Real JDM Engines

Nick — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 05:58:40 +0000

It has been a while sine I have written on High Performance JDM Engines, but that is about to end. Since I actually live here in Japan, I will be posting about various tuned cars I find. When possible, I will be interviewing the driver/tuner and giving all the details of each car.

The first post will be of a Toyota Starlet Glanza. For those who don’t know, the Starlet was a car that was popular for it’s small size and turbo charged engine. I should mention this isn’t actually his car here. This one is pretty much stock.

We are in rainy season here in Japan, so I need to wait for a sunny day to take some good pictures.

JDM AE86- Intitial D’s Toyota Sprinter Trueno?

Nick — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:27:10 +0000

When I lived in Tokyo I used to see amazing cars all the time. Everything from exotics (Lamborghinis, Ferraris, etc) and of course a huge number of JDM cars (Supras, GTRs, RX7s, Civic Type Rs). I even had an AE86 that was parked just down the street from where I lived. Not to mention the guy who owned the business next door owned an Mitsubishi Evo X (though he said he preferred the 8 and 9). However, now that I live in a more remote part of Japan, Seeing tuned cars is much more rare. So when I came across this Toyota AE86 and happened to have my camera, I took some pictures.

It looks like the owner was going for the same color pattern as Initial D’s 86 with the black hood. The car was gone when I came back out of the store, so I didn’t get to find out what type of work he had done to it or what it sounded like. Anyways, here are the pics. Let me know what you think.

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