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Got back yesturday from my work experience in Japan.

To say it was amazing would be an understatment. Lived a dream. I got to work with awesome cars, with awesome people, in an awesome country. I didnt get as many photos as i wanted, but ill put some up soon.

Thanks for any advice that I recieved from here, everything went smoothly :P

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Ive whacked some photos on the members gallery.

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/photopost...00/ppuser/10177

Very nice: damn it makes me jealous. Was language much of a problem? When you have a little time, would you mind posting up a 'photo diary' type post with some commentry?

Cheers,

Lucien.

Great stuff Topi! Yes, please post up a "photo diary" with comments if you can :D

Btw, did you see an "XR6T" engine (from the Australian built "Falcon XR6T" - 4.0 inline 6 turbo twin cam monster) there at JUN? Theres some speculation as to what happened to it (or if indeed they had one?)

Thanks guys. Im not sure if I took enough photos for a photo diary, but ill draft one out and see what its like.

The language barrier was a bit of a pain, but you work around it.

As for the XR6T. Well there were about 3 engines kept heavily covered up. One I got a sneak of had a TVR V8 label, but I didnt see a XR6T. There were many inline 6s floating around though, mostly RB26.

Yup RX3.

JUN auto mechanic is actually very large. Theres the main hall (with the 240 etc in). Behind that is the bodyshop. Theres a fairly large section of machines for final grinding of cam profiles, flywheels and bores etc. And theres another large hall, basically empty exept for a new impreza being converted to a RWD D1 car for the owner of Ebisu circuit.Theres the engine room, and shop floor. Also the dyno.

As for the staff, they are most of the mechanics. 2 were at a race meeting with some 700bhp ish Evos (one "super lemon" Evo, if you know JUN cars).

On that site, are maybe 20 machinists. At the main machine shop are maybe 30 operators, and 10 office staff.

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