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Monday, January 29, 2007
SS Park Circuit-Pete's FC Gets a Facelift!
Hey Drift fans!
Yesterday the "gaijin drifters" were at SS park drift circuit on a what started out a great sunny day. SS park circuit as you may know is only 15 minutes from my place here in Nihonmatsu city Japan. This day my mate Pete brought out his freshly washed and waxed purple headed monster Mazda Rx7 FC3S for a bit of a drift. It was his first time on SS park circuit so it took him a bit of time to get used to....as you're about to find out!
This is Pete's FC in the beginning. Just washed and waxed and ready to drift. If he only knew what was about to happen a couple hours later, I don't think Pete would have gone to the trouble to wash it!
We were sharing the track with only a few others. 2 of which were girls in Silvias who were really good! We would never had known they were girls by the way they were drifting...they were kickin ace. Meanwhile...for the first hour or so, I was enjoying watching Pete spin out on about every 3rd corner. The FC's short wheelbase is a tad touchy around SS's long corners. I soon found that out when Pete gave me a burl around in it. I was worse than him. I really sucked bad. I really don't have an excuse except it was my first time in the drifters seat for about 5 months and my first time drifting at SS park and it was Pete's FC which I've drifted a whole 4 or so times! It was very touch but a heap of fun! The 13B rotary with boost turned up is like driving a go cart! And sounds like one too!
This is what happens when you put 195 tires on 8.5 inch wide rims with not high enough air pressure on the front of a drift car and get huge angle at high speed. Or maybe Pete just wanted to prove that his wheels are chrome even on the inside!
CRUNCH!!! I must have been a bad navigator or Pete was getting a little too comfortable around the back hairpin...trying to skim the paint off the guard rail "Initial D" style when we both went "OH CRAP!" and added a new dent to the armco and lighted the front end of Pete's FC by a quick removal of his black FRP bumper. I think he was planning a face lift for the FC anyway. Good on ya Poit! At least you have a good drift "battle damage" story to tell now!
That's all for this update folks! See ya next time. Don't forget to subscribe to my mailing list in the top corner to get free email alerts of updates on my web site!
Stu and Pete "Gaijin Drifters"
www.DriftInJapan.com
(Photo's courtesy of Pete)
Yesterday the "gaijin drifters" were at SS park drift circuit on a what started out a great sunny day. SS park circuit as you may know is only 15 minutes from my place here in Nihonmatsu city Japan. This day my mate Pete brought out his freshly washed and waxed purple headed monster Mazda Rx7 FC3S for a bit of a drift. It was his first time on SS park circuit so it took him a bit of time to get used to....as you're about to find out!
This is Pete's FC in the beginning. Just washed and waxed and ready to drift. If he only knew what was about to happen a couple hours later, I don't think Pete would have gone to the trouble to wash it!We were sharing the track with only a few others. 2 of which were girls in Silvias who were really good! We would never had known they were girls by the way they were drifting...they were kickin ace. Meanwhile...for the first hour or so, I was enjoying watching Pete spin out on about every 3rd corner. The FC's short wheelbase is a tad touchy around SS's long corners. I soon found that out when Pete gave me a burl around in it. I was worse than him. I really sucked bad. I really don't have an excuse except it was my first time in the drifters seat for about 5 months and my first time drifting at SS park and it was Pete's FC which I've drifted a whole 4 or so times! It was very touch but a heap of fun! The 13B rotary with boost turned up is like driving a go cart! And sounds like one too!
This is what happens when you put 195 tires on 8.5 inch wide rims with not high enough air pressure on the front of a drift car and get huge angle at high speed. Or maybe Pete just wanted to prove that his wheels are chrome even on the inside!
CRUNCH!!! I must have been a bad navigator or Pete was getting a little too comfortable around the back hairpin...trying to skim the paint off the guard rail "Initial D" style when we both went "OH CRAP!" and added a new dent to the armco and lighted the front end of Pete's FC by a quick removal of his black FRP bumper. I think he was planning a face lift for the FC anyway. Good on ya Poit! At least you have a good drift "battle damage" story to tell now!That's all for this update folks! See ya next time. Don't forget to subscribe to my mailing list in the top corner to get free email alerts of updates on my web site!
Stu and Pete "Gaijin Drifters"
www.DriftInJapan.com
(Photo's courtesy of Pete)
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Monday, January 08, 2007
First Drift Day for 2007!
Today was the first time I went out for a drift...well..I just went to watch. Today's drift session was at SS park circuit here in Nihonmatsu. The opposite direction from Ebisu. It's free to go and watch the drifting at SS but it costs 1500yen to enter ebisu.
I was only there for an hour or so because It was getting pretty damn cold out there! It is the middle of winter here you know!? It's a public holiday today so I knew there'd be a few drifters out and there were, but not a lot, just a few. A couple of s13 silvias, a chaser but he left soon after I got there, ae86 sprinter hatch (or corolla if you're from USA), a laurel with a rb26!!! and a couple of others. Check out the pics!
This is the Laurel with the RB26!! Pretty nice and he was floggin it around the track too! The track was really wet as you can see, melted snow, so they could slide for a really long distance. Was cool to watch!!
A beater ae86. Was really rough and the guy wasn't the most experienced driver. But with a naturally aspirated 4AGE and a wet track, it would have been awesome fun. I wanted to have a go! NA 4AGE + AE86 + wet track = Ultimate Drift Experience.
This white 180sx or 240sx if your in the US, was also very nice. Sounded awesome too.
This orange silvia s13 was pretty much immaculate. I asked the guy how long he had it for and he told me he just finished putting it together. Wide body kit, Trust?? front mount intercooler, etc. The paint actually has metallic flakes in it. Yes, that is snow in the background!
This purple s13 silvia is a bit of a drift thrasher. He didn't really care about his car..as you can probably see. His rear bumper fell off and he chucked it away off the track. He eventually ended up drifting off the course at the far end of the track and broke his tie rod end. Luckily he brought the car on a trailer so he could tow it home. I guess he expected to break it or was trying to. Yep, he went off course here big time too.
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