Bakadesu!

Bob, good to see you're still at it. (I was in the purple 180SX at the Skylines Australia skidpan day a while back). I'd say: Take some concentrated coolant and distilled water. Get some cotton gardening gloves if you're going to change tyres. Take some wet-wipes as well. It sucks getting grease and stuff on your steering wheel (as well as being unsafe). Buy some racing gloves. You only have to get blisters once before it seems like a good idea. Take a look under your car before a session to see if anything is leaking out after the last session (I noticed burst caster rod bushings this way). Make sure your battery is secure, since scrutes always check this first. Take out your floormats. benm is right. Make sure you let your brakes and other stuff actually cool down on the cooldown lap. I just had my front rotors machined recently after they warped from a trackday at Wakefield because I didn't let them cool down. Ask people stuff. I asked a lady who drives an awesome (and loud) dark blue RX-7 to show me the right line on the circuit map at Wakefield, and the next session, my average lap time went down almost half a second.

Ooh, that second one is great! There was this awesome pic in last year's D1 Grand Prix yearbook of Nomuken's R34 drifting in front of sakura blossoms...funny how something that seems like it belongs on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy can be so cool. Wabi sabi ne.

Put me down for a space, Pete.

Anna Miller's?

Cheers.

I haven't lived there, just visited, so I didn't have a chance to get anything like that happening. I milked the "he's foreign, so of course he doesn't know what he's doing" concept for all it was worth, which is fun for a little while, but it was the only way to learn. You know those little sugary coloured things you delicately eat with tea instead of putting sugar in it? You only eat one whole and make a loud crunching sound as you do so once, until you see one of these expressions --> :nowigetit Then you don't do it again. :Oops: Which reminds me...at the recent Drift Nationals in Melbourne, I walked up to Tezuka Tsuyoshi (D1 driver and Shachou of Kid's Heart workshop) and asked him, in Japanese, what he thought of Aussie drifting, and actually got a decent response (We're used to the speed, but need more practice, apparently), and that was the first time I ever successfully spoke Japanese, to a Japanese person who spoke no English. Bwahahah, thankyou, thankyou. :thankyou:

The HPI car's stripe is a copy of the Mines stripe, I think --> CLICK!

Love that first one...

I've got the 180SX version of the PEII with a high-flow cat and bigger front pipe. It gave a good torquey increase in mid to high-range revs (doesn't feel choked at high revs anymore) and it's nice and quiet around town. Still plenty loud when you open it up though.

Haha! That's me, with the white cap on and the videocamera, right in the middle of that pic --> http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/at...achmentid=12428

Really glad to hear you got it back...but my only advice would be to not park near Norton Street if you can help it. I once parked my Mum's car with my bike in the back, covered with a blanket. Came back ten minutes later and caught a little bastard pulling it out. I'm almost sorry I shouted from a distance, which gave him time to run... Try a Brant or Autowatch alarm/immobiliser. Anything that insurance companies like...

I give "the chin". Requires less commitment, just in case they're not the waving type.

TOP END:boinkcar: Try the video section.

Speaking of Japanese schools...do they still wear buruma, or is that an anime-only thing now?

Hooray...I'm going to make that kirei hanami set and get drunk under it.

Geez, I actually competed in it, and your rundown of the day was better than my memory. Funny thing about the cupholders is that the scrute made me take mine off.

Thanks...not sure when I can make use of it though. :Oops:

Nah, he's a funny keunt. He pulls all sorts of stunts on those Option videos, hiding people's spare drift wheels, poking girls with a kendo stick and going through their bags and stuff. Not to mention busting into their houses while they're in the bath. Also, don't forget he let a guy he pulled off the street drive his D1 car, which the guy then promptly drifted into a grass verge, smashing the front bar.

Heheh. I just noticed that on the Option video coverage of the D1 USA round, you can see Nomuken signing a guy's shirt. He draws the Uras mascot and writes "baka da!" (You're an idiot!) next to it. Smartass.

It seemed to depend on the car. I'm running stock power and wasn't constantly linking corners, so one set lasted the whole day, as they did for lots of other people. However, guys who had lots of power and smoked it a lot (like the Autostyle Skylines) and those who were linking corners and doing sway drifts down the straight (like fatz) needed more than one set.

More money for tyres.

Good stuff fatz...I'll be along again I reckon. Last time was top fun. Nothing more dramatic than drifting in a thunderstorm.

I was walking down a backstreet in Kyoto (near Gojo station, I think) and I saw a place with a sign out front that said "Luminous Nose". It wasn't even a shop either. :uhh:

I recall he was saying stuff like "yaro gaijin" on the Drift Tengoku video where they went to American Ikaten.

Damn right. I ain't never saying atashi again. :Oops: Bokubokubokuboku...