Want to know how not to make an 70 metre long skid mark without meaning to?
Just follow these simple steps.
Don’t drive around at two in the morning. Don’t find a bit of road that has no other cars, oncoming traffic, parked cars or pedestrians. Don’t give the speedometer a bit of a workout.
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I received a call the other morning from Yuusuke Kitaoka asking if I’d like to go and watch some of his friends driving at Okegawa Sports Land.
Since his car has no rear seat, and his girlfriend Yuki was coming along too, I had to drive there as well. This wasn’t too much of a problem as far as I’m concerned, and Yuki actually ended up riding in my car anyway because I still have a comfortable factory seat on the passenger’s side.
Yes, his car does actually have registration, if you were wondering.
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If you’ve been wondering why there hasn’t been much of the Mark II on here recently, it’s because it was broken.
It’s fixed now.
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The latest Drift Tengoku magazine came out about an hour ago. “Why is Alexi posting this up?”, you may be asking. Well…
ドリ天のお客さん！ＮＯＲＩＹＡＲＯへ世こそ！アレクシと申します。
ドリ車好きの方ですか？私も！
右へ見えたら、ちょっと日本語があります。その上には、「探すの箱」です。ろまじでなんかタイプして。たといえば「mazda」や「fuji speedway」や「ae86」。
ちゃんと「この記事を読む 」をクリックしてね！
Tokyo had its first decent snowfall of the season the other night. Here’s how the Mark II looked at about midnight. By this afternoon, most of the snow had disappeared.
It’s still really cold though! Hurry up and be summer…
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I really like taking photos, but I like drifting too. The one thing that’s pretty much impossible to do though, is combine them both and take a decent panning shot of yourself while you’re drifting.
A whole lot of static photos of the Mark II would be kind of boring, so Andy from Powervehicles recently supplied me with some pics that he took on Ebisu’s Nishi Course and at Nikko Circuit.
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You’re all going to have to wait until next week to hear about the little competition I’m running. I’ve been working as well as getting ready for Ebisu’s Drift Matsuri this weekend, which I should have already left for if it weren’t for a little problem I had.
Let’s just say that I’ve learned a lot about 1JZ coilpacks in the past couple of days.
At least you can look forward to some photos from Matsuri next week.
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It’s too late to post anything more about today, so I’ll just put up a pic of the best part.
Wait until you see the car, though.
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Once again, my posing was better than the result…in a way!
My lack of practice on Minami really showed, but by the second practice session, I managed to link the course at least a few times, even though the car kept bogging down in the middle of the corner.
There was nothing really wrong with what I was doing, but I never really got a single good run in from beginning to end. It was always either good entry, good speed, no angle or bad entry, bad speed, awesome angle or bad entry, straighten, then too much angle etc.
I found out a while ago that the Mark II was automatic from the factory, having since been converted to manual. I have a suspicion that there is something going on with the automatic diff and the relatively spaced-out gears in the R154 which is making the car not suited to Minami. It seemed to work great on Kita though, which is what made it so annoying. I’ve heard that the JZX81 automatic crownwheel ratio is the most desirable, but I’ll have to do some more research.
I can honestly say that some of the driving seen in this event, which is the lowest level of D1 I might add, was the sort of thing you’d have seen in D1 a couple of years ago. The winner of the event was Makoto Yoshimura (who drives a gold S15 that I don’t have any pictures of) who almost exclusively practices on the Minami Circuit. It really shows.
I have a lot of work to do…
12 CommentsAfter last weekend’s false start, this was a lot of fun, even if the battery ran out almost immediately and I couldn’t film any more. This video was from Thursday morning when I was still messing around with toe and tyre pressure settings.
Even though the car feels a lot more familar now after two whole days of driving it, I still haven’t had the chance to practice on Minami Course for this weekend’s D1 Street Legal East. I might have to sit down with some Option DVDs with in-car video from D1 and do some image training on the couch…
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