts will be deleted Some enquiries were made if a pinned thread could be made to showcase members Japan photos, so this is a result of that. It's a work in progress and although it's not a necessity, if possible, upload photos to the SAU gallery as the photos will be hosted and visible to all as long as SAU is around... lets keep the 'red x' to a minimum! -------------------------------------------- I'll get things rolling with a few photos I have lying around... This is the view of Kobe city from the front entrance of my apartment. I live 13 floors up in a building on Port Island which is a man made island in Osaka Bay. After the Great Hanshin earthquake in January 1995, some areas of the island sank into the bay, while other areas were flooded, giving rise to a rumour that eventually the whole island will sink into the bay. Not in our lifetime though... A 'reverse angle' of Kobe city (you can see Port Island in the background) taken from Herb Park, a park dedicated to all things herbs. There is a greenhouse on the side of the mountain which houses all sorts of tropical plants with a constant temperater of about 28 degrees celcius. The island that you can just see behind Port Island is Kobe Airport, a domestic airport built dispite the majority of local residents not wanting it. A really small can of beer. It cost 90 yen (almost A$1) and can be drunk in two mouthfuls. I'm not sure of the commercial value of such a small can, especially when most guys are searching for the biggest can they can find, but the novelty of drinking a tiny can of beer can't be denied. I bought a carton... A A31 Cefiro with C33 Laurel face. Theres an BNR32 GT-R front lip spoiler down there and an intercooler from a S13 Silvia/180SX... My inlaws house in northern Hyogo. They actually *own* 4 or 5 MOUNTAINS in the area, and sold one off to the government back in the mid-90s so they could build a new shortcut for the Sanyo expressway. They got a (dollar value) seven figure sum... This is the CH6311NP 'Washlet' by National (Panasonic). It's a bidet with 3 levels of power, heated seat and infra red sensor to prevent the bidet from working while no one is seated. This one is pretty cheap, there are others that flush automatically and close the lid after you're done. My wife chose this one because it was pink BNR32 GT-R by GT Shop Endless. Taken by me for www.7tune.com which will be back online shortly.

This info is outdated now, so I've unpinned it.

This is the best I could do without actually buying a catlogue for this thread, a few pics from a 1995 catalogue: The Parts you'd be interested in are the oil cooler, larger intercooler, stailess cat back exhaust and alloy wheels (17.0x9.0 +25). I'm not sure about suspension and brakes, but going by earlier Nismo catalogues there would be upgraded springs/shocks, better brake pads, heavy duty clutch, strut tower bars... alot of other minor bits too but not sure whether they'd help in reducing lap times.

I just saw a whole bunch of them the other day...

Modia wheels were most popular for their 'KT' version rim designed by Keiichi Tsuchiya, theres also another almost identical design called 'KS-05'. I tried searching for 'Pageant' but no luck. I couldn't find who the maker of Modia rims are, probably a parent company like Crimson Inc. etc... so definately a Japanese rim, but I wouldn't say they are especially rare and/or more special than other rims. If you're rims are different could you post up a pic? Attached pic is the Modia KT:

Beautiful engine... the carbon fenders and things are sweet too although never been a fan of unpainted carbon panels.

I think he meant Ikebana: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikebana

Support randoms on the internet hey... thats an awesome suggestion.

lol @ piglatin

Thanks Steve, I was actually going to add some pics of the TRD 2000GT to the 3000GT post but I couldn't find any decent sized ones.

OoooooooKKkkkkkkkaaaaay... Iiiiiiiii'llll just put my dictionary right back where it was and not click 'Add Reply'.... Too slow

Those attachments are gay

I've always wondered how you can post a link to a certain post thats down the bottom of a page...