And an old video to wrap up:
This past Saturday, I was invited to a get together for my friend Teramachi to celebrate his recent marriage. Teramachi actually drives this S13 I posted about way back, here. A few weeks ago he got 2nd place in the advanced class at the Meihan round of MSC. His car:
So the night turned into a huuuuge party and we had around 20-25 people, all drinking, talking, having a good time. At one point, I turned to my right and sitting next to me was Mr. Takatori, driver for the SA-Kyoto FD team (and former D1 driver). We talked for a while about FD and such…best of luck to him in Vegas!
It turns out all of these guys are into cars, and drive or used to…in fact I’m told a few of them used to complete with the likes of NOB and Orido back in the day. I guess a few of them are in those old DriftClub vhs tapes (before Doriten) and they often went to BM Hai comps..cool!
I also found a new favorite drink… Tantakatan Shiso Shochu:
After dinner, those who didn’t drink (and me since I wasn’t going to be driving) headed to Sasayama for some touge. We stayed for a good 4 hours, as it was raining people didn’t have to worry about tires (or making too much noise). It was a fun night indeed!
Hiro actually just got a new V8…from Hasselgren! According to Hiro not only does the 800hp really kick ass, but the weight loss going to the aluminum V8 from the iron 2JZ really helped the weight balance of the car and allows him to hold deeper angles better. Check out this short clip from FD @ Englishtown:
Sounds amazing! Best of luck to Hiro and the rest of the Drift Pro guys, they are some of the most kickback folk in all of US drifting!
and some new flavor…Rakim, Nas, and KRS One will always be three of the best on the mic
“When they do make the car you like, your chips ‘aint right…by the time you can afford it the car ‘aint important”….nice. Thanks to Logan over at OG for the find.
So a few weeks ago the guys at TF/Origin/Stance sent me some stuff along with my helmet I needed for the Rally…one of them was something I had almost forgot about completely…SPAM!
Of course no care package containing Spam can be left w/o sweet nothings written all over it!
So I had been hesitant to actually eat the Spam, only because..well..it made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside! But I decided that actually being inside me is where it belonged today. So I set out to re-create a typical lunch at Touge Factory….complete with thin, crispy slices if Spam covered in mass amounts of ketchup over a steaming plate of rice (damn that sounds good!)…..but as I was cooking the meat, I realized I was out of said rice so I was forced to improvise. I tossed an egg in there with some pepper and threw it all on some bread and gave it a healthy red gold covering. The end result:
It was quite good, but sadly my electric stove doesn’t get hot enough to really crisp the Spam to my liking. But I have 3/4 of a can left and I shall make it happen…a small gas burner may be in order. Oh and one for pic, just for Eric….EAT IT LIKE AN APPLE!
Thanks again Mike / Dave / Bruce / Earl / Mo / Scott !!!!
Graphite Gray Evolution X with Stance GR+ coilovers
Enkei RPF-1 SBC 18×10.5 +15 (!!!!)
265/35 Dunlop DZ101 Direzza
Origin FRP side and front canards
And this latest video from RiskyDevilxT2 Films = me wishing I was in Chicago right now with my car….















