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Tatsumi PA/Wangan Photos!
Professional photographer Mr. Wolfgang Groeger-Meier was kind enough to share the following photos from the photoshoot that I was invited to a few weeks ago. Turns out some of these photos made it to...
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First Post for 2014... and the mod is...Clean Air??
Friends,Apologies for the vacation I took from updating the blog. Truth be told, it's been too cold here in Japan and with the occasional snowstorm, until today I'd only driven the car once this year....
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DTM-II Firmware "Update"
So a couple of Thursdays ago, I had some free time so I swung by Do-Luck.The main reason was to receive an "upgraded" DTM II.If any of you have recently bought the DTM II, don't worry - because I was...
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Windshield Washer Nozzles, Revisited - OEM vs. Fluidics vs. Mitsuba
Some readers will recall that, last year I experimented with these"fluidic" windshield washer nozzles.They DO work well, and are really inexpensive, but alas their fitment isn't quite right because the...
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R33 Skyline Service Manuals!
The other day I was looking online on Yahoo Auctions Japan when I stumbled upon this: What appears to be the entire set of R33 Skyline related service manuals, from 1993 until 1997, including of course...
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CUSCO Tension Rod Bar Installed/Impressions
So the other day, I realized I was over due for "shaken" - the biannual road inspection regime in Japan that is supposedly designed to get dangerous cars off the road, but in reality is a way to...
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A First: Professional Interior Detail (warning for those easily disgusted...)
Now this is going to be a tough post. Because the photographs won't do justice to the work done. As most know by now, I tend to keep my car clean. Very clean. But I've never taken my car to a...
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Tech Note: The R33 GT-R had ELECTRONIC SUPER HICAS + Yaw Rate Sensor!
So I've decided that, on occasion, I will do a "Tech Note" based on interesting stuff I find in those R33 service manuals I got recently.So today, let's talk about SUPER HICAS. In the technical/service...
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Mini Aero Project - OK So That Didn't Work... What Was I Thinking?
So in my quest to modernize the car, in addition to mechanical and electrical items, I stumbled upon this:Courtesy: http://parisworkingforart.wordpress.com/2010/06/06/lexus-lfa/This is the driver side...
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Fuse Tuning! (Yes Another Gimmicky Mod...Placebo effect?)
A few years ago, I read an article on "fuse tuning" in one of the many car /car parts magazines here in Japan.The whole concept was basically an extension of using gold plated fuses to improve the...
View ArticleBest Motoring (Keiichi Tsuchiya) Review of the Series 3 GT-R vs. Impreza WRX...
I'm still working on a bunch of posts on the R33 vs. R32 as well as some R33 trivia...in the meantime your patience is appreciated! I had found this video before (and posted it), but lost it when Best...
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A New Type of Roll Center Adaptor
So I took a day off today as I had some errands to run and stopped by Do-Luck again as they are only 5 minutes away from where I live.Looks clean as usual, right? Unfortunately not underneath!!They...
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R33 GT-R Design Trivia (Part 1 - Seats, Tail Lights and Headlights)
In doing research to discover how the R33 GT-R improved upon the R32 GT-R, I came across some interesting tidbits on the R33 - some items which even I had not thought about before, as well as some...
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R33 GT-R Design Trivia (Part 2 - Emblem, Steering Wheel and Gauges)
Continuing on the theme of interesting stuff I found out when researching how the R33 GT-R improved upon the R32 GT-R:The Emblem:Nissan’s design division has one division that specializes only in...
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R33 GT-R Design Trivia (Part 3 - Wheels and Tires)
Wheels:It's common knowledge that BBS Japan made the forged aluminum alloy wheels for R32, R33 and R34 GT-Rs. What is not as well known is that, in fact, the R33 GT-R wheels were based on the look of...
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How The R33 GT-R Improved Upon The R32 GT-R (Part 1 - Exterior...
So although I've previously explored the differences between the R33 and R34 GT-Rs, and discovered that while the running gear basically stayed the same, with improvements to body rigidity and...
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How the R33 GT-R Improved Upon the R32 GT-R (Part 2 - Engine, ATTESA ETS-PRO,...
Continuing from the previous post - (How the R33 GT-R Improved Upon the R32 GT-R (Part 1 - Aerodynamics and the High Traction Layout), the following items seem more mundane and evolutionary, versus...
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Back To Where It All Began...
So this past Sunday afternoon, I was driving around Yokosuka (where the US Naval Base is), when all of a sudden I heard something weird: like a fluid hitting something hot, repeatedly. It sounded like...
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Update #1 from Mine's....
So I finally got a call from Mine's Takayanagi-san to update me on my car.Here is what he told me that they've found so far:Apparently, they found most of the water in the cooling system, gone! So they...
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Flash Back Post - Aluminum Pedals
Since I haven't heard anything from Mine's since my last post, I've been trying to clean up parts of this blog. For example, I updated my Spec List page and realized that I had made some mods, and...
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