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Welcome mate. Best Stagea is best Stagea. How is it driving a correct hand drive vehicle driving on the right? The Japanese do the opposite here and they've made parking boom gate ticket things on both sides to cater for LHD and RHD cars, as there's so many of them (mostly German but there are quite a few American cars too).

Pop-out door handles can get stuffed by the way

The BMW Supra looks unique IMO. As does the Mazda Roadster/MX5 RF, but agreed for the most part. What was that design limitation for pedestrian safety in a collision where the bonnet height had to be "x" percentage higher than the top of the wheel arch? I swear there was some guideline that was imposed and the end result was that all cars now had huge wheel arches and droopy bonnets that slope down to the headlights area making them all appear conformist. The Prelude suffers from that too. The Toyota Crown Sports and Ferrari Pre-Meringue also spring to mind.

The Prelude doesn't look that bad without all that lens distortion in those pics. Makes it look disproportionate when it isn't. Actually I kind of liked it at the Osaka Auto Messe earlier this year.

The car and the 33GT-R wheels look great. I can't remember if spacers were needed for these but the offset looks perfect for the GTS25t.

Some more info I found. These are the last entries Yoshikiyo Fujii made on his blog before he passed away in 2009: http://blog.livedoor.jp/fujii_dynamics/ And finally this is where the workshop was situated: https://maps.app.goo.gl/HhTPtHzt3WVcBTiEA

As Duncan mentioned it's likely a remapped ECU, like the the one listed in the link I post earlier: https://minkara.carview.co.jp/userid/444260/car/444612/2099320/parts.aspx He quoted 444PS with an unopened engine and twin GT2510s @ 1.1bar boost... sounds about right?

Not personally familiar with the shop but I've been in Japan since 2000 and heard about and seen Fuji Dynamics cars at some events back around that time. They were one of the GT-R tuners that go overshadowed by HKS, Mines, Autech Tsukada etc with not a lot of coverage in the media, so not surprising that info is hard to come by.

This is what I could find on Minkara which has at least something on pretty much anything to do with the Japanese car industry. Yoshikiyo Fuji president of Fuji Dynamics memorial service review in August 2009 (at the time of his death): https://minkara.carview.co.jp/userid/380062/blog/14461568/ The Fuji Dynamics drag R33 GT-R was revived in April 2014: https://minkara.carview.co.jp/userid/781303/blog/32964763/ Fuji Dynamics drag JZZ30 Soarer: https://minkara.carview.co.jp/userid/380062/car/287607/1548806/3/photo.aspx#title Fuji Dynamics BNR34 GT-R: https://minkara.carview.co.jp/userid/300083/car/195676/609329/5/photo.aspx#title Plenty of Fuji Dynamics parts are still in use over the years on many cars, particularly the stainless steel exhausts, twin plate clutches and CPUs that can be seen in Minkara: https://minkara.carview.co.jp/search/?q=フジイダイナミクス&c=101&st=0 I also found a mention in Carboy magazine about the BNR33 GT-R drag car from 1999. It had all HVAC including A/C still fitted (A/C condenser and radiator were moved to the boot) and it ran a 9.7 sec quarter mile. Somewhat of a legend among GT-R and drag enthusiasts then and now. If you're wondering if it was a reputable shop, then yes it was.

The detail level is about right for the money they charge for the full kit... AU$21.00 each issue, 110 issues for a total of $2,300 (I mentioned $2.2K in the first post when the exchange rate was better). $20/week is doable... 😐

Before: After:

Issues 11 - 21 Finally got around to building a growing pile of weekly issues/parts and taking some photos. I did a bit of detail painting focusing on the fuel rail and injectors... these were originally all black plastic and looked quite unrealistic compared to the other parts. Also used some Tamiya panel line accent colour to give the whole cylinder head and surrounding parts a slightly weathered 'just run in' look to it. I've been following another Japanese guy's build and he's done the same more or less. Also got a 1/8th scale number plate set to replace the GT-R Nismo plates that came with the kit, to go together with the 'just run in' theme.

Zoomed in they look like oil paintings

Went to a drift practice day at a local circuit (held on the reserve parking area behind the grandstand) for the first time in about 15 years. Some kei cars were drifting as well, a not so surprising Suzuki Carry truck, and two 1st gen Daihatsu Copens that were converted to rear wheel drive(!) using Daihatsu Boon X4 transfer case, prop shaft and rear diff, obviously omitting the front driveshafts. They looked really fun to slide. I heard that they cost "about half" as much as a Nissan Silvia etc to run. On the track 'Tech M' a local BMW tuning garage had a customer track day. Mainly recent models but there was one E36 which looked ancient among all the current models. It was cool watching the drifting and then turning around and seeing random people thrashing their M3/4s central-circuit-drift-practice-2025-05-18-long-yt.mp4

I prefer it with those wheels (sacrilege?) 😋 Here's a photo of a fully original one for reference. The price is $350K....

That M3 looks like it handles so well, initial slight understeer on turn in followed by oversteer which is cancelled out as steering returns to centre. Looks like such a fun car to drive. In comparison the Skyline and Sierra look like they understeer more and thus need more heavier steering inputs...?

Looks close enough to fool a few people into thinking it was a genuine 400R I'm sure. Well done 👍

Yes they're fairly common, especially where there's kids around like in an apartment complex. The kids will see the characters and then (hopefully) read the sign that says not to enter because it's dangerous. I've seen them on busy roads where kids wouldn't be hanging around as well, but not every time. It could be down to the city/town where it is and how cutesey (lol) they want to present their construction sites

Saw this abandoned Honda Fit in a carpark that was getting repaved... they just 'cut around it' and continued with the job! There's a number of reasons why the car could have been abandoned, but as for the construction company, legally they don't have permission to move the car from the owner (who has moved on and can't be contacted) so all they can do it just leave it there with enough space around it so it won't get damaged.

I can get 84896-RHR20 and ship it to you from Japan, but what do you consider a reasonable price? They cost 9,200 Yen from Nissan back in 2017.

I had this same experience going from a set of no name tyres that were on a set of good wheels (Enkei RPFs) to some Potenza RE-11s (this was a few years ago). The wet grip in particular was so much higher that it was almost scary considering how dangerous the old tyres were in comparison. The expense of the tyres also made me want them to last longer so drove accordingly. Wife happy. So now she only 'lets' me buy some flavour of Brigestones...

"Here's how it works: Buy a set of four Pirelli tyres." Hey I think these guys are on to something 🤣

My son saw this Porsche 904 in Yodoyabashi in Osaka, not sure if it's the plastic or fibreglass version 767605763.559358.mp4

On my daily early morning walk I take few different routes to get to the top of a locally famous hill (and park land) and on the way up there's these two rusted out - but not abandoned - Nissan Laurels. I've lived in this area for the last 10 years and always seen both of them parked there whenever I passed. But checking on Google street view it shows that both cars have been there from at least 2015, and the one on the left (reverse parked) has been there since at least 2011... There's a sign in the back window of the car on the right that says in English (not Japanese) "Do not touch - Not for sale". So there's probably been a few people asking about them over the years. I took photos of these Laurels last year and posted them up in the Japan Scrapbook thread at the time but this time the grass has been cut and can get a better view of the cars, which also revealed a chain linking the suspension arms of both cars together as a simple anti-theft deterrent.

Just want to say that the wheel choice is... choice 😅 What a beautiful example of a tastefully modded 32GT-R