As a nice round up to the coverage of Ebisu 2 weeks ago, Adam at 7Tune has been nice enough to put together an article on the car. Plenty of good pics and words. Thanks again!
you’ve got 2 tickets….
…to the gun show!
Thanks to Russ at RE Xtreme for tossing this video together from the footage he took last weekend:
Man I need to go WAY faster!
Thanks to Yuta for the pics. It was cool chilling for a minute:
Thanks again! And Benson your a crappy matchmaker!
Thanks to Dino for some nice shots and words at Speedhunters:
And also Adam at 7Tune for his coverage:
And also, Remi from Holland put together a video of the weekend, and you can see me for a sec @ 0:40. Cool video that captures the feeling of the weekend:
It was awesome meeting all you guys, and thanks for the coverage!
Sittin low for 15s!
Oem lip and sides always make me smile
Nakamura, 1st place super class Meihan MSC:
Teramachi, 1st place expert class Meihan MSC on Stance GR+Pro:
that the Spirant NB is nearing it’s debut after quite a lot of work. I’m looking forward to it! Sunday is Roadster Fest at Honjo, so I await the pics! I hear it’s got some boost now as well…
While at the track (same as the previous post) I took the 86 out for a few laps. After getting a bit comfortable, I decided to give it my all….only to be left stuck on track after a quick 2-3 upshift. The car was at idle and the throttle was stuck to the ground; I was really confused. After the quick tow back into the pics, this is what we found:
Yea, thats what it looks like. The throttle pulley broke clean in half. This actually happened last year while at Suzuka, but after welding it (you can see the welds) we thought it wouldn’t ever happen again. I wonder if this is a common problem on these thirty year old cars. Anyway, I was feeing really bad that the car broke with me behind the wheel and had been looking forward to tandem with the car for the rest of the day. I was ready to head out myself, when I saw Masa putting in some work…and then I heard he yell over “fixed it!” This is what I found:
The previous video I posted, the entire time the throttle was rigged up like this. It made the throttle open 50% or a quick snap to 100% if you really pushed the pedal down……crazy.
